Write-Now is a small consultancy offering a range of services that promote good writing. I facilitate creative writing workshops, professional writing courses, write-shops for groups co-authoring a publication, and writing support processes for post-graduate students. My editorial services ensure that you achieve a finished product that captures your purpose, key messages and personality with flair. I specialise in editing collaborative publications, plain English editing, and working with those writing in their second language.
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Creative Writing Courses

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    Write Through Your Heart: 23 - 26 May 2017 | 9h00 - 13h00

        Whether you write memoir, poetry, short stories, novels, blog posts, … or simply want an opportunity to try it out, this course offers an immersion in creative writing’s essential aspects to keep you writing through the heart. We’ll focus on observation, generative techniq[...]
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    Writing Short Stories: an email course - 2017 dates to be confirmed

        A story recounts a sequence of events. It tells us something about someone somewhere, and that something usually has to do with change … big or small. In short stories, the something is usually just one thing, one specific moment, event, incident, action, or conflict. Short s[...]
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    Write for Life - writing retreats: 6 March 2017 and .... (further dates tbc)

      Write for Life offers a range of facilitated writing retreats. The first retreat of 2017, focuses on what's good in life, and looks at Hope and her two beautiful daughters, Anger and Courage. This short retreat is for anyone wanting to ease into reflective writing or expand thei[...]

Professional Writing Courses

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    Academic Support Processes - available on request

    I offer writing workshops to small groups of post-graduate students.  The focus of each workshop depends on your needs, and can include ... experiencing academic writing as a creative process, enhancing writing skills, overcoming writing obstacles, building good habits, reviewing current status [...]
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    Write for Development: an approach to professional writing - also available on email

      Writing with voice is finding what you want to say, and having the conviction to say it. Craft is the means to say it well. Write for Development workshops are customised for each client and offer a range of writing tools, exercises and activities geared to enhance your capacity to doc[...]
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    Writeshops - available on request

    The general purpose of writeshops (from the words writing + workshop) is to involve a group of people in writing a joint publication such as a book, annual report, manual, collection of stories, research paper, learning history, organisational or community biography – anything that would benefit fro[...]

Enjoy browsing our website and learning more about Write-Now! Find out more about Creative Writing (click here) and Professional + Academic Writing Courses (click here).