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Prioritise Your Writing
Prioritise Your Writing with Alison Chandler
To produce a full manuscript – whether it’s a novel or novella, a memoir, biography or a collection of stories – you need a love of writing, a willingness to grow as a writer and a lot of hard work. Practicing all three in the company of an encouraging, supportive group makes the whole experience a lot more productive and a lot more fun!
Our classes are small and each session bespoke, tailored to participants’ specific goals. Ahead of week one, we share brief outlines of our work in progress with the group to help fellow writers – and ourselves! – understand our aims and aspirations. We workshop our words over the following weeks (a minimum of 3000 words per writer) learning as much from our close reading of others as we do from receiving feedback, and we discuss all aspects of writing craft.
If you’re ready to take a leap forward with your project in great company, we’d love to hear from you. And if you’re a regular, you know you’re always welcome back to take your work to the next stage.
Read an account of how this course helped one (now published!) author here:
THE MOTIVATION I NEEDED
“The course gave me the motivation I needed and when the sessions ended I kept the momentum going. I signed a book deal shortly afterwards. A huge thank you for helping me on my journey to become a published author.”
Natasha
Prioritise Your Writing
FEELING OF CAMARADERIE
“This was exactly the course I needed to keep going with my novel. It provided a sense of urgency and focus for my writing practice, as well as a feeling of camaraderie and accountability from the other writers on the course.”
Corin
Prioritise Your Writing
Our tutor Alison says...
I love bearing witness to just how much can be achieved when you allow yourself to put your writing first, in the company of others rising to the same challenge. The sense of solidarity is just wonderful.
ZOOM DELIVERY
Maximum of 8 students
Cost £160
Spring One 2025: Mornings
- Wednesdays 10.30am-1pm
- Jan 8, 15, 22, 29, Feb 5, 12
Spring Two 2025: Mornings
- Wednesdays 10.30am-1pm
- Feb 26, March 5, 12, 19, 26, April 2
Summer One 2025: Mornings
- Wednesdays 10.30am-1pm
- April 23, 30, May 7, 14, 21, 28
Summer Two 2025: Mornings
- Wednesdays 10.30am-1pm
- June 11, 18, 25, July 2, 9, 16
Cost £168
Autumn One 2025: Mornings
- Wednesdays 10.30am-1pm
- Sept 17, 24, Oct 1, 8, 15, 22
Autumn Two 2024: Mornings
- Wednesdays 10.30am-1pm
- Nov 5, 12, 19, 26, Dec 3, 12
Alison Chandler
Alison is a co-director of Writing Room. She has been working with creative writers since 2010. She has an MA in Creative Writing from Birkbeck and a Level 3 Award in Education and Training from WM College in Camden, and believes passionately that everyone should have access to lifelong learning. Alison arrived at Writing Room working on her own creative development as a poetry student in 2014 and immediately felt she’d come home. She designed and developed our Prioritise Your Writing and Introduction to Creative Writing courses to support writers at all stages of their own creative journey. Alison has published poems, short stories and creative non-fiction, and that novel project will eventually see the light of day too! She lives in Kentish Town with her two nearly grown up boys and a grumpy cat. In her spare time you’ll find her back home in South Wales, walking the Gower and Pembrokeshire coast paths and trying to write how that feels.
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