The Writers' HQ Write A Novel Festival

Let's all write a novel!

June 2025

Events for The Writers' HQ Write A Novel Festival 2025 are to be announced sooooon!

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

Join Sarah, Team WHQ and a specially curated gang of super awesome writers for a whole month of writing, workshops, write-alongs, and lovely, lovely community.

Throughout June, the Writers’ HQ Write A Novel Month will give you the opportunity to explore everything you need to know about novel writing, from drafting, characterisation, editing and everything in between.

We’ll go deep and broad into craft and practice and we’re also going to challenge you to write a wild draft – that’s 1,000 words a day for the entire month of June and see what comes out the other side.

You can start at the beginning and write a story alongside other festival writers, or you can drop in and out depending on where you are with your writing.

Plus, through regular write-a-longs 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! It’s gonna be a-m-a-z-i-n-g.

Check last year's Write A Novel Festival Events

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Editing - Novel writing - Write A Novel Month 2024

You’ve reached your word count. Now what? Exercises and techniques so you can organise your book and your mind most effectively. With Emma Healey.
Gold Star Members

Write A Novel Month 2024

How to create a narrative where the world design is inherent to the story being crafted, rather than standing alongside it as detail. With Ed McDonald.
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Novel writing - Write A Novel Month 2024

What if you could keep pantsing your novel but do it better? We can help! With Mallika Narayanan
Gold Star Members

Write A Novel Month 2024

From catching the eye of a literary agent to securing a sale from a potential reader, we only get one shot at making a first impression. So let's make it GREAT. With Samuel Burr.
Gold Star Members

Desert Island Books - Write A Novel Month 2024

What books does Wiz Wharton credit as her inspiration for becoming the writer she is today? Find out on Desert Island Books!
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Write A Novel Month 2024

Come write with us! A guided writing session for cracking on with your wild draft or a different part of your novel (or anything else you happen to be writing!)
Gold Star Members

Novel writing - Write A Novel Month 2024

An absolutely absurd workshop in which we super speed through your entire novel in one hour. Hilarious, ridiculous, surprisingly helpful.
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Write A Novel Month 2024

How can we make our characters three-dimensional, memorable and believable? With Alice Slater
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Novel writing - Write A Novel Month 2024

Celebrate the start of Write A Novel Month with an introduction to the Wild Draft. What is it and how can you get one written?

You ready? Let’s gooooooo!

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