Mini Goals for Science Fiction and Fantasy writers with Francesca. Email billie@writingsquad.com to get the link.

This Zoom meeting will last maybe about an hour and not longer than an hour and half. We are seeing how we have done with the mini-goals we set ourselves last week, and maybe renewing them or setting new ones. This is open to Squad 1-9 with a focus on prose, there are other groups […]

This Zoom meeting will last maybe about an hour and not longer than an hour and half. We are seeing how we have done with the mini-goals we set ourselves last week, and maybe renewing them or setting new ones. This is open to Squad 1-9 with a focus on poets, there are other groups […]

At last we meet! Two opportunities for you Squad 10 writers to meet us and each other – one in Manchester, one in Leeds. Not a workshop more of a gentle wander, but we will do the things writers do, look, take notes, do some thinking, some writing, maybe even share what we come up […]

This Zoom meeting will last maybe about an hour and not longer than an hour and half. We are seeing how we have done with the mini-goals we set ourselves last week, and maybe renewing them or setting new ones. This is open to Squad 1-9 with a focus on poets, there are other groups […]

One of the squad's 3 Awesome Reading groups - designed to think about how we can read as writers. We will be reading Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone's novella This is How You Lose the Time War - an epic love story spanning time and space.

One of the very best ways to become a better writer is to read widely and thoughtfully. Building on Emma and Matt’s great work in establishing the Awesome Play Text / Screenplay Reading Club, and Francesca's prose club, Malika and Stevie are hosting the Awesome Poetry Reading Club to focus on how we can read […]

Flarf poetry – which uses found text from internet sources and plays with intentional ugliness and daftness – was on the up 20 years ago. The internet was a very different place. What does it feel like to write flarf now? The raw materials are different. Are we saying different things? In this workshop we […]

Setting goals and sharing recommendations. Email billie@writingsquad.com to get the link.

This Zoom meeting will last maybe about an hour and not longer than an hour and half. We are seeing how we have done with the mini-goals we set ourselves last week, and maybe renewing them or setting new ones. This is open to Squad 1-9 with a focus on prose, there are other groups […]

This Zoom meeting will last maybe about an hour and not longer than an hour and half. We are seeing how we have done with the mini-goals we set ourselves last week, and maybe renewing them or setting new ones. This is open to Squad 1-9 with a focus on poets, there are other groups […]

NOTE: By signing up to this Eventbrite, you are confirming attendance to BOTH sessions involved. The first on 1st July (7-9pm), the second on 29th July (7-9pm). Developing Your Creative Practice (DYCP) is Arts Council England’s funding scheme that aims to provide financial support to individual artists in order to facilitate a step change in […]