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
- Twelve incredible workshops hosted by a specially curated gang of writers and authors who will teach, inspire and pep you into the stratosphere
- The Wild Draft challenge, supporting you to blat out thousands of words of your novel in just one month to help move you onto the next stage
- All the famous Writers' HQ novel writing courses, including Plotstormers, Plotstormers Lite, and Troubleshoot Your Novel
- The most word-writing, tea-drinking, story-slinging, biscuit-dunking, productivity-boosting, super supportive writing community this side of the internet
This year's Write A Novel Festival event calendar
Ready? Get yourself a Gold Star Membership to access everything in the Write A Novel Festival
- All twelve workshops hosted by inspiring, butt-kicking and award-winning authors
- All previous festival workshop replays
- All Writers' HQ novel plotting, editing and troubleshooting courses
- Access to the amazing Writers' HQ community
- All the other membership goodies
