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Applications for The Writers’ Block’s Young Writers Mentoring Programme 2024-2025 are now open! Six lucky applicants will FREE access to: 4 x one to one writing mentoring sessions 11 monthly creative writing workshops, including masterclasses with published writers A chance to share your work at […]

Stories of Stuff is a project and methodology developed by The Writers’ Block that sheds light on the narratives woven into our everyday objects and the places we live. From Redruth to Liskeard to Devonport, Stories of Stuff captures stories of communities as well as […]

The Writers’ Block is running a 3 day training programme for Emerging Playwrights, funded and supported by The Minack Theatre. The outcome of the programme is for The Minack Theatre to commission a selection of short, original plays for Autumn 2024 for their Play in […]

Development & Work Opportunity for Emerging Performers The Story Republic is an ensemble of performers with a passion for story, poetry and song with a strong Cornish flavour.  In a typical summer, The Story Republic will perform at events and festivals, as well as part […]

We are delighted to welcome Dr Jen McDerra as the new Creative Director of The Writers’ Block. Our KEAP Director of 22 years, Amanda Harris, will retire on 30 November, and Artistic Director Anna Maria Murphy will take a step back in 2024. Now we […]

Are you passionate about the power of the written and spoken word to change lives? Do you thrive on partnership working and collaboration? Do you have good knowledge of sector needs and creative writing and literacy strategy? At a moment of change, with the retirement […]

by Casey Bottono Our most recent Young Writers workshop found us exploring the concept of place as character. The writers first focused on writing about a place that held personal meaning, before beginning to personify those places. Widening the focus, we then invited them to […]

The Writers’ Block has been developing a programme of specialist Writers’ Rooms around specific genres. They are focussed on emerging writers working with experienced professional writers on a genre, creating writing with a direct route to audiences. This Writers’ Room is focussed on writing for […]

Creative writing is most often considered an individual pursuit, but it can be rewarding to branch out of your comfort zone and try writing with other people. With this in mind, our most recent Young Writers Group explored the possibilities of writing fiction collaboratively. Our […]

Development & Work Opportunity for Emerging Performers The Story Republic is an ensemble of performers with a passion for story, poetry and song with a strong Cornish flavour.  In a typical summer, The Story Republic will perform at events and festivals, as well as part […]