Everything you need to get going, keep going, write and publish your stories
- 25+ creative writing courses
- Real life and online writing retreats
- Writing festivals and celebrations
- Live workshops and masterclasses
- Video library of classes
- The best community this side of the internet
Creative writing courses, live events, and also tea and swearing
Writers’ HQ is home to the most word-writing, tea-drinking, story-slinging, biscuit-dunking, productivity-boosting, super supportive writing community this side of the internet.
It’s by writers, for writers.
And it’s chock-full of in-depth, practical support and lessons on all aspects of writing, editing, productivity and publishing, from a huge library of online courses and workshops, to our regular live and online events.
PLUS direct access to the expertise of the community to make sure you reach your full potential as a writer.
Writers’ HQ will help you tell your story
And tell it really freakin’ well
- Learn how to write the stories you love, and have the confidence to send them into the big wide world
- Enjoy the knowledge and experience of a huge community of writers who help and support each other
- Shine a light on your process with hundreds of hours of creative writing tuition to help get you from start to finish
What’s included in a Writers’ HQ Gold Star Membership?
Omg so much stuff it’s absurd(ly good)
Writing Festivals and Special Events
We run big ol’ writing shindigs in January, April, June, September, November AND December, and Gold Star Members get it alllll. A bit like this:
- New Year Couch to 5k Words
- The Write A Short Story Festival
- The Write A Novel Festival
- Writerly Advent Shenanigans
- Writing as Resistance Festival
PLUS You get access to the entire back catalogue of workshops and events from previous festivals.
Live Retreats, Workshops and Masterclasses
Every single month, Gold Star Members get access to:
- 1 Online writing retreat
- 1 Online write-along
- 1 Writing masterclass from the genre, productivity or submit series
- The Flash Face Off live reading
- Every festival event during festival months
- 15% off real life retreats
PLUS You get access to the entire back catalogue of workshops and events from previous festivals.
25 Online Creative Writing Courses
A huge library of online courses so you can learn how to plot your novel, master the art of the short story, hone your editing skills, improve your writing habit, increase productivity, and send your stories into the world. Including the famous Plotstormers series.
The Writers’ HQ Community Forum
Only the best goddamn writerly place IN THE ENTIRE INTERNET. Find beta readers, accountability partners, advice, support, a place to commiserate your rejections and celebrate your wins, and shh also a place to procrastinate when you need.
⭐️ Sign up for an annual membership now and we’ll extend it until the end of 2025! ⭐️
What makes Writers’ HQ so awesome?
Everything you need
The incredible Writers’ HQ community offers an inclusive, welcoming, supportive, step-by-step, hand-holding environment, away from tiresome literary snobbery and grammar pedantry, for the many writers out there who feel as though they don’t fit.
We’re writers too
We know what you’re dealing with – the frustrations, the joys, the heartache, the endless urge to procrastinate, the crying hysteria at Tumblr memes about punctuation. And we’re working on our stories right alongside you.
Support is our M.O.
With thousands of WHQers all over the world, you can swap work for critique, swoon and flail and be caught by other writers who Just Get It, 24 hours a day. Oh yeah. We put the mm in community, y’all.
We love stories
It’s not just that we love them. It’s that we understand that they are important. Fom sci fi to lit fic, from trashy beach reads to obscure experimental weirdness, from police procedurals to high fantasy. All stories are needed and valued and just shut up and give them to us, ok? We demand MOAR STORIES.
No nonsense
Writers’ HQ is about doing the work. We don’t waft around waiting for the muse or talking endlessly about writing without actually doing any. We show up at our desk time and time again and get. shit. done. (I mean, we also dick around making tea and eating biscuits, but you get the idea).
We love you
Running Writers’ HQ is a legit dream come true and we freakin’ adore all the people who make it so awesome (that’s you guys). We’re here for you, we’re rooting for you, we live and breathe this accidental behemoth. So come on in, the water’s fine.
⭐️ You know what to do! Click the buttonnnnn ⭐️
Don’t just take our word for it. Here’s what our members have to say about Writers’ HQ…
Join the most word-writing, tea-drinking, story-slinging, biscuit-dunking, productivity-boosting, super supportive writing community this side of the internet
Freebie WHQer
£free
Zero Earth pounds! Always free awww yeah!
3 x creative writing courses
Monthly online writing retreat
The amazing WHQ community forum
Gold Star WHQer (monthly)
£20 per month
25 x in-depth creative writing development courses
Monthly specialised writing masterclasses
Masterclass video library
