Tuesday 29th September 6-8pm, The Walrus, Ship St, BN1 1AD

Sustaining a writing life isn’t easy. Even the most successful and widely published writers must navigate a publishing industry in flux, grappling with AI and competing for eyeballs with streamers, TikTok and other social media. These industry realities mean writers may have to adapt and reinvent themselves as authors over the course of a career, switching genres or styles and writing under different pen names to appeal to different audiences. A copywriter, bookseller, and playwright before she switched to fiction, author of three thrillers (her latest written under the pseudonym Robin Brookes), Brooke Robinson will be talking to us about how to reinvent yourself as a writer.

Tuesday 20th October 6-8pm, Studio42, Kilburn Library, 42 Salusbury Road, London, NW6 6NN

Writers, join us in Studio42 in Kilburn Library to explore what motivates you, connect with other writers, and hear from Shrabani Basu, author of The Mystery of the Parsee Lawyer, Victoria & Abdul: The True Story of the Queen's Closest Confidant (now a major film with Judie Dench), Spy Princess: The Life of Noor Inayat Khan, and For King and Another Country: Indian Soldiers on the Western Front, 1914-18, as she talks about her work and her in depth historical research.

There will also be an opportunity for a short writing exercise and to share your work with the room. Open to any writer working across any genre or form at any stage of your writing journey, come with a pen, a notebook and your imagination.

Free tickets are available to writers who otherwise would not be able to attend.

Please let us know if you have any accessibility requirements.

We can't wait to hear why you write.

Tuesday 27th October 6-8pm, Brighton Friends Meeting House, Ship St, BN1 1AF

Calling Sussex-based Writers!

Join us in the main room in Brighton Friends Meeting House to explore what motivates you, connect with other writers, and hear from Dorothy Koomson, best-selling author of 23 novels, including her latest thrillerThe Quiet Girls, who will be talking about her creative life and her writing career that spans more than two decades.

There will also be an opportunity for a short writing exercise and to share your work with the room. Open to any writer working across any genre or form at any stage of your writing journey, come with a pen, a notebook and your imagination.

Free tickets are available to writers who otherwise would not be able to attend.

Please let us know if you have any accessibility requirements.

We can't wait to hear why you write.

Tuesday 30th June 6-8pm The Mesmerist, BN1 1HE

What can storytellers and memoirists learn about structure, voice, arcs and themes from a ghostwriter - an expert in crafting someone else's story into a compelling narrative?

Join us to hear from seasoned ghostwriter Helen Croydon about the nuts and bolts of channeling a client's story onto the page, the challenges and solutions, and how the publishing process works.

Helen will discuss her latest project, Forbidden Love, a memoir about adoption, published on 1 May. For an insider view of this secretive segment of the publishing industry.

Tuesday 31st March 6-8pm

The Mesmerist, BN1 1HE

Join the Real Writers Circle: Spring Reset!

In March, join us for a Spring Reset. Facilitated by author, academic and writing mentor Louise Tondeur, in tune with the changing of the season we'll revisit our writing goals, review what's working and what isn't, and explore how mindfulness can support our writing. Please come with your existing writing goals or intensions written down.

Tuesday 24 February, 6-8pm

The Walrus, Ship Street BN1 1AD

How do you write a compelling thriller that grabs your reader and keeps them on tenterhooks until the final page? Or maybe, your story needs some elements of suspense and intrigue that you can't quite identify or plot. Helping us discern what makes a reader shiver with anticipation/dread is SJ Watson, a master of the psychological thriller and author of three novels, including his smash hit debut Before I Go to Sleep, which has sold more than 6 million copies and been published in more than 40 languages.

Tuesday 27 January 6-8pm

The Walrus, Ship Street BN1 1AD

In our first event of the year, author and psychotherapist Emily Howse will be joining us as we explore intimacy in our writing - how we express physical, emotional, psychological and sexual closeness on the page - and maybe even with ourselves and our reader?

Emily will be sharing from her debut The Painters Daughters, which delves into a closely intertwined sister relationship, and give us a sneak peek from her soon-to-be-published second novel, Mrs Dickens.

Tuesday 25 November 2025 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.

Tuesday 28 October 2025, 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.

Tuesday 30 September2025 , 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.