Right now you have fragments in your phone notes, and ideas and moments you register but then lose. You’re carrying all these promising ideas without writing them down.

By August, you'll have vivid pages drawn from your life. A deeply fulfilling writing practice you can sustain & and enough material to actually submit somewhere :)

In Living Material, you’ll learn to identify & write from the material that’s already right in front of you. Because you don’t need to wait for a ‘big idea’ or dramatic story. 

You’ll work with methods like ‘Big Chaotic Doc’ and prompts inspired by writers who playfully exemplify working from the material of life. In the sessions you’ll work with creative exercises that turn fragments into pages – and delicious tools you'll use again and again.

Starts: Saturday 30 May 2026 (doors close 28 May)
Duration: 6 fortnightly Saturdays across 12 weeks
Time: 10-11:30am UK time
Format: Live on Zoom (recordings provided)
£299 (sliding options available)

Six 90-minute workshops:

Week 1 (30 May): Detail in the Everyday
Week 2 (13 June): Collecting from Life
Week 3 (27 June): Noticing Ourselves
Week 4 (11 July): Writing as Compost
Week 5 (25 July): Delicious Restriction
Week 6 (8 Aug): Finding Your Narrative Themes

More detail about Living Material

“I got so much out of the Living Material. I normally work across lots of notebooks and my notes app. It’s so easy to feel so overwhelmed by it all. Since you introduced your concept of ‘Big Chaos Doc’, and I started my own big messy document, my writing has been going so well.

I was really struck by how connected i felt and how easily i became immersed in the prompts. You’ve been a big inspiration and enabler of creativity to me. Thank you!” – K

Pricing options:

Early bird (waitlist only) until Sun 24 May
£299 – Standard
£325 – Supporter (helps fund subsidised spots)
£269 – Subsidised (2 spots available)

General price from Mon 25 May
£399

Spots are non-refundable.

Closes 28 May. Starts 30 May.