The South London Writing School presents a series of creative writing courses and Sunday Masterclasses housed in our very own, and newly developed, events space at  Bookseller Crow bookshop.

NEW DATES

Tuesday 27th January – 3rd March, 7.30 – 9.30pm (six evenings)

Creative Writing: Fiction from life with Karen McLeod

This six week creative writing course is led by award-winning author and performer Karen McLeod. Weekly sessions provide the structure to help you start writing and find what it is you want to write. Karen introduces the importance of craft, while equally encouraging experimentation to discover your writing voice and see the world as a major source of inspiration. More details and BOOK HERE 

To ask a question about any of our courses, email: sc************@*****il.com 

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Participant feedback

“The main thing I wanted to say was ‘thank you’. When I took your course, I had a real case of lost mojo. I found you properly inspiring and your approach to life writing really helped me reconnect with myself. The book I’m working on had its genesis in your class so you had a very real impact.”

“I got exactly what I wanted and needed on your course! I was looking for ways to access writing that felt all locked up inside of me and I didn’t want to ‘learn to write like everyone else’… Thank you for an absolutely fantastic course.”

“I loved the course – it knocked me off my normal pattern of thinking and got me to try new things! Also I got some really useful feedback.”

Your creative writing tutor Karen McLeod
Karen McLeod is a prize-winning author In Search Of The Missing Eyelash and performer of comic poet Barbara Brownskirt. She holds an MA in Creative Life Writing from Goldsmiths University and is Bookseller Crow’s writer-in-residence and literary events co-ordinator. Her memoir on flying as cabin crew, Lifting Off, was published in 2024. For twelve years Karen worked for British Airways as cabin crew and it was this experience which sent her into freefall, and years later became the subject and ‘container’ for Lifting Off.

For the last twelve years she has run Creative Writing courses within the bookshop. These workshops have proved hugely popular and are often fully booked. The formats works both creatively and for the community, linking together creatives from Crystal Palace, South-East London and beyond. Karen also teaches for the National Writing Centre, Norwich and the Arvon Foundation.

Those attending have gone on to write successful TV dramas, radio plays, poetry, novels and performance. In 2019 Kate Davies had her debut novel published, In At The Deep End by Borough Press and in 2020 it won the Polari prize. Fiona Keating’s novel Smoke and Silk will be published by Headline Books in 2025. Many writers attending the classes form strong friendships and continue to meet up in their own writing groups.

See Karen’s website www.karenmcleod.co.uk