Online Workshops
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Creative Writing Online Workshops
'A brilliant environment for learning and sharing’ ​
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I have been running regular Bath and Bristol based writing workshops for many years. Since the pandemic, I mainly run workshops online. This enables participants to join from anywhere in the world, from the comfort of their own writing space. The group meets on Zoom, on a Saturday morning.
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For all scheduled online workshops see below.
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All workshops are run by me, Clare Reddaway, founder of A Word In Your Ear. I am an experienced facilitator, award-winning short story writer and playwright. You can read more about my work here and read testimonials from my workshop participants here.
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All workshops run from 10.00-12.30 on Saturday mornings.
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The workshops cost £12 for each session, except for the October workshop which is £14.
​You are welcome to book individual workshops via Eventbrite (see links below).
If you’d like to block book the four scheduled zoom workshops from September-December for £50 you can escape the Eventbrite fee by booking direct with me. Please get in touch for bank details.
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New writing workshops scheduled for Autumn 2025
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Let's Talk Stories is back! Click here for dates
Zoom Workshops
6th September 2025: The Art of Noticing
In this session we will open our eyes and observe the spectacle of the ordinary. We will practice, as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle put it, “the observation of trifles.” It's about staying eager, connecting and finding interest in the everyday and noticing what others overlook.
11th October 2025: Poetry for the Petrified
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With visiting tutor Mel Greenwood
A poetry workshop for the petrified….Or even mildly apprehensive. If you last looked at poetry when you were at school and felt put-off, weary, anxious at form, rhyme and meter, please look again. Let’s call poetry taking photographs with words. It doesn’t have to rhyme. It doesn’t have to be in verse. That can come later with editing or not at all. This is about how to communicate your personal experiences. Poetry is the language of the heart. Your heart.
We will experiment with form but the most important criteria is telling your truth as you see it; whether that is looking at nature, friendships, family, the way the sunset feels, loss and joy. This is your chance to colour your view of the world in your own words. To look at a moment in life and make it breathe.
Melanie Greenwood is a former regional and national journalist. Her novel, 'The Blue Hour' was published in 2022. She has had poetry published and teaches regularly.
8th November, 2025: Deepen Your Characters
This is a skills workshop. We will be finding some techniques for you to deepen your characters, make them more three dimensional, more nuanced, more human. We’ll make ‘em laugh and make ‘em cry, and make your readers do that all important thing – care about their fate.
13th December, 2025: Fact into Fiction
As writers and readers, we are all searching for authenticity, particularly today, when truth appears so porous and open to interpretation. This is a workshop where we will be looking at the line between fact and fiction. We will explore how to use fact – whether from your own personal experience or the public realm - to root your fiction in reality.