The Word Factory

The train is ready to leave! Join @SophieHaydock for her brilliant AS Byatt focussed Word Factory online masterclass on Wednesday July 16th. Hosted by @cathygalvin1 tinyurl.com/yn59tksr

Don't miss our next Small Like A Bullet masterclass with the award-winning Jonathan Taylor @crystalclearjt - an intense one and half hour online insight into the short story form. tinyurl.com/4cum7a3c

Our next short story club: Claire Carroll presented by Scratch Books publisher Tom Conaghan. May 13 7pm! tinyurl.com/3ummubdv

The short story as a precocious, rebellious form: join us exploring the rebel child of fiction in a @WordFactoryUK masterclass with Tom Vowler hosted by @cathygalvin1 May 7 Booking here: tinyurl.com/49d323ae #shortstories

The short story as a precocious, rebellious form: join me exploring the rebel child of fiction in a @WordFactoryUK masterclass with Tom Vowler, May 7; Booking here: tinyurl.com/49d323ae #shortstories

Short Story Club alert! Join us in a discussion of Carys Davies's classic short story, The Coat on April 30th online, presented by Tom Harvey tinyurl.com/4svhtcdr

Here’s a short story of mine that was used as the basis of an Easter sermon by an English vicar! I’m reading it here after I wrote it 2014 ⁦@WordFactoryUK⁩ introduced by ⁦@cathygalvin1⁩. It’s the first story in collection ‘I Hear You’ youtu.be/SPQlS1d4BN0

Great story @crystalclearjt

Our March short story club is here! Wed 26th: Giselle Leeb introduces George Saunders' Jon: eventbrite.co.uk/e/word-factory…

Announcing our new series of exclusive online masterclasses. Five distinguished writers will take one of their own stories as a springboard for insights into writing and editing starting with the wonderful Lucy Caldwell on April 9th. Selling fast!tinyurl.com/6p8jxkt6

Don't miss our February 27 short story club focused on Saba Sams' Blue4Eva & hosted by the wonderful @DevaneEmily #Sabasams @cathygalvin1 eventbrite.co.uk/e/word-factory…

Live event! Launching @paul_mc_veigh latest collection March 21. With the wonderful Kit de Waal in conversation. Hsted by Cathy Galvin. @cathygalvin1 @KitdeWaal tinyurl.com/2vyv25rb

Kickstarting 2025 with our short story club focus on Yan Ge: join us online on January 23 at 7pm with @HanaKhalique and @cathygalvin1 More here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/word-factory…

Ready to Make a New Commitment To Your Writing? You can work with author/editor/educator Leone Ross. 1: THE PUSH YOU NEED. An intensive 4-session/daily practice to kickstart your process. Feb 16. 2: THE NOVEL SURGERY. 5 weeks to assess your novel in progress. [email protected]

And so from Cornwall: our next short story club (Nov 21) focuses on Daphne Du Maurier's Don't Look Now hosted from the edge of Bodmin Moor by @cathygalvin1 : Tickets & more: tinyurl.com/uh4d9aw6 @WorksLiterature @CornwallLive

My debut collection of short stories that have been on @BBCRadio4 collected as ‘I hear You’ out with the brilliant @saltpublishing next March. Some of these written while funded by @ArtsCouncilNI and some thanks to @artscouncil_ie - thanks to @WordFactoryUK & @cathygalvin1 too

If you need another reason to come celebrate The Book of Coventry with us this Thursday @FargoVillage, check out these Cov music bookmarks we’ll be giving out with copies 👀🎶 🎟️ get your tickets here eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-book-of-… 📘pre order the anthology commapress.co.uk/books/the-book…

Check out my latest article: Unlocking Story Potential: How Creative Story Coaching Enriches the Writing Process linkedin.com/pulse/unlockin… via @LinkedIn @WordFactoryUK @scratch_books @NewWritingNorth @bbcwritersroom @TheWritersGuild @CloreLeadership