Events
At our events we spotlight a theme and inform by connecting, listening and sharing work across genres through workshops held on the last Tuesday of each month from 6 - 8 pm.
The meetings cover both practical and thought - provoking discussions that challenge participants to expand creative boundaries.
Events are open to writers of any ability who are intentional about their work. Attendees range from university students to published writers to retired professionals.
Upcoming Events
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Screenwriting: Shaping a Great Story
Tuesday 30 September, 6-8pm
The Walrus, Ship Street
If you have ever wondered how to write propulsive, grab you and don’t-let-you-go story lines that take you high and low, the incredible Pete Lawson is going to explain how.
Pete has written more than 250 episodes of Eastenders, as well as Casualty, The Afternoon Play, London Bridge and Capital Lives, and created and wrote Being April for BBC1. He is also a long term supporter of RWC and chair of Brighton-based young writers' charity Little Green Pig.
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Memoir
Tuesday 28 October, 6-8pm
The Walrus, Ship Street BN1 1AD
In light of The Salt Path controversy, it seems there is much to discuss.
To unpick the continuing value of memoir and the choices a writer makes sharing their life on the page, Vybarr Cregan-Reid memoirist, speaker and broadcaster, and author of We Are What We Read: a life without and within books, and Footnotes: how running makes us human, will be travelling down from York where he teaches at York St John University.
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How to Build a Writing Career
Tuesday 25 November 6-8pm
Described as the ‘Queen of family drama’, bestselling author Amanda Prowse will be joining us in November. Amanda is the author of an astonishing 31 novels across multiple genres, two non-fiction titles, and several short stories. Her books sell in the millions. Her latest page-turner, Ever After is out now. She’s also a frequent TV panellist and she podcasts and blogs.
Brighton Festival 2024. Connecting with Wonder
Brunswick Town House - Real Writers Circle Event. Theme: Place
York Literary Festival March 2025. Short Story workshop with Naomi Wood
York Literary Festival March 2025. Short Story workshop with Naomi Wood
York Literary Festival 2025
York Literary Festival March 2025. Short Story workshop with Naomi Wood
Professor Vybarr Cregan-Reid Author, academic and trustee of York Literary Festival
York Literary Festival 2025
York Literary Festival 2025
Collaboration
We actively collaborate with other arts organisations such as New Writing South, Brighton Festival and Brighton Dome, The IDA Project and York Literary Festival.
Congratulations to Cindy & Victoria of @realwriterscircle on a brilliantly entertaining Brighton Festival event last night, with authors Samuel Burr and Tanya Byrne. Cindy and Victoria are so supportive of Brighton authors, both published and yet to be published, and the monthly Real Writers Circle events are a great way for us to connect.
Thank you both for all your hard work and generosity.
Francis Quinn, author of The Smallest Man, That Bonesetter Woman and The Lost Passenger