Ruth Figgest is a novelist and short story writer and teaches on the Creative Writing Programme at the Towner Eastbourne which starts in October. Here she offers her top tips for writing.

Congratulations to alumnus Stuart Gillespie whose hybrid memoir Food Fight is published today. Here he talks about his experience on the Life Writing Programme and how he started his writing journey

The Creative Writing Programme is coming to Tunbridge Wells in the autumn. If you’ve always dreamed of writing a novel, or collection of short stories, and live in or near Tunbridge Wells, then why not sign up for a taster session on Saturday 5th July or Saturday 6th September to see if it’s for you

A group of writers hear from best-selling author Laura Wilkinson about creating memorable characters

Beth Miller is the author of six novels, including the bestselling The Missing Letters of Mrs Bright. She teaches on the Creative Writing Programme based in Worthing on Friday mornings. Here she offers her top writing tips.

Jacq is an award-winning short story writer, performed playwright and freelanced for many years as an arts writer for magazines and newspapers. Working with Rosie Chard, she is now leading a new course – the 10-week Introduction to Creative Writing – starting in May.

Kristin Burniston is a British American writer with an MA in Screenwriting from the University of the Arts London and a BA in Communication Arts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She took the Creative Writing Programme from 2018 to 2020.

If you’re a writer and you’ve got a book and you want to get it published, then you need to come to Publishing Day on Saturday 31^st May to find out how.

A huge congratulations to our six students and alumni who shared their work at our spring reading last night at Kemptown Bookshop, Brighton.

Rosie Chard is a novelist, freelance editor, writing coach/mentor, landscape architect and English language teacher. She has published three novels and has been a tutor on the Creative Writing Programme for many years.

Good creative writing is about writing itself—not following rigid templates or academic constraints, but embracing the artistic process.

Congratulations to our seven students and alumni who read their work in progress at our autumn reading last night.

During the Easter 2025 holidays, we’re hosting five one-day creative writing masterclasses to support your writing practice.

Join us on Thursday 28th November at 7pm at Kemptown Bookshop, Brighton to hear work from our students and alumni and to socialise with other writers on the courses.

Are you interested in becoming a writer? Our brilliant tutors have put together a list of their go-to books about writing.

Congratulations to alumna Sue Paterson whose debut novel The Department of Certainty has been published by indie publisher Stairwell Books. Here she talks about her writing life.

Congratulations to alumna Rosalind Eyben whose biography of her father has recently been published by Taylor & Francis.

Congratulations to alumnus Stuart Gillespie who has secured a publishing deal for his hybrid memoir Food Fight.

Roy Mcfarlane FRSL is a poet, playwright and former youth and community worker born in Birmingham of Jamaican parentage spending most of his years living in Wolverhampton and the Black Country, now residing in Brighton. He has published numerous poetry collections and teaches the Advanced Poetry course on Wednesday afternoons. 

You want to be a writer – but should you take a creative writing course or learn ‘on the job’?