The Writers' HQ Write A Novel Festival

A whole month of novel writing, workshops, write alongs, community and tea drinking

Sunday 1 June – Monday 30 June 

For anyone who has a novel to write

Writing a novel is hard. So let's do it together!

The Writers’ HQ Write A Novel Festival will hold your hand and kick your butt through starting, middling and finishing your novel

Go broad and deep into craft and practice with a whole month of workshops from a specially curated gang of super awesome writers.

Plus with our regular write-alongs we’ll help you stay on track and build a writing practice that fits into your life and goals.

Also! The best writing community this side of the internet. OBVIOUSLY. Aww yeah!

The Sacred Writers’ HQ Promise

It’s going to be frikken awesome

What you'll do

Write a shonky-ass draft of your novel. (Some of it might even be good!)

Learn deep craft and practice from incredible authors

Fall in love with your writing

Drink a lot of tea and eat a lot of biscuits

Who you are

A human who loves stories and wants to write stories! You’ve been thinking about writing a novel, or you’re already working on one, or maybe you’ve written one already, but you want to find out more, deepen your craft, find more time, make each writing session more fulfilling, and finally get the infernal thing done. Oh, and you want to have fun and meet an awesome bunch of people while you do it.  

The Writers' HQ Write A Novel Festival 2025

A goddamn motherfracking awesome month of joyful novel-based writing and learning to shift your story up a gear and get your deeper into the magic of your fiction

This year's Write A Novel Festival event calendar

Sunday 01 June,
 12:00 pm BST
Sometimes you just need to sit down and blat out a whole bunch of words - here's how!
Monday 02 June,
 10:00 am BST
It can be hard to make time and space to write. That's why we'll write with you, side by side.
Wednesday 04 June,
 7:00 pm BST
Join us in this part-theory, part-exercise, all-interactive workshop to expand your characters' inner narrative and enhance your story's outer narrative.
Monday 09 June,
 10:00 am BST
It can be hard to make time and space to write. That's why we'll write with you, side by side.
Wednesday 11 June,
 7:00 pm BST
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?
Monday 16 June,
 10:00 am BST
It can be hard to make time and space to write. That's why we'll write with you, side by side.
Wednesday 18 June,
 7:00 pm BST
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?
Thursday 19 June,
 7:00 pm BST
A mid-month check-in support group type of affair for anyone writing a wild draft in June.
Monday 23 June,
 10:00 am BST
It can be hard to make time and space to write. That's why we'll write with you, side by side.
Wednesday 25 June,
 7:00 pm BST
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!
Friday 27 June,
 7:00 pm BST
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.
Monday 30 June,
 10:00 am BST
It can be hard to make time and space to write. That's why we'll write with you, side by side.

Ready? Get yourself a Gold Star Membership to access everything in the Write A Novel Festival

Monthly membership

£20/month. Cancel any time.

Annual membership

£190. One-off payment. Save £50

Once you hit the button, you’ll get a confirmation email, and we’ll send you the Zoom link an hour before the event. 



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If you don’t get an email, check your spam fist and then wang us a line on help@writershq.co.uk and we’ll leap into action with keenness and speed. 

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