Chartley Writers' Studio
Online writing rooms, workshops, intensives, and year-long creative practice programmes for writers of all kinds.
Hosted by Chartley Books
Hosted by Chartley Books
Online creative writing workshops, writing rooms and courses for writers of all kinds
Chartley Writers’ Studio is a creative writing community for poets, memoirists, fiction writers and reflective writers who want structure, encouragement and regular time to write.
Hosted by Chartley Books, the Studio offers online writing rooms, short creative writing workshops, seasonal intensives and longer writing courses designed to help you develop your craft, deepen your voice and build a sustainable writing practice.
Whether you are beginning again, working on a long-term project, writing memoir, experimenting with poetry, or developing fiction, you are welcome here.
Hosted by Chartley Books, the Studio offers online writing rooms, short creative writing workshops, seasonal intensives and longer writing courses designed to help you develop your craft, deepen your voice and build a sustainable writing practice.
Whether you are beginning again, working on a long-term project, writing memoir, experimenting with poetry, or developing fiction, you are welcome here.
Writing as practice
Good writing is not built by inspiration alone. It develops through attention, repetition, reflection and honest creative work.
Chartley Writers’ Studio exists to give writers a calm, thoughtful space in which to practise. Our sessions are designed for writers who want more than accountability, but less pressure than a formal academic course. You will be invited to notice more closely, write more bravely, revise more intelligently and take your creative work seriously.
The focus is not on quick fixes or promises of instant publication. It is on becoming a stronger, more attentive and more confident writer over time.
Chartley Writers’ Studio exists to give writers a calm, thoughtful space in which to practise. Our sessions are designed for writers who want more than accountability, but less pressure than a formal academic course. You will be invited to notice more closely, write more bravely, revise more intelligently and take your creative work seriously.
The focus is not on quick fixes or promises of instant publication. It is on becoming a stronger, more attentive and more confident writer over time.
Current programmes
The Writing Room
A relaxed online writing session for writers working on any project.
Bring your notebook, laptop, draft, poem, memoir, novel, essay or blank page. We gather online, settle in, write together in focused silence, and end with a short optional check-in.
Ideal for writers who want regular writing time, gentle accountability and the companionship of writing alongside others.
Book a place
Bring your notebook, laptop, draft, poem, memoir, novel, essay or blank page. We gather online, settle in, write together in focused silence, and end with a short optional check-in.
Ideal for writers who want regular writing time, gentle accountability and the companionship of writing alongside others.
Book a place
Summer Studio
A four-week online creative writing intensive exploring the foundations of strong writing: observation, voice, character and meaning.
Each session includes a short craft focus, a warm-up exercise, a longer writing exercise and reflection prompts to help you develop your own creative practice.
Suitable for poets, memoirists, fiction writers and anyone returning to writing.
Join the interest list
Each session includes a short craft focus, a warm-up exercise, a longer writing exercise and reflection prompts to help you develop your own creative practice.
Suitable for poets, memoirists, fiction writers and anyone returning to writing.
Join the interest list
The Writer’s Year
A year-long creative writing programme built around 50 weeks of progressive exercises, craft practice and reflection.
The Writer’s Year is designed to help writers develop across the full range of creative skills: observation, sensory precision, emotional honesty, voice, metaphor, rhythm, character, tension, memory, moral complexity, revision and thematic coherence.
The full programme is in development, with the book and course planned as part of the Chartley Writers’ Studio.
Register your interest
The Writer’s Year is designed to help writers develop across the full range of creative skills: observation, sensory precision, emotional honesty, voice, metaphor, rhythm, character, tension, memory, moral complexity, revision and thematic coherence.
The full programme is in development, with the book and course planned as part of the Chartley Writers’ Studio.
Register your interest
Who is Chartley Writers’ Studio for?
Chartley Writers’ Studio is for writers at different stages of the creative life.
You may be:
You may be:
- a poet looking for fresh creative exercises
- a memoir writer shaping memory into art
- a novelist needing structure and momentum
- a beginner who wants a welcoming place to start
- a returning writer trying to rebuild confidence
- an experienced writer looking for community and renewal
The Writing Room
The Friday Writing Room is a regular online space for protected writing time.
There is no pressure to share work and no requirement to be working on a particular genre. You can use the session for drafting, revising, planning, journalling, editing, researching or simply returning to the page.
A typical session includes:
Book The Friday Writing Room
There is no pressure to share work and no requirement to be working on a particular genre. You can use the session for drafting, revising, planning, journalling, editing, researching or simply returning to the page.
A typical session includes:
- a brief welcome
- quiet focused writing time
- a short pause
- a second writing period
- optional closing reflection
Book The Friday Writing Room
Coming soon: The Writer’s Year
The Writer’s Year is the flagship Chartley Writers’ Studio programme: a full year of guided creative practice for writers who want to develop their craft steadily and seriously.
Across 50 sessions, writers move through four creative stages:
Join the interest list for The Writer’s Year
Across 50 sessions, writers move through four creative stages:
- Seeing: Learning attention, observation, sensory detail and place.
- Voice: Developing rhythm, tone, language, style and emotional honesty.
- People: Writing desire, contradiction, dialogue, power, intimacy and moral pressure.
- Meaning: Building structure, symbolism, tension, revision and thematic coherence.
Join the interest list for The Writer’s Year
About Chartley Writers’ Studio
Chartley Writers’ Studio is part of Chartley Books, an independent literary project dedicated to writing, reading, publishing and creative development.
The Studio was created to offer writers a more thoughtful kind of creative space: structured enough to be useful, flexible enough to be welcoming, and serious enough to honour the work.
Our aim is to help writers build not only individual pieces, but a lasting writing practice.
The Studio was created to offer writers a more thoughtful kind of creative space: structured enough to be useful, flexible enough to be welcoming, and serious enough to honour the work.
Our aim is to help writers build not only individual pieces, but a lasting writing practice.