Do you want to write, but find it hard to get started or build momentum? Maybe your writing has fallen flat and your ideas feel tired, or you've got so many demands on your time and energy that writing feels like a luxury you can't afford. Wherever you're at, this course can help. Each week we'll explore a different way into writing through practical, playful experiments. You'll learn how to dismantle blocks to creativity, how to keep feeding your imagination, how to bring new life into your writing, and how to keep your writing going.

About the course leader:

Anna Lawrence writes fiction, nonfiction and poetry. She has been running creative writing workshops across the West Midlands since 2010, and taught creative writing at BCU for seven years. Her poems were most recently published in Poetry Birmingham, and her novel, Ruby’s Spoon - in which a suspected witch and a suspected mermaid fetch up in a Black Country town - is published by Penguin.

DATES/TIMES:

This will be an eight week course, on the following dates -

Wednesday 29th Jan, 6.30pm - 8.30pm

Wednesday 5th Feb, 6.30pm - 8.30pm

Wednesday 12th Feb, 6.30pm - 8.30pm

Wednesday 26th Feb, 6.30pm - 8.30pm

Wednesday 5th March, 6.30pm - 8.30pm

Wednesday 12th March, 6.30pm - 8.30pm

Wednesday 19th March, 6.30pm - 8.30pm

Wednesday 26th March, 6.30pm - 8.30pm

For more details or to book your place, please follow the Eventbrite link -

Questions? Email BWriting@icloud.com

What people say about the course: ‘very stimulating but also safe: a great way to get going with writing… I now write regularly and feel much less inhibited about it.’