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Upcoming events
Nov 1 - Dec 18
Take a deep dive into your writing habits with this 6-week online course for academic and professional writers who want to write more prolifically, efficiently, and with greater confidence and pleasure. Join international writing expert Helen Sword and fellow writers from around the world as we try out an array of research-based strategies for writing powerfully, productively, playfully, and without fear.
December 16 & 17
WriteSPACE Special Event: The WriteSPACE in 2026
For a preview of what’s coming up in the WriteSPACE in 2026 — plus a generous discount offer! — we warmly invite you to join founder Helen Sword and events manager Amy Lewis for our final Special Event of 2025. The information session in the first hour is free to all who register. In the second hour, we’ll host a valedictory Live Writing Studio party for WriteSPACE and WS Studio members.
January 1-30, 2026
30-Day Writing with Pleasure Challenge
A FREE daily video series!
Kick off your writing year with a daily dose of pleasure!
Sign up to receive daily prompts inviting you to write with pleasure for at least 25 minutes a day every day throughout the month of January 2026.
Jan 31-Mar 12, 2026
Join writing expert Helen Sword and other writers from around the world as we explore writing-related pleasure in its many guises. Across six weeks of writing exercises, workshops, and prompts, Helen will introduce you to six key dimensions of pleasurable writing — patterns, tools, processes, identity, challenge, balance — and guide you through a sequence of pleasure prompts designed to transform your writing practice from a painful chore to a enjoyable challenge.
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Browse our clickable calendar to see upcoming events in your own time zone. Zoom links for all sessions can be found in the members-only WriteSPACE Calendars.
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