Writing Tree Summer School 2026
Boost your writing with our fun, friendly classes this summer!
Following the success of last year’s summer courses, we’re back with four different classes for you to enjoyl.
Our classes are delivered on Zoom so you can take part from the comfort of your own space - and it’s up to you whether you’d prefer your camera on or off. Our tutors are friendly and enthusiastic, and want to share their expertise with you. All are experiened writers and tutors.
This year we want to help you liberate your writing! Whether it’s writing outside the lines, fresh approaches or finding peace with your inner critic, we hope you’ll find something to bring creativity and fun into your words.
Apart from Learning to LIve With Your Inner Critic, which is a three-week course, the sessions are one-off two hour classes which are repeated in a daytime and evening slot.
You can find full course information and book your places here, but just to whet your appetite, here’s what’s on offer:
Learning to Live with Your Inner Critic
Starts Tue 7 Jul 2026 for three weekly sessions. 7pm-9pm BST
Price: £30
Over three sessions on consecutive weeks we’ll support you to understand where your Inner Critic comes from and how you can use its powers for good!
5 Ways to Tell Your Life Story
Mon 20 Jul 2026 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM BST
Repeated Mon 27 Jul 2026 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM BST
Price £10
Writing your memoir or the biography of another person? This session gives you some ideas of how to tell life stories in fresh new ways that may better reflect the story you want to share.
Delicious Poetics
Wed 22 Jul 2026 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM BST
Repeated Wed 29 Jul 2026 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM BST
Price £10
In this yummy class, award winning poet Georgia Conlon invites you to write some food-inspired poetry. Bring snacks!
Beyond Form: Writing Without Limits
Thu 23 Jul 2026 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM BST
repeated Tue 28 Jul 2026 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM BST
Price £10
In this session Helen and Georgia take us beyond the rules of poetry, prose or script and encourages you to write ouside the line, linking your words more closely to your own exerience and self-expression. Write free!
The Finale - 10 Hours in the Treehouse - a Charity Event!
The Finale - 10 Hours in the Treehouse - a Charity Event!
Thursday 30th Jul 2026, hourly from 9am to 5pm and 6pm to 8pm
Price - You choose!
As the very last event before the Writing Tree takes it’s August break, we are running a very special Treehouse Session. (These are sessions where we write together, on our own projects, in companionable silence on Zoom.)
The Writing Tree Treehouse will be open to writers for ten sessions. Each hour, on the hour, starting aat 9am, we’ll start with a welcome and a fresh prompt, followed by 50 minutes of writing and a moment to celebrate our accomplishment at the end. You are welcome to come for as many hours as you like, whenever you like throughout the day. (Except for 5pm-6pm when Helen will be taking a break for food!) The final session will start at 7pm.
Our director, Helen, will be there at every single session, to raise money for the Writing Tree’s favourite charity, the Woodland Trust. If you’d like to sponsor her you can donate through her official fundraising page. Yes, she will be writing for ten hours!
Book your Summer School places here.
We hope you find something that tickles your fancy in our July programme and hope to see you in a Zoom Screen soon!