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Build the writing life you want.
A creative practice full of joy and a portfolio of stories you love.
And a butt-tonne of tea and biscuits ALL THE TIME.
- Stop fucking about
- Start writing
- Feel great about it
Start writing. Keep writing. Get published.
Join the community that makes it happen
Master your craft
Over 25 in-depth creative writing courses covering everything from the shortest to the longest stories
Escape the grind
Grow your word count at our one-day real-life and online retreats
Be challenged
Stay motivated with writing festivals and challenges all year round
Sharpen your skills
Live workshops and expert-led masterclasses to help you hone your talent
Never miss a class
Learn at your own pace with our on-demand video library and workshop replays
Love and support
Stay inspired, supported, and seen in the most supportive writing community this side of the internet
Writers’ HQ is quite simply writer heaven. An inexhaustible source of knowledge, good advice and stimulation, this community is the perfect place to share passions and feed off of the positive energy of a truly wonderful bunch of human writerbeings.
– Terry H
Courses that cut the bullshit. Retreats that get words flying. A community that won’t let you quit.
- 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
Writers’ HQ isn’t just where stories get written. It’s where badass writers get brave, get unstuck, and get shit done.
It’s tea. It’s swearing. It’s thousands of writers cheering you on through every draft, deadline, and doubt.
It’s built by writers, for writers.
A no-bullshit community that actually gets what you’re going through
Hundreds of hours of writing tuition to take you from blank page to published piece
Live workshops, festivals, and retreats to keep your momentum high and your story moving
Instant access to 25+ courses on everything from plotting to publishing
WHQ has given me the courage and tools to turn a vague notion of trying to write into my driving passion, along with the support and wonderful company of the most amazing people I have ever encountered. There are no words for how much this has enhanced my life.
– Heather H
Writing festivals and challenges to keep you writing throughout the year
Get writing, stay writing, and learn from some of the best, with events including:
- Couch to 5k Words
- The Write A Short Story Festival
- The Write A Novel Festival
- Writing as Resistance Festival
- Write November
- Writerly Advent Shenanigans
Rack up your word count with writing retreats, workshops and masterclasses
- Online writing retreats
- Regular write-alongs
- Productivity workshop series
- Submission workshop series
- Flash Face Off Live
- Discounts on real life retreats
Learn your craft with a whopping 25 online creative writing courses
Learn how to plot your novel, master the art of the short story, refine your editing skills, build a creative practice that is joyful, consistent and productive.
(Includes the famous Plotstormers series!)
Go at your own pace in your own time with our on-demand video library
Can’t make it live or want to watch again? Our on-demand video library of writing workshops features incredible authors who will challenge you, take you places you hadn’t thought of, and most importantly, make you write.
Thanks to the wonderfully supportive WHQ community who have become real friends, I’m now a published writer with words appearing in over 18 countries. And I’ve finally finished that novel!
– Kirsti
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 joys, the frustrations, 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.
Join the most word-writing, tea-drinking, story-slinging, biscuit-dunking, productivity-boosting, super supportive writing community this side of the internet
Get started for free!
£0
Includes:
- Flash Face Off - the weekly writing challenge
- Flash Face Off Live spoken word night
- The WHQ Guide to Productivity
- Write A Tiny Novel
- The Writers' HQ community forums
Gold Star WHQer
£20 per month
Includes:
- Every festival and writing challenge throughout the year
- 25 x in-depth creative writing development courses
- Monthly specialised writing masterclass
- The full on-demand video library
- Access to the incredible Writers' HQ community
Gold Star WHQer
£190 one off fee
Includes:
- Save £50 on monthly membership
- Every festival and writing challenge throughout the year
- 25 x in-depth creative writing development courses
- Monthly specialised writing masterclass
- The full on-demand video library
- Access to the incredible Writers' HQ community
All prices in UK Pounds