Helping you to find
your inner writer
Write in a fun and supportive environment. Workshops for new and experienced writers.
Our story
We are Doctors Poppy Sall and Alyson Morris, published writers who have taught on, and directed, university degrees. Since 2021, we have been running Creative Writing workshops in Leamington Spa. Our topics include Short Stories, Flash Fiction, Poetry, Memoir, Finding an Agent and Getting Published. Our workshops, which are different to writing groups, encourage participants to write using fun exercises. The exercises include background information, so participants learn as they write. The workshops are suitable for everyone. Our participants say, ‘A great, creative atmosphere every time.’ … ‘Excellent teaching – always a great range of activities.’ We also run workshops (locally and nationally) for festivals, companies, schools and social events such as parties.
Poppy Sall is a former lawyer who changed direction to study for an MA in Creative Writing and a PhD in excavating hidden histories through historical fiction. Poppy is the co-author of Remembering Sophia a children’s picture book which tells the story of Princess Sophia Duleep Singh, who was a leading member of the suffragette movement.
Poppy is currently working on her novel 'Sepoy' which tells the story of an Indian soldier fighting in the First World War.
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Find more about her published book:
Alyson Morris has a Ph.D. in Creative Nonfiction and Memoir, and an MA in Creative Writing. Since 2007, she has published academic papers, short stories and poetry. Alyson has recently retired from university, where she was Course Director for an English and Creative Writing degree, which she introduced in 2012. Alyson also taught on an MA for Professional Creative Writing. While at university, she started a Creative Writing magazine for students called CovWords, which published annually from 2007 until she retired.
Prior to her university career, she taught English as a Second Language, and worked for a children’s publishers as Project Manager.
She is currently writing a novel about her great grandmother’s hotel, with a mixture of fact and fiction.
What people are saying...
"Workshops are amazing. Highly recommend them."
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Some 'Painfully British Haikus' (ref. the book by Dale Shaw) by one of our workshoppers - Peter.
Frozen chips are fine
but you must heat the gravy.
And nine bags of salt.
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Just one or two drinks
and a bit of a sing-song?
And a fight perhaps?
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Ice cream down my arm
and a Flake up my nostril.
What could be better?
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No, after you please.
Oh no, really, do go first.
How pushy was that?