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New Creatives Cornwall – 2025 Work Experience Opportunity In 2025, creative organisations across Cornwall are teaming up to offer an incredible project-based work experience program across a variety of creative practices. Whether you’re interested in creative writing, music, heritage, screen, or something in between, there’s […]

The Power of Poetry with the Young Writers The last Young Writers group of 2024 was a triumph, as we gathered online in defiance of the weather to celebrate poetry and create new poems. The workshop began with a discussion where we talked about the […]

Exploring Gothic Fiction with the Young Writers   ‘Part of our brain wants to explore things that are outside our comfort zone…’ Young Writers participant, 9th November 2024   As the nights draw in, it is natural to look to the creepy and uncanny for […]

Collecting and celebrating stories of our global majority community The Writers’ Block alongside Bev Bevington of Cocobean Cornwall is inviting four Year 5 classes in Camborne/Redruth to be part of this important project uncovering the life stories of some of our global majority community members […]

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 […]

A clear structure makes for a much more compelling story, and it was with this in mind that we approached Saturday’s Young Writers workshop. There is no shortage of creativity within the sessions, but we wanted to explore how best to put that into practice. […]

In our most recent Young Writers workshop, we considered the trope of the unreliable narrator. We set up a scenario where guests had gathered at a stately home for a New Year’s Eve party in 1929. All the guests retired, and many woke with sore […]

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 […]