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Flash Face Off

It’s the famous Flash Face Off open mic spoken word live reading evening of stories and nonsense. Yay!
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Write A Novel Festival 2025

Peek behind the curtain of the publishing industry and find out what you need to know on the journey to becoming (and staying) a published author.
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Write A Novel Festival 2025

How do you navigate life and writing? How many drafts is the right number? How the hell do you even write a novel in the first place? Get all your novely questions answered here!
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Write A Novel Festival 2025

A mid-month check-in support group type of affair for anyone writing a wild draft in June.
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Write A Novel Festival 2025

How do we make magic in stories feel like it could actually happen? How do we suspend readers’ disbelief and help them roll with the weird?
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Write A Novel Festival 2025

The iconic “hero’s journey” is one way to structure a novel—but it is not the only one. What can Ursula K. Le Guin’s feminist essay “The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction” tell us about story structure?
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Write A Novel Festival 2025

Join us in this part-theory, part-exercise, all-interactive workshop to expand your characters' inner narrative and enhance your story's outer narrative.
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Write A Novel Festival 2025

Sometimes you just need to sit down and blat out a whole bunch of words - here's how!
Free

Flash Face Off

It’s the famous Flash Face Off open mic spoken word live reading evening of stories and nonsense. Yay!
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Short fiction

Learn how to write flash fiction. Simple, straightforward, step-by-step guidance on arting and crafting small stories that pack a big punch.
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Submit 2025

Need to know more about submitting to your writing? We've assembled a panel of experts from literary magazines and small presses to share their insights and advice with you.
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Do Things Series

A cosy and creative hour exploring how we keep on writing, even when we try to stop ourselves. Goal directed persistence FTW!
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Short fiction - Write A Short Story Festival 2025

All the tools you need to curate your own short story collection – from concept to completion.
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Short fiction - Write A Short Story Festival 2025

What happens to our writing when we slow down our reading and think critically about the stories in front of us?
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Short fiction - Write A Short Story Festival 2025

Exploring dialogue - how to make it fit the story, advance the plot and reveal character, and when to keep our character’s mouths shut!

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