This is an exciting opportunity to fit creative writing into your hectic week. Running as an informal rolling programme, you can come for just one term or stay throughout the year, knowing that for a precious hour you’ll be thrown ideas that will take your writing in new directions.

Running for 11 weeks (27 April to 6 July 2023) we will be experimenting with poetry and prose, working with dialogue and descriptive language, finding sources of inspiration in unexpected places and playing with imagery and figures of speech.

Join Maame Blue in this workshop as she takes you through guided readings of award-winning fiction about family, alongside useful writing exercises and feedback points to help you develop your own familial stories.

This course will run ONLINE from Thursday 17 - 31 August, Thursdays @ 18:30 - 20:30 VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA time

Intimate relationships are the centre of so many of the stories we wish to tell. How do we make connections – figurative and physical – between characters realistic? In this exciting short course, you’ll focus on the ins and outs of writing romance, developing your skills in crafting characters and scenes.

Our unmissable creative writing retreat is back for a second year – with fresh content, award-winning novelists, dedicated creative time and a community of fellow writers to help you put pen to paper and write.

Do you love reading about messy romantic entanglements, fraught family interactions or the multi-layered relationship with self? Would you like help to create more characters that drive these kinds of narratives?

Learn how to create your own complex characters by utilising context and breaking down character motivations.

Learn from some of the best genre-defying fiction writers experimenting with the notion of family, to help your own writing. Join award-winning author Maame Blue for this 3-hour online workshop.

This course will cover the basic aspects of novel writing, and is ideal for intermediate students who have an idea for a novel or a novel in progress. The syllabus will cover a wide variety of techniques including character, point of view, dialogue, structure and style. There is also an element of workshop in this course.

Running for 11 weeks (3 May to 12 July 2023) at 19:40 - 21:40 on Wednesday evenings, we will be covering issues of craft and content, including character, point of view, structure and style; examination of technical elements including dialogue, scene-building, and effective writing on a sentence-by-sentence level; keeping the reader's interest; workshopping of students' work.

During this one day online session, attendees will be given the space to pull from their own internal worlds and knowledge of working with people one-on-one, to take part in creative writing lessons that will teach them how to create authentic, multi-layered characters on the page. This will be especially valuable to members who want an alternative creative outlet for taking care of their own wellbeing as practitioners outside of the consulting room.

This event will include the following:

• Incorporating self-perception into your character creation

• Looking at examples in fiction

• Learning how to create context for characters

• Writing our own complex characters.

This is an exciting opportunity to fit creative writing into your hectic week. Running as an informal rolling programme, you can come for just one term or stay throughout the year, knowing that for a precious hour you’ll be thrown ideas that will take your writing in new directions.

Running for 11 weeks (27 April to 6 July 2023) we will be experimenting with poetry and prose, working with dialogue and descriptive language, finding sources of inspiration in unexpected places and playing with imagery and figures of speech.

Find joy in readings and live drawing with illustrator Dapo Adeola, as he presents his newly curated book Joyful, Joyful: Stories Celebrating Black Voices.

He’s joined by the other members of a much-loved and inspirational trio, writers Hannah Lee and Maame Blue.

Through interactive readings and live drawing they show how important it is to ensure that the stories of all children are committed, loud and proud, to the page.

Panel discussion celebrating Black love in all its essence from familial, community, friendship, romantic, nature and self with Ayanna Lloyd Banwo‘s When We Were Birds, Jendella Benson‘s Hope and Glory, Lizzie Damilola Blackburn‘s Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband? and Okechukwu Nzelu’s Here Again Now. Chaired by Maame Blue (author of Bad Love).

Join Maame Blue and Abena Karikari as they discuss Maame’s award-winning debut novel Bad Love.

Inspired by my debut novel Bad Love which won a Betty Trask Award in 2021, this workshop will cover character self-perception and will focus on contemporary texts as examples, with writing exercises included.

For a chance to learn how to make your sex scenes sizzle and your romance jump off the page, join award winning author of the novel Bad Love, Maame Blue in this incredible sex and romance writing workshop.

Do you have a story idea featuring flawed characters that you can’t quite get down on the page? Wondering how best to feature your fictional relationship foibles? In this Arvon masterclass with award-winning author Maame Blue you will break down complex characters by exploring different points of view, and experimenting with setting and environment to help crystalize the relationship story you want to tell.

Come along to this special free event celebrating the launch of the City of Stories Home Anthology featuring talented new writers from across London, alongside published authors.

Take part in a relaxed creative writing taster session for those who would like to give writing a go or are already writers, and then hear local authors read their stories and pick up your own free copy of the Anthology.

Come along to this special free event celebrating the launch of the City of Stories Home Anthology featuring talented new writers from across London, alongside published authors.

Take part in a relaxed creative writing taster session for those who would like to give writing a go or are already writers, and then hear local authors read their stories and pick up your own free copy of the Anthology.

Come along to this special free event celebrating the launch of the City of Stories Home Anthology featuring talented new writers from across London, alongside published authors.

Take part in a relaxed creative writing taster session for those who would like to give writing a go or are already writers, and then hear local authors read their stories and pick up your own free copy of the Anthology.

Are you interested in writing about complex relationships – romantic, familial or otherwise? This introduction to Writing Complicated Relationships will help you take the first step.

Vimbai Shire, Zaahida Nabagereka and Olivia Danso (Maame Blue) discuss the importance of widening access to African Literatures in UK secondary schools and higher education and the Caine Prize's impact on the UK literary scene for writers from Africa and of African descent.

Join Maame Blue to discuss her debut novel Bad Love.

Come along to Berkelouw Paddington Bookshop where Maame Blue will be signing copies of Bad Love!

This is Who We Are: Writing Desire and Finding Wellbeing

A workshop for staff and students presented by the Publishing & Communications and Creative Writing Programs in the School of Culture and Communication in conjunction with Renaissance One.

With author Maame Blue as part of the This is Who We Are (TIWWA) Project.

Bad Love Book Talk with New International Books

NIBS volunteer in conversation with Alex Nylén-White and Maame Blue about Blue’s book “Bad Love”. Blue will also be doing a reading of her book.

Join us for a drink at 5pm.

Join us for a free online City of Stories Home writing workshop at Harrow Library with writer Maame Blue

Join us for a free online City of Stories Home writing workshop at Kingston Library with writer Maame Blue