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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 & YA Fiction Festival
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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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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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 Write Your Opening Chapters
9th January 2025 12:30pm to 1:30pm, Online
Do you have a brilliant idea for a novel but don't know where to start? Join Chloe Timms, author of the speculative, acclaimed feminist novel, The...
£20.00
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On Inspiration, Perspiration and Creative Desperation
13th January 2025 12:30pm to 1:30pm, Online
In our January masterclass, Hattie Crisell will share advice on navigating the highs and lows of the writing life – drawing on her own experience, as...
£20.00
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Writing Historical Horror
15th January 2025 7:00pm to 8:30pm, Online

Do you want to bring horror into your historical fiction?

Join award-winning author and poet A K Blakemore (The Manningtree Witches, The...

£30.00
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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 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

The Shape of Haibun
9th January 2025 4:00pm to 12th June 2025 6:00pm, Online
Suitable for writers wanting experience in writing haibun/tanka prose, including experienced Flash Fiction writers who would like to extend their...
£320.00
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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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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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