Upcoming Masterclasses

One-Day Writing Masterclass in London

One-day intensive Writing Masterclass in London. Led by Alexandra Pringle, former editor-in-chief of Bloomsbury publishing, with bestselling historian and screenwriter Alex von Tunzelmann, and editor and consultant Faiza S Khan.

5 October 2024

Maggie O'Farrell

One of Britain’s most acclaimed and popular contemporary authors, Maggie O'Farrell is the winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2021 for her bestselling historical novel Hamnet.

15 – 20 November 2024

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Kamila Shamsie

Kamila Shamsie is the internationally-renowned author of eight novels. Her novel Home Fire won the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2018.

24 – 29 November 2024

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Esther Freud

Esther Freud is the internationally bestselling author of Hideous Kinky and will publish her tenth novel in 2025.

23 – 28 February 2025

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Alan Hollinghurst

Alan Hollinghurst is the author of seven novels, and won the Booker Prize 2004 for The Line of Beauty.

2 – 7 March 2025

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Colum McCann

Colum McCann is the author of a dozen books. His awards including The National Book Award, the Dublin Literary Prize and an Oscar nomination

16 – 21 November 2025

Hisham Matar

Hisham Matar won a Pulitzer Prize for his memoir The Return. His novel In the Country of Men was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.

23 – 28 November 2025

Previous Masterclasses

Monica Ali

March 2024

Monica Ali is the internationally bestselling author of five books, including Brick Lane and Love Marriage.

Clover Stroud

February- March 2024

Clover Stroud is the author of three acclaimed Sunday Times bestselling memoirs: The Wild Other, My Wild and Sleepless Nights and The Red of My Blood.