Spend June writing the shit out of your novel.

What’s your plan? We don’t know yet either, but we’re going to help you figure it out.

Join us for this hour-long goal setting, idea-sorting, getting-it-straight workshop that will help you clarify exactly what it is you’re doing and how you’re going to do it.

Featuring special guest Emma Robertson! Some of you will know Emma as a longtime WHQer who’s debut novel A Girl’s Girl is published THIS VERY MONTH.

We’ll be asking Emma about how she did it and digging into what we can learn from her process. 

Who is this for?

• Any writer who wants to work on their novel or join in with the Write A Novel Festival
• A writer planning on working on a Wild Draft throughout June
• A write who is in a novel-rut and needs to shift and wriggle themselves out of it
• A writer who wants to write alongside the best goddamn writing community this side of the internet

This workshop leads directly on to the Write Along at 7pm. You can leave at the end of this workshop or carry on and write. Whatevs works for you, boo.

About Emma Robertson 

Emma Robertson’s debut novel A Girl’s Girl is being published by Zaffre, an imprint of Bonnier Books, in June 2026. Emma has had flash and other short fiction published in a number of anthologies and literary magazines including Popshot Quarterly, Lunate, Ellipsiszine and Funny Pearls. She was one of the winners of Spread the Word’s City of Stories competition in and has been longlisted for Bath Flash Fiction Award, Cranked Anvil and the Wigleaf Top 50. Emma writes around her main career as a dance teacher for adults in London, and this unusual combination was featured in the ‘My Portfolio Career’ section of Mslexia magazine in 2023.

A Girl’s Girl is described as a perfect summer read – a beach read with a bite. Emma took the old advice of writing the book that she would like to read and as such it is stuffed with all the things she loves: flawed characters, travel and a good dollop of 1990s nostalgia.