Online Writing Course
Our Online Writing Course is the perfect resource for teachers and young people navigating classroom and remote learning. Designed for young people aged between 11 – 16 years old, our free Online Writing Course explores everything from developing characters and finding your writing voice to turning your ideas into engaging stories.
Each 40-minute video session is led by professional writers and accompanied by downloadable worksheets for students to use as a remote learning package.
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Creating Dynamic Characters by Nessah Muthy
A fun, interactive introduction to creating and building three-dimensional characters and how to take them on a journey.
A fun, interactive introduction to creating and building three-dimensional characters and how to take them on a journey.
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Exploring the relationship between character and story by Frazer Flintham
It can sometimes feel like characters and their stories are in competition with each other. But they don't need to be. You will discover ways to make sure your characters and stories can stand side by side, hand in hand.
It can sometimes feel like characters and their stories are in competition with each other. But they don't need to be. You will discover ways to make sure your characters and stories can stand side by side, hand in hand.
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Turning your ideas into stories by Matilda Ibini & Natasha Sutton Williams
This session will help you identify what you want to say to the world and why you absolutely must say it. You will explore how to take the subjects and themes you care most about and develop them into stories.
This session will help you identify what you want to say to the world and why you absolutely must say it. You will explore how to take the subjects and themes you care most about and develop them into stories.
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The Power of Personification and Metaphor by Keith Jarrett
In this session, your students will use metaphor and personification to explore place, with short fun exercises to generate ideas, building up to a bigger challenge. By the end of the session, everyone will have the tools to create a poem about what matters most to them.
In this session, your students will use metaphor and personification to explore place, with short fun exercises to generate ideas, building up to a bigger challenge. By the end of the session, everyone will have the tools to create a poem about what matters most to them.
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Writing For Performance by Charlie Josephine
How do you stay safe when writing from personal experience? How do you stop it all from becoming a bit self-indulgent? Where should you even start?! Expect honest conversation, questions explored and exercises on generating material to begin writing the perfect part.
How do you stay safe when writing from personal experience? How do you stop it all from becoming a bit self-indulgent? Where should you even start?! Expect honest conversation, questions explored and exercises on generating material to begin writing the perfect part.
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How to Write a Great Opening Scene by Chinonyerem Odimba
This session explores the things we need to think about when writing an opening scene for a play or story. How can your students start their story in the most exciting way possible for their reader and audience?
This session explores the things we need to think about when writing an opening scene for a play or story. How can your students start their story in the most exciting way possible for their reader and audience?
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Devising on the Page by Luke Skilbeck
Everyone can write. This session explores getting those words on the page and bringing them to life for the reader.
Everyone can write. This session explores getting those words on the page and bringing them to life for the reader.
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Q&A with writers
Writers Chino Odimba, Matilda Ibini, Charlie Josephine, Keith Jarrett, Leo Skilbeck, Nessah Muthy, Frazer Flintham, and Natasha Sutton-Williams ask each other questions.
Writers Chino Odimba, Matilda Ibini, Charlie Josephine, Keith Jarrett, Leo Skilbeck, Nessah Muthy, Frazer Flintham, and Natasha Sutton-Williams ask each other questions.
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“All of the session was really useful, loved the practical elements which allowed us to try out the exercises rather than them just being discussed.”
