Developing Your Fiction
Developing Your Fiction, a five session in-person course with Dr Melanie Golding
Level Up! Small group mentoring for poets
Elevate your poetic craft in this dynamic mentoring workshop tailored for those already writing and eager to take their poetry to new heights. With JLM Morton.
From Fragments to Form: Advanced Life Writing Workshop
A small, advanced group (maximum 8) for writers ready to turn existing material and ideas into a structured manuscript opening and outline in 10 weeks. With tutor Kate Potts.
Get It Together: making a poetry pamphlet
Get your poetry pamphlet together in this one day in-person workshop with poet and editor JLM Morton
Words in the Woods: Hailey Woods, nr Cirencester
An afternoon of focused, structured writing time at the Into Nature roundhouse, in the beautiful surroundings of Hailey Wood, nr Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Long Light: A Summer Solstice Writing Workshop
A summer solstice workshop and seasonal check in with your creative practice. Suitable for all.
Moth Magic Retreat
Over five days and six nights, this retreat offers women a clear, steady space to explore writing and embodiment at midlife not as a crisis, but as a powerful turning point. Guided by the moth, a shapeshifting creature of metamorphosis, we’ll embrace this transition as an expansion, a celebration of wisdom, maturity, and growth that will sustain us as we move into the next stage of our lives.
Poetic Mapping
An immersive online workshop exploring how poetry can chart the landscapes of memory, emotion, and environment.
Words in the Woods: Hailey Woods, Nr Cirencester
An afternoon of focused, structured writing time, in the beautiful roundhouse at Hailey Wood, nr Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Perpetual Astonishment: a spring equinox retreat
A stylish three‑night, four‑day retreat for writers who want to work closely with landscape, folklore, and seasonal change.
From Page to Performance
A mini masterclass in performing your work with confidence, with voice actor and storyteller Charlie Sanderson
Words in the Woods - Sladebank, Stroud
An afternoon of focused writing and creative community at Sladebank - a community woodland in Stroud, Gloucestershire. Followed by a relaxed and informal open mic session.
Telling your story - trick, or treat?
Join us for a friendly and informal workshop examining the joys (and potential pitfalls) of writing from life, hosted by author Mark Blackburn
Writing the Future
Writing The Future with poets and Bending The Arc editors Alice Willitts, Ilse Pedler and Hilary Watson. Online (with study pack)
Regional Writers Meet Up
A Friday lunch time social for writers of all levels (run quarterly in various locations across the upper south-west). This session will be held in Gloucester, at Jolt Studios
The Clearing: Writing for Calm and Connection
Gentle, small-group creative sessions to support wellbeing through writing, shared reading, and connection with nature. Free to attend, but please book - spaces are limited.
Moth/er Midlife
Step into the woods and follow the moth’s path into the metamorphosis of midlife. Through writing and ritual, we’ll explore this powerful stage of life with courage, creativity, and joy. Includes optional woodland sauna after the workshop. SOLD OUT
Even Now: Writing Toward Hope
A three-part workshop series exploring explore how poetic language can help us navigate uncertainty, reimagine possibility, and tend to what matters most. SOLD OUT :)
Writing Our Lives II
Five fortnightly in-person sessions on life writing with Kate Potts.
Elements
A creative writing workshop looking at the ways prose and poetry have explored the ancient elements of earth, air fire and water. Five sessions online with Philip Rush.
Developing Your Fiction
Developing Your Fiction, a five session in-person course with Dr Melanie Golding
Reading for Writers
This monthly, in-person reading group is an invitation to aspiring, emerging and existing writers to engage more deeply with selected fiction, memoir and poetry as makers and craftspeople. SOLD OUT :)
Level Up! Small group mentoring for poets
Elevate your poetic craft in this dynamic mentoring workshop tailored for those already writing and eager to take their poetry to new heights. With JLM Morton. SOLD OUT :)
Winter Solstice Writing Workshop
A seasonal check in with your writerly self. This winter solstice workshop is a moment to take stock as the sun stands still, to do away with what no longer serves you and call in that which you need to flourish.
Poetry Reading Group: TS Eliot Prize Shortlist 2025
Join Our TS Eliot Prize Shortlist Reading Group – Starting October 2025, with JLM Morton
Poetry Salon: Indie Press Network
Join us for an afternoon of readings as the Indie Press Network brings together acclaimed poets from across the UK’s vibrant small press landscape.
Tools for the Turning World: A Poetry Workshop
A companion poetry workshop to the exhibition “Earth Fire Iron: Alan Evans and the New Iron Age, 1980-2025” to mark National Poetry Day
Kilver Court: One Day Retreat in Somerset
In our new collaboration with Distil Coworking, join us for a very special one day writing retreat at the beautiful Kilver Court in Somerset, followed by late afternoon readings of poetry and prose.
Bats! Walk & Words
Join us for an evening walk and find out more about our incredible local bats , stopping along the way to read some bat-inspired words to encourage our own writing after the event.
Regional Writers’ Meet Up
The first of a regular, free regional meet up for writers based in the upper South West.
Level Up! Small group mentoring for poets
Elevate your poetic craft in this dynamic mentoring workshop tailored for those already writing and eager to take their poetry to new heights.
Surveys for Writers and Readers in Gloucester (GUST Collaboration)
A survey of what’s currently available for readers and writers in Gloucester, to build and develop future literary opportunities in the city
Summer Poetry Walks at Dusk with Philp Rush
Three summer poetry walks through Gloucestershire at dusk - Woodchester, Avening & Randwick
Dr Jenner’s House Creative Retreat and Summer Readings Plus Special Guests: Ordinary Folk
An afternoon of focused creative time in the historic home of naturalist, physician and vaccine pioneer, Dr Edward Jenner.
Followed by a summer evening social in the garden, with readings of poetry and prose from the Dialect community
Laurie Lee Prize Writers Retreat Day at The Hide
A day retreat for Laurie Lee Prize shortlisted writers