Let's Start Writing

Ideal For Beginners

Two-session online workshop, 1 - 1.5 hours per session, live teaching, via Zoom.

The length of the sessions varies depending on the session topic and the questions and discussions that arise. Sessions will be a minimum of one hour.

Only ten places available on this workshop.

Starting Thursday 15th May 2025 at 7.00PM for two weeks ending 22nd May 2025

Times shown: British Summer Time

If you are interested in future dates for this workshop please email: [email protected]

Workshop fee: £49.99

(meeting invite will be sent out a couple of days prior to the workshop)

Workshop Leader

Esther Chilton

Since joining The Writers Bureau as a student many years ago, Esther hasn’t looked back and now writes and tutors full-time. She regularly has articles and short stories published in a variety of newspapers and magazines in the UK and abroad, ranging from The Guardian, to The People’s Friend, to Writing Magazine. As well as winning writing competitions herself, Esther has judged many, including Writers’ Forum magazine’s monthly short story competition. She is currently working with a publisher on a range of non-fiction books on writing.

Workshop Outline

The best reason to start writing is because you enjoy it. You might have dreams of penning a novel or writing stories for the women’s weeklies. Perhaps non-fiction writing is something that you feel is more for you. Maybe you’re not sure of what writing you want to do at this stage and that’s fine. Even if you do know, you may not know where to begin. How do you start writing? What do you write about?

This two-week course is all about getting you writing and having some fun with it. Over the two weeks, we’ll work on unlocking your creative juices and starting you off. You’ll be given ideas and lots of writing exercises to try, with the aim of helping you to write on a regular basis by the end of the course.

This workshop is run by Budding Writers in partnership with The Writers Bureau.

By taking part in this workshop you will:

  • meet other writers

  • have time to ask questions as there are only ten participants per group

  • start writing some short pieces

  • given ideas to write about

  • gain increased self-confidence to take your writing forward on your own.

Starting Thursday 15th May 2025 at 7.00PM for two weeks ending 22nd May 2025

Workshop fee: £49.99

  • Exercises to start you writing

  • Gain confidence to keep on writing

  • Notes emailed to you after each session

  • A maximum of ten people