BLF 2026 - Workshop: Courttia Newland
£30 bursaries available
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Birmingham Literature Festival 2026
Workshop: Finding the Way with Courttia Newland
Sometimes you have a great idea for a story but don’t know where to turn. Plotting is difficult, or you can’t connect with your characters, or you don’t know your theme, or dialogue is tough.
This general, all-round workshop with acclaimed author and screenwriter Courttia Newland is designed to free your instincts from overthinking, and remind what inspired you in the first place. Through exercises, discussions and text samples, you will find insights and tools to help to guide you through the writing process in a way that is creative, interactive and most of all fun.
Running time approx. two hours