A workshop for new writers led by bestselling novelist and experienced creative-writing tutor Laura Barnett.

Have you longed to write for as long as you can remember, but just can’t work out how to get started? Are you brimming with ideas for novels and stories, but none of your efforts quite measure up? Or are you just curious about writing fiction and looking for a way in?

If you answer yes to any of these questions, then this workshop is for you. Bestselling novelist and experienced tutor Laura Barnett will lead a warm, inclusive session, offering prompts and writing exercises, alongside group discussions and practical advice. Open to new and emerging writers of prose – both novels and short stories – this is an opportunity both to expand your creative horizons and to reflect on how to translate your best ideas into real, engaging works of fiction.

Laura Barnett’s debut novel The Versions of Us was a number-one bestseller. Her other novels include Greatest Hit, Gifts, This Beating Heart  and most recently, Births, Deaths and Marriages which was published in 2025.

A Dulwich Festival event.

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