Writing retreats

Online Workshops

How to Self-Edit Your Manuscript

With Dr. Kate Forsyth

Editing is a crucial stage of writing a creative piece of writing – it brings focus, clarity and luminosity to your manuscript and makes it shine out of any slush pile. But editing is not simply correcting typos and moving commas. Editing a manuscript involves many ‘big picture’ considerations.

What about mood, atmosphere, and foreshadowing? How can you craft a compelling beginning and polish the ending to leave your story in the minds of readers for many years?

In this introductory course, you will learn self-editing techniques to help you improve your manuscript. This self-paced, on-demand course will focus on:
• Examining the big picture
• The power of opening and closing lines
• Looking at chapter length
• Developing mood and atmosphere
• Editing to maintain a strong voice throughout the manuscript
• Gaining new insight into your own writing strengths and flaws.

History, Mystery and Magic

with Dr Kate Forsyth

Online Self Paced Course with 12 months access

Most readers want a book that sweeps you away to another place, a
book so compelling and immersive it feels like the pages are flying
past by themselves. Yet creating such compulsively readable fiction
can be a challenge for the writer, with one of the greatest difficulties
being avoiding a plot that feels predictable and stale.

In this unique series of in-depth workshops, Dr Kate Forsyth delves
into the tropes of five of the world’s most loved genres, seeking to
understand what draws readers to that sort of fiction and what
lessons can be learned from the techniques of masters of the field.

In each module, excerpts from the novels of two internationally bestselling authors are studied comprehensively to ascertain how they develop character, plot, setting, dialogue and voice in different ways in their work.

Dare to Dream
a creative writing course like no other

Find your voice and tell your story with Dr Kate Forsyth

Online Self Paced Course with 12 months access

‘Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it;
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.’
–Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In this unique and inspiring course, bestselling author and creative writing mentor Dr Kate Forsyth helps you unlock the door to your unconscious and find joy, inspiration, vitality and empowerment in telling your story. This course is for anyone who has a story they wish to tell, even if they have never written a word before, or written hundreds of thousands. It aims to inspire, empower and energise you, and help you understand the fears that are holding you back from writing to your full potential.

Plotting and Planning
Online workshop

Self-paced workshop with guided video content
with unlimited access for 12 months

This course is ideal for fiction writers looking for more structure and is designed to give you practical techniques to help plot your novel – from the very first idea to the final narrative arc.

It will illuminate the underlying structure of a novel and discuss different approaches to plotting, from mind-mapping to plot-lines, to chapter and scene breakdowns

You will learn:

The basic formula for all stories
Intuitive approach versus the analytical approach
The seven basic plots you need to know
How to keep your reader glued to your plot
And much more.

Creative Writing in Scotland

WITH KATE FORSYTH

Writing Retreat
EDINBURGH, PERTHSHIRE - SCOTLAND

5-13 October 2025

Join internationally bestselling author Kate Forsyth for a week in Scotland at a writing retreat designed to help you rediscover your creativity and joy in writing. Writers at any stage of their careers will find inspiration in the land of lochs and legends and receive expert advice on all aspects of creative writing.

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Writing Retreats

Creative Writing in the Cotswolds

With Dr Kate Forsyth

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Join internationally bestselling author Kate Forsyth for a week in Stratford-upon-Avon at a writing retreat designed to help you rediscover your creativity and joy in writing.

Writers at any stage of their careers, from those who have always wanted to write but never found the time, as well as those who are deeply immersed in a creative project and want to take it to the next level, will benefit from Kate’s expert advice on all aspects of creative writing.

Let your imagination wander as you roam the glorious countryside of Oxford and the Cotswolds, a landscape that has inspired some of the world’s most beloved authors.

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A Literary Tour of Greece

Athens, Hydra, Crete
24 Sept - 3 Oct 2025

From ancient Myths to Modern Storytellers: A literary tour of Greece with Kate Forsyth.

Join kate Forsyth on a 10-day literary odyssey through Athens, Hydra and Crete, exploring the myths and stories of this fabled land.

Greek myths have never been so popular, with many contemporary writers breathing new life and vigour into stories that have shaped Western thought for centuries. Its fabled landscapes have also been the inspiration for many modern storytellers. Join me on this spellbinding literary tour of Greece to experience the best of Greek culture with a particular focus on how its ancient myths continue to inspire art and literature today.

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