Creative Writing Workshop – Colliers Wood

Wimbledon BookFest – in partnership with the University of Roehampton – is returning with our hugely popular series of workshops exploring creative writing.

Led by professional writers, the workshops will take place in Wimbledon and Colliers Wood libraries – £60 for three sessions with free places available to residents in the CR4, CR7, SM3 and SM4 postcodes.

Courses will take place on Fridays (7 March, 14 March and 21 March) and are a block booking for three sessions at one of the selected libraries. They will run from 10am to 12 noon.

Whether you’re just starting out on your writing journey, wanting to develop your craft, or simply looking to explore different ways of telling your story, our workshops are the perfect way to get your creativity flowing and release the author within you, with your short story being published in an anthology at the end of the course.

Get 2025 off to a creative start with Wimbledon Bookfest!

Course facilitators:

Saima Mir is an award-winning journalist and writer, whose crime debut The Khan was a Times crime novel of the year. (Colliers Wood)

Juan Tafur is a writer, translator and dramatist, who is the Chief Curator at Southside House where he runs regular storytelling events and workshops. (Wimbledon)

Tim Atkins is an internationally published writer, poet and playwright, as well as a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Roehampton. Tim will be leading the Intermediate writing course, for those who participated in last year’s workshops (Colliers Wood)

The workshops are part of the Merton Arts Project-supported by Arts Council England.