London Writing Courses
Our London courses take place at the Faber offices in Hatton Garden. Find inspiration for your own writing inside the publishing house that has played home to thirteen Nobel laureates and seven Booker Prize winners, and continues to publish major literary voices like Sally Rooney and Kazuo Ishiguro.
Our London writing courses: an overview
We’ve been running in courses in Faber’s London offices since 2009 – an unrivalled opportunity for aspiring authors to step inside one of the world’s great independent publishing houses as they begin their own writing journey.
Our London courses are always capped at fifteen students per class – small enough for the group to form a bond and really engage with each other’s work, but with enough breadth of experience and interests to facilitate constructive, dynamic discussions in the room.
London Writing Courses (43)
Writing a Novel (Evening)
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Richard T. Kelly, Sarah May, Nikesh Shukla, Eimear McBride, Sara Jafari, Jessica Andrews
Writing a Novel (Daytime)
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Shelley Weiner, Sabrina Broadbent, Eimear McBride, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, Kate Maxwell
Start to Write
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Richard Skinner, Sarah May
Writing Evening – 9 January 2025
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Start Your Novel in Five Days
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Joanna Briscoe
Getting Started: Beginners' Fiction (Daytime)
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Sue Gee
Start Your Screenplay in Five Days
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Emma Jane Unsworth, Jessica Ruston
Creative Non-Fiction
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Rebecca Giggs
The Salon: Developing Your Poems
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Richard Scott, Rachel Long, Denise Riley, Maurice Riordan
Writing Fiction
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Keith Ridgway
London Course Tutors
Our London tutors are all published authors, handpicked from Faber and beyond, as well as experienced teachers with in-depth knowledge of the industry.
View all tutorsRichard Skinner
Richard Skinner is a novelist, poet and critic. His most recent book, The Mirror, was described as ‘beautifully written...
More About This TutorSarah May
Sarah May is the highly acclaimed author of seven novels, including The Nudist Colony, (shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award...
More About This TutorJoanna Briscoe
Joanna Briscoe is the author of the novels Mothers and Other Lovers, which won the Betty Trask Award; Skin; Sleep With Me, which...
More About This TutorSue Gee
Sue Gee is a novelist and short story writer who ran the MA Writing Programme at Middlesex University from 2000 till 2008...
More About This TutorEmma Jane Unsworth
Emma Jane Unsworth is a BAFTA-nominated, BIFA-winning screenwriter and best-selling novelist...
Rebecca Giggs
Rebecca Giggs is an author from Perth, Australia. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic...
More About This TutorRichard Scott
Richard Scott was born in London in 1981. His pamphlet Wound (Rialto) won the Michael Marks Poetry Award 2016 and his poem...
More About This TutorRachel Long
Rachel Long’s debut collection, My Darling from the Lions was published by Picador in the UK, in 2020, and by Tin House, in the US, in 2021. It was shortlisted for...
More About This TutorKeith Ridgway
Keith Ridgway is from Dublin. He is the author most recently of A Shock (Picador, New Directions, 2021), which was the winner...
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Jessica Ruston
Jessica Ruston is a screenwriter and novelist. Her first novel...
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Denise Riley
Denise Riley’s books are War in the Nursery: Theories of the Child and Mother (1983), ‘Am I That Name?’ Feminism and the Category of 'Women' in History...
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Maurice Riordan
Maurice Riordan was born in Co. Cork. His first book, A Word from the Loki (1995), was nominated for the T. S. Eliot Prize...
More About This TutorThe course is really well organised, and the team work hard to make the experience valuable and productive.
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