London Writing Courses
Our London courses take place at the Faber offices in the heart of literary Bloomsbury. 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.
Easily accessible by public transport, you'll find us next to the British Museum, with beautiful Russell Square just around the corner.
London Writing Courses (8)
Start to Write
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Richard Skinner, Sarah May
The Advanced Fiction Workshop
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Gillian Slovo
Start to Write Poetry
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Richard Scott
Start to Write
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Richard Skinner, Sarah May
Getting Started: Beginners' Fiction
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Mick Jackson
Writing for Children
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Anthony McGowan
Writing Fiction
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Keith Ridgway
The Salon: Developing Your Poems
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Maurice Riordan, Richard Scott, Daljit Nagra
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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Sarah May
Sarah May is the highly acclaimed author of seven novels, including The Nudist Colony, which was shortlisted for the Guardian...
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Gillian Slovo
Gillian Slovo has published thirteen novels, a family memoir and has also written three verbatim plays. She started in crime...
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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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Mick Jackson
Mick is a Booker Prize–shortlisted author of four novels and two collections of short stories. His novels – The Underground Man...
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Anthony McGowan
Anthony McGowan has written highly acclaimed and award winning fiction and non-fiction for adults, teenagers and younger children...
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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...
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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Daljit Nagra
Daljit Nagra has published four poetry collections with Faber & Faber. He has won the Forward Prize for Best Individual Poem...
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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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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