NEW: Creative Writing Workshops
and you're invited
Spring is here, and we often see the new season as an opportunity to refresh our thinking and perhaps, revisit the resolutions or promises we’ve given ourselves back in January. So, if you promised yourself to be more creative and invite curiosity and experimentation into your writing practice and your life in general, then you might find my offer interesting. I’ll be running a few creative writing workshops between May and the end of the year.
The first one is in person in Vino Tap, a beautiful wine bar in North-East London, and we will experiment with the multisensory ways of writing fiction. The workshop is part of the Highams Park Art Trail in May, and I’ll be collaborating with artists to ‘borrow’ their artworks as inspiration for this workshop. Limited spaces are available, so please book soon if interested.
Writing with All Senses
11th May, 2025 | London | Tickets
Through guided activities and creative prompts, you'll experiment with alternative ways of beholding art and everyday objects – listening, touching, imagining scent and texture – to develop fresh approaches to creative writing.
You’ll try innovative techniques that create a dialogue between your words and the displayed artwork, such as embodying the perspective of an artwork or collaborating in pairs to translate visual elements into rich, sensory descriptions.
The second workshop will be online and will explore how writing within limitations and constraints can liberate our creativity.
Writing to Constraints
12th June, 2025 | Online | Tickets
In this online creative writing workshop, we’ll explore the power of limitations as a tool for innovation. Through discussions, exercises, and real-world examples from literature, art, and music, we’ll discover how constraints can spark creativity and push storytelling boundaries.
From playing with form and structure to embracing external restrictions, you’ll learn to reframe limitations as opportunities for artistic growth.
We’ll draw inspiration from writers like Sheila Heti, whose novel Motherhood is structured through alphabetic diaries and interrogative writing, and Raymond Queneau, whose Exercises in Style tells the same simple story in ninety-nine different ways. By examining these works and others, we’ll uncover how constraints can be liberating rather than limiting.
Finally, I’m planning a workshop series which will be a bit more structured writing, still fun and experimental, and would love to know whether this is something you’d be interested in.
ELEMENTS: A creative writing workshop series
September – December 2025 | Online | Dates TBC
In Autumn 2025, I’ll be running Elements: a series of workshops, exploring fiction writing through Water, Fire, Air, and Earth. This series of four online workshops – running monthly from September to December – will look into different aspects of storytelling, whether you’re crafting novels or short stories.
Water: Find the flow. Shape rhythm, transitions, and pace into your narrative.
Fire: Strike the spark. Infuse energy, urgency, and momentum into your writing.
Air: Lighten the craft. Embrace playfulness, experimentation, and the freedom to break form.
Earth: Anchor your work. Ground your story to its purpose and shape it with clarity and strength.
Happy spring and, please, don’t forget to share with others, subscribe if you’re reading my newsletter for the first time, and let’s stay in touch.
Until next time,
Nataliya x