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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)

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Novel Writing

Writing a Novel (Evening)

A comprehensive six-month writing course for the serious writer, with access to some of the biggest names in publishing.

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Advanced

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London

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6 month +

Tutors

Richard T. Kelly, Sarah May, Nikesh Shukla, Eimear McBride, Sara Jafari, Jessica Andrews

By Application

Start Date

Tuesday 28 Jan 2025

1 more start date available

Application Deadline

Sunday 12 Jan 2025

£4350
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Novel Writing

Writing a Novel (Daytime)

A comprehensive six-month writing course for the serious writer, with access to some of the biggest names in publishing.

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Advanced

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London

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6 month +

Tutors

Shelley Weiner, Sabrina Broadbent, Eimear McBride, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, Kate Maxwell

By Application

Start Date

Tuesday 28 Jan 2025

1 more start date available

Application Deadline

Sunday 12 Jan 2025

£4350
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Fiction Development

Start to Write

A no-excuses, let’s-get-going, beginners' creative writing course to kickstart your writing life.

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Starting out

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London

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1-5 days

Tutors

Richard Skinner, Sarah May

Start Date

Saturday 14 Dec 2024

10 more start dates available

£100
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Fiction Development

Writing Evening – 9 January 2025

Want some focused time to write alongside other writers? Join us at our central London offices for Faber Academy’s Writing Evening. 

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Starting out

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London

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1-5 days

Start Date

Thursday 09 Jan 2025

£20
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Fiction Development, Novel Writing

Start Your Novel in Five Days

Make this the year you write that novel. Come with an idea; leave with your opening pages and the inspiration you need to keep going.

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Starting out

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London

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1-5 days

Tutors

Joanna Briscoe

Start Date

Monday 13 Jan 2025

1 more start date available

£595
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Fiction Development, Novel Writing

Getting Started: Beginners' Fiction (Daytime)

A twelve-week creative writing course for beginners. Playful, serious and fun, it asks what writing is and why we do it.

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Starting out

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London

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12 weeks

Tutors

Sue Gee

Start Date

Wednesday 15 Jan 2025

£1095
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Fiction Development

Start Your Screenplay in Five Days

Start that screenplay you’ve always dreamt of writing and learn the basics of screenwriting with BAFTA-nominated screenwriter Emma Jane Unsworth.

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Starting out

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London

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1-5 days

Tutors

Emma Jane Unsworth, Jessica Ruston

Start Date

Monday 20 Jan 2025

£595
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Non-fiction

Creative Non-Fiction

Do you have a true story to tell? Learn how to craft narrative non-fiction with award-winning author, Rebecca Giggs.

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Starting out

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London

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12 weeks

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Rebecca Giggs

Start Date

Tuesday 21 Jan 2025

£1095
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Poetry

The Salon: Developing Your Poems

Join Richard Scott and Rachel Long for this twelve-week intermediate course – find new paths for your work, broaden your understanding of the craft and meet a group of supportive, like-minded poets.

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Improving

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London

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12 weeks

Tutors

Richard Scott, Rachel Long, Denise Riley, Maurice Riordan

Start Date

Thursday 23 Jan 2025

£795
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Fiction Development

Writing Fiction

This unique twelve-week course is about finding a way to write that is yours – whether you're starting out, starting again, or rethinking your approach to fiction writing.

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Improving

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London

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12 weeks

Tutors

Keith Ridgway

Start Date

Thursday 23 Jan 2025

1 more start date available

£1095
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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.

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Richard Skinner

Richard Skinner is a novelist, poet and critic. His most recent book, The Mirror, was described as ‘beautifully written...

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Richard Skinner
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Sarah May

Sarah May is the highly acclaimed author of seven novels, including The Nudist Colony, (shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award...

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Sarah May
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Joanna Briscoe

Joanna Briscoe is the author of the novels Mothers and Other Lovers, which won the Betty Trask Award; Skin; Sleep With Me, which...

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Joanna Briscoe
Sue Gee – Faber Academy's Getting Started with Fiction tutor

Sue Gee

Sue Gee is a novelist and short story writer who ran the MA Writing Programme at Middlesex University from 2000 till 2008...

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Sue Gee
Emme Jane Unsworth

Emma Jane Unsworth

Emma Jane Unsworth is a BAFTA-nominated, BIFA-winning screenwriter and best-selling novelist...

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Emma Jane Unsworth
Rebecca Giggs. Faber Academy tutor for creative non-fiction.

Rebecca Giggs

Rebecca Giggs is an author from Perth, Australia. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic...

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Rebecca Giggs
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Richard Scott

Richard Scott was born in London in 1981. His pamphlet Wound (Rialto) won the Michael Marks Poetry Award 2016 and his poem...

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Richard Scott
Rachel Long.

Rachel 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...

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Rachel Long
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Keith 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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Keith Ridgway
Jessica Ruston

Guest Tutor

Jessica Ruston

Jessica Ruston is a screenwriter and novelist. Her first novel...

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Jessica Ruston
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Guest Tutor

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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Denise Riley
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Guest Tutor

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...

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Maurice Riordan

I really felt part of the Faber family, and continue to do so [...] The course is really well organised, and the team work hard to make the experience valuable and productive.

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Writing a Novel

The course is really well organised, and the team work hard to make the experience valuable and productive.

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Manuscript Assessment

Get comprehensive editorial feedback on your manuscript from our experienced readers – whether it’s still a work-in-progress or you’re preparing to submit to literary agents.

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Mentoring

We offer a range of mentoring options if you’d prefer to work one-on-one with an established writer to help you shape your project and realise your writing ambitions.

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Browse the Reading Room

From author interviews and writing tips to creative writing exercises and reading lists, we've got everything you need to get started – and to keep going.