Teaching

I’ve been teaching creative writing since 2013. It’s one of the things I love about being a writer. It doesn’t feel like ‘teaching’ but like helping others find their voice and bring their stories into the world, whatever their age and writing experience. I teach individuals and groups, teenagers and septuagenarians, beginners and BA and MA classes…

If you’re looking for time and space to focus on your writing, my next writing retreats will run in March, June and September 2026 in the spectacular Bernese Oberland. For details and bookings, click here.

I’ve taught at the Geneva Writers’ Conference, where I also took part in the panel with Colin Grant, Susan Tiberghien and Wallis Wilde-Menozzi on approaches to writing about real people in memoir, non-fiction and historical fiction.

I’ve also led whole-day workshops at the wonderful Literaturhaus Zentralschweiz:

• 3 December 2022: on characterisation
• 14 January 2023: on story structure and plot development
• 18 March 2023: on sense of place
• 2 December 2023: writing craft and editing.

Click here for details. Based in the historic Rosenburg in beautiful Stans, Lit.Z is Central Switzerland’s literature hub, offering a lively, high-calibre programme in the cantons of Lucerne, Nidwalden, Obwalden, Schwyz, Uri and Zug.

If you’re looking for one-to-one creative-writing tuition, in person or online, feel free to contact me here. I also welcome approaches by writing groups.

On this page you can read about past workshops and lectures.

Photo credits:

Be Brave, Be Bold by Hope House Press.  Reproduced under CC licence via Unsplash.

Map by rawpixel.com. Reproduced under CC licence via Unsplash.

Hiker by Dan Gold. Reproduced under CC licence via Unsplash.