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W&A events range from one-off masterclass evenings with authors and How to Hook an Agent lunches through to full-day How to Get Published conferences and multi-week evening writing courses. These events take place online, at our offices in Bloomsbury Publishing, or, when we can, at venues across the UK. Wherever possible, W&A events are held in association with literature development charities, universities, and other writing organisations.

Our interactive Writing Calendar is there to keep you up-to-date with all that's going on in the world of writing, enabling you to browse upcoming festivals, events and competitions by keyword, date, genre or location. To add a Writing Calendar entry, simply create/log in to your W&A account and click here. 

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Children's Writers & Illustrators Festival
Children's Writers & Illustrators Festival 2025: WEEKEND PASS+
22nd March 2025 9:30am to 23rd March 2025 5:00pm, Online
Our Children's Writers & Illustrators Festival is back for 2025, and bigger than ever before! This is a craft-based run of events and recordings...
£125.00
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Children's Writers & Illustrators Festival 2025: MASTERCLASS+
22nd March 2025 9:30am to 23rd March 2025 5:00pm, Online
Our Children's Writers & Illustrators Festival is back for 2025, and bigger than ever before! This is a craft-based run of events and recordings...
£75.00
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Children's Writers & Illustrators Festival 2025: WEEKEND PASS
22nd March 2025 9:30am to 23rd March 2025 5:00pm, Online
Our Children's Writers & Illustrators Festival is back for 2025, and bigger than ever before! This is a craft-based run of events and recordings...
£90.00
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Children's Writers & Illustrators Festival 2025: FESTIVAL PLAYER
22nd March 2025 9:30am to 23rd March 2025 5:00pm, Online
Our Children's Writers & Illustrators Festival is back for 2025, and bigger than ever before! This is a craft-based run of events and recordings...
£50.00
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How to Get Published
Writing for Page, Stage and Screen: Fiction and Script
29th March 2025 10:00am to 4:30pm, Friends House
173-177 Euston Rd
Are you a writer of fiction and/or script, looking to develop your craft? Do you want to understand more about the process of getting your work into...
£95.00
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How to Hook an Agent
How to Hook an Agent - Feb 2025
22nd February 2025 9:00am to 1:30pm, Bloomsbury Publishing
Bloomsbury Publishing, 50 Bedford Square
Are you writing a book for publication but unsure of how to find an agent? Get the inside track on the submission process from leading UK literary...
£175.00
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Masterclasses
How to Think Like a Poet
17th February 2025 7:00pm to 8:30pm, Online

What do poets think about?

Poet Dai George will delve into how to think like a poet, and the impact that this can have on your writing and...

£30.00
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Writing Character-Led Children's Fiction
24th February 2025 7:00pm to 8:30pm, Online
As writers, we share our days with fictional people. So how can we make sure that our readers want to spend time with them too? Join Lesley Parr,...
£30.00
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Midlife Voices Workshop
3rd March 2025 7:00pm to 8:30pm, Online
Do you want to tap in to the transformational power of poetry? Join author, editor and poet Madeleine F White (Mother Of Floods, The Horse And The...
£30.00
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Confessions of a Short Story Writer
19th March 2025 12:30pm to 1:30pm, Online

Critically acclaimed short story writer Lucy Sweeney Byrne will reveal what she wishes someone had told her at the start of her journey, looking...

£20.00
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Writing Courses
Find Your Voice (January 2025)
21st January 2025 7:00pm to 25th February 2025 9:00pm, Online
Explore the craft of creative writing by paying attention to voice in our online course with writer Natalie Young.
£275.00
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How to Edit Your Manuscript
10th February 2025 7:00pm to 17th March 2025 8:30pm, Online
All writing is rewriting. This short editing course will develop your ability to reflect critically on your own creative work, to take what you’ve...
£350.00
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Write Better Fiction: Improve Your Manuscript in Four Weeks - March 25
3rd March 2025 6:00pm to 24th March 2025 8:30pm, Online
Are you serious about taking your writing to the next level? Do you want to improve your manuscript in just four weeks?

Write Better Fiction...

£275.00
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Writing Horror Fiction 2025
29th April 2025 7:00pm to 27th May 2025 8:30pm, Online
From monsters to ghosts, murderous clowns to the gothic, horror stories have been keeping readers up at night for as long as we can remember. Writing...
£350.00
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Writing Calendar

Introduction to Publishing with Future Worlds Prize
22nd January 2025 6:30pm to 8:30pm, Online
Future Worlds Prize would like to invite you to a free, online Introduction to Publishing event, held in conjunction with Bloomsbury Publishing and...
Fears of the Dark - Online Horror Writing School
4th February 2025 6:30pm to 13th March 2025 8:30pm
A 6-week online horror writing school, featuring guest workshops, feedback sessions and more!
£55.00
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The Shape of Haibun (asynchronous online course with Alan Summers)
1st May 2025 5:00pm to 21st October 2025 6:00pm, Online
Suitable for students who would like experience in writing haibun/tanka prose or haiku/tanka; plus experienced Flash Fiction writers who would like...
£320.00
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Romance Writing Festival, Bournemouth
18th October 2025 9:00am to 10:00pm, Royal Bath Hotel
Bath Road
Talks, beach walks, masterclasses, workshops, panels and networking for romance writers on the sunny south coast of England.
£74.00
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