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Be part of the most excellent, supportive, and productive community of writers, all on a mission to write really great stories

Writers’ HQ has everything you need to get going, keep going, plot, edit, unpick, rebuild, write your novel, and publish your stories.

(Also tea and swearing)

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WRITERS’ HQ HELPS WRITERS TELL THEIR STORIES

and tell them really freakin’ well

Learn to write novels and stories you love and have the confidence to send them into the big wide world

Take advantage of the knowledge & experience of a huge community of writers who want to 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 MEMBERS GET INSTANT ACCESS TO ALL THESE SUPER LOVELY COURSES

write a novel, write short stories, write poems, write anything with words and heart ❤️

PLOTSTORMERS
how to plot a novel
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SEVEN IDEAS IN SEVEN DAYS
learn to see, hear and think like a writer
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THE FIRST DRAFT
write your novel in six months
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PLOTSTORMERS II: THE EDIT
Deconstruct. Reconstruct. Turn your manuscript into something beautiful
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WRITING SHORT FICTION
small words with big impact
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MAKING PEOPLE
the characterisation masterclass
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TROUBLESHOOT YOUR NOVEL
figure out what’s wrong with your story and FIX IT!
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PUBLISHING 101: FIND AN AGENT
prepare your manuscript and learn what to expect
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PUBLISHING 101: THE QUERY
nail your query letter
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PUBLISHING 101: THE SYNOPSIS
learn how to craft a small but perfectly formed synopsis
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WRITING WITH CHILDREN
three part video series about how to write while parenting, without going mad
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COUCH TO 5K WORDS
shake off your literary ennui and get moving
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SHORT FICTION
MINI MASTERCLASS
a quick intro to big little stories
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DOS AND DON’TS OF SUBMITTING TO LIT MAGS AND COMPS
write a thing. submit a thing. get published
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Amazing journey of discovery ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I was a bit hesitant about doing an online course but I liked Writers’ HQ’s approach and the programme for plotstomers looked like the business. Over the last 6 weeks I have made such huge progress with novel. Really getting to grips with where story was going, characters’ motivation, that thing everyone mentions called “conflict”. The teaching material was excellent: just right amount and level. Support was good though I didn’t really get too involved with forum discussions as my head was buried in doing the plotting homework. Feel massively more confident now about actually writing the bloody novel. Will be going on to the next stage with Writers’ HQ.

Colette Batterbee

Plotstormers

WHAT MAKES WRITERS’ HQ SO AWESOME?

EVERYTHING YOU NEED

Hundreds of hours worth of creative writing courses covering plotting, editing, short stories, novel writing, productivity, characterisation, motivation, publishing, and getting through tricky times without losing your mojo.

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 a other writers who Just Get It, 24 hours a day. Oh yeah. We put the mm in community, y’all

WE LOVE STORIES

No seriously. We love all of them, from sci fi to lit fic, from trashy beach reads to obscure experimental weirdness, from police procedurals to high fantasy. All stories are important 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.

WRITERS’ HQ WRITERS CAN BE FOUND IN THESE AMAZING PLACES

Who *are* you super cool luminescent interdimensional writer beings of joy and wonder?

Writers’ HQ is run by Sarah and Jo, two micro-sized writers who could never quite get the thing they needed from the huge array of (largely brilliant) writing courses available. So they (we? It’s us! Hello! We’re writing this in the third person!) set out to provide 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.

Between them (us?) they’ve (we’ve?) got four degrees in literature, Shakespeare and creative writing (and maths, but we don’t discuss that one. It was a dark time), a vast portfolio of writing in various disciplines and a smattering of awards, predominantly for writing but also one for winning a secondary school beauty contest, aged 11. Guess who that was.

THE FOUR KICKASS FRONDS OF THE WRITERS’ HQ MEMBERSHIP

IN-DEPTH COURSES

Fifteen courses and counting, covering everything from how to have ideas, plotting, editing, short fiction, characterisation and getting published. Work at your own pace or find a course buddy on the forums, and bury yourself elbow deep in your work to figure out what your story is really about. (See all our courses here)

WRITING RETREATS

All Writers’ HQ members get a whopping FIFTEEN PERCENT off our procrastination-busting, biscuit-eating, word-churning one-day writing retreats that happen every week across the UK. (See all our retreats here)

LIVE Q&As

Advice, answers, and individual feedback for your specific questions with the periodic Live Q&A with Sarah and Jo.

MEMBERS ONLY FORUM

Get advice, swap work, flail, swoon, celebrate, discuss course topics and generally hang out in the private forums, exclusive to WHQ members.

GET INSTANT ACCESS TO WRITERS’ HQ COURSES AND MORE!

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