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The Writers’ Block Writers’ Rooms are each focused on a specific genre. These unique programs are designed to support emerging writers by pairing them with experienced professionals, providing a clear path for their work to reach audiences.
The Writers’ Block hosted the Bill’s Attic Writers’ Room in November 2025, led by Annamaria Murphy and inspired by the extraordinary archive of Bill Mitchell.
Across three intensive workshops at The Ladder, writers Sonia Thakurdesai, Rosie Hadden and Hanna Kubbutat-Byrne explored Bill’s imaginative world of objects, sketches, ephemera and theatrical ideas to create new experimental writing.
Led by poet and academic John Wedgwood Clarke, we invited three emerging writers to explore how poetry can act as a kind of weather station.
Writers Karen Howse, Holly Boyden and Jackie Taylor spend the week thinking about how poetry could hold wildly different kinds of information together in a mutually illuminating way
Led by John Wedgewood Clarke, Our Mingles Selves explored various approaches to prose and poetry that highlight the indivisible relationship between humanity and the local and global biodiversity that sustains us.
Led by John Wedgewood Clarke, Our Mingles Selves explored various approaches to prose and poetry that highlight the indivisible relationship between humanity and the local and global biodiversity that sustains us.
The ‘Writing for Children’ Writers’ Room, led by children’s author Anna Wilson provided emerging writers with the opportunity to explore the nuances of writing for a younger audience.
From Redruth to Liskeard to Devonport, Stories of Stuff captures stories of communities as well as providing mentoring for emerging writers in the art of story gathering.
Led by Annamaria Murphy and set in the inspiring environment of Bill’s Attic, emerging writers crafted short stories specifically designed for audio
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