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On Saturday 28th September, we welcomed a new group of Young Writers to The Writers’ Block. Once everyone had settled in, we provided card and various pens to make and decorate name tags. Having introduced ourselves, we could then split into pairs and find out […]

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 […]

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 […]

Exploring Mystery and Crime Writing with the Young Writers Last Saturday’s Young Writers workshop offered an opportunity to explore the conventions of crime and mystery writing. We set the scene by having a conversation about Cluedo, invented in 1949 but still enjoyed today for its […]

Our most recent Young Writers workshop was prompted by a participant who asked whether we could explore structured poetry. This topic is so broad that the possibilities were almost endless. We eventually decided to focus on two more familiar forms, with the potential to explore […]

Unifying Threads: Exploring Saints and Sinners with the Young Writers The first Young Writers workshop of the new term gave us the opportunity to explore new territory using familiar forms. We had been asked to support the participants in preparing new work on the theme […]

A Dystopian Winter Workshop with the Young Writers by Casey Bottono We’ve explored dystopian fiction with the Young Writers before during a Zoom workshop over lockdown. The participants took this demanding theme in their stride, and when asked last month what they wanted to look […]