Courses and Events 2025
Sharon Duggal and me at Arvon Lumb Bank, where we were co-teaching a course in November 2022 [Photo by Claire McNamee]
Me running a 'Writing Sizzling Sex Scenes' workshop at the 2020 Surrey New Writers Festival (a week before the first lockdown).
On a panel with Courttia Newland and Alison Rumfitt, at the 2019 Surrey New Writers Festival
4 April 2025 Managing Pace
Jubilee Library, Brighton, for the Creative Writing Programme
Pace is a fundamental element of writing. When a book's well-paced, you’re pulled into the story and time passes quickly. But pace is elusive. What actually is it, and how can you improve it in your own story?
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9 May 2025 Pepping things up with Pace and Dialogue
Arvon At Home (Online)
Designed for writers with a work-in-progress, this craft-based workshop will give you ideas and techniques for using pace and dialogue more effectively in your writing.
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9 October 2025 Reading
Needlewriters, Lewes
Reading from my most recent novel alongside two other writers at this quarterly salon.
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