Absolute Beginner Creative Writing Course

A five-week biweekly creative writing course designed for beginners and people who want to establish a writing practice. In this five session course, we will explore various areas of creative writing and help you establish a solid foundation in your writing practice. We will work on finding your own individual path and goals for your writing. The prompts we use in this class will be suitable for fiction, nonfiction, or poetry. This is a beginner-friendly course, designed to help novice writers (or people who have never written but always wanted to) get words on the page and develop their own writing practice. We will spend our time doing writing exercises, exploring craft, and discussing various aspects of the writing process. I will give you exercises and tips to take home to build a writing practice. There will be the opportunity to share your writing, but it is not obligatory.​​ This will be a friendly, fun, and open space to get words on the page, build confidence in your writing, develop your own writing practice, and build a writing community with the other participants in the workshop. The five sessions wil be two hour biweekly sessions starting in November 2026 • Saturday, November 21st 10:30 am - 12:30 pm • Saturday, December 5th 10:30 am - 12:30 pm • Saturday, December 19th 10:30 am - 12:30 pm • Saturday, January 9th 10:30 am - 12:30 pm • Saturday, January 23rd 10:30 am - 12:30 pm Attendance policy: If you have to miss a session, I will give you all the material you missed, but not a refund for that session. Refund policy for the whole course as follows: Please get in touch as soon as possible if you need a refund. If you cancel more than 7 days before the course begins: full refund If you cancel less than 7 days before the course begins: 50% refund If you cancel after the course has begun: no refund (but you will receive all the materials from the course) About your facilitator: Raquel Vogl is an American writer, musician, and teacher. She has taught English and writing for years in a variety of settings. Raquel loves helping people find their creative voice and facilitating their expression and writing. She has had work published in Storgy, The Sheffield Review, and the Donna Collective among other places. In her musical life, she has released multiple records and toured the United States, and she continues to investigate the writing spectrum from song to the written word with her band Persona, recently releasing a record on the label Sonido Polifonico. Please Note: • 18+ only • The Writers Workshop's space has no step-free access. We apologise for any disappointment (we are working on finding a fully accessible venue). • Refreshments and writing materials are available. • Booking essential. No walkups. The Writers Workshop is a nonprofit social enterprise and members are our lifeblood. If you love to write, please consider joining! Some feedback from some of Raquel's recent workshops: A great supportive class. I wrote far more than I expected, and am surprisingly much happier with my efforts than I expected to! I finally defeated my inner critic and came to a Beginner’s Writing Workshop. Turns out I can write! And so could everyone else with us. I loved the session, an amazing outlet for someone that enjoys writing as a hobby. Lovely company with kind people to bounce ideas off. Raquel brought really fun exercises to keep the hand moving! I loved this workshop! Brilliant. The prompts gave me so much space to be imaginative. I can definitely use these prompts to write short stories and I’m feeling very motivated. How did we do so much in two hours!? Raquel really made us immediately comfortable, and had some brilliant prompts to get writing. Her passion was very inspirational. How fulfilling!