For workshops in zoom, I try to replicate as far as possible the real-life experience of gathering around the table with other writers, so I keep the groups small and require everyone to have video enabled.
Please note: I’m based in the UK so do check the timings work for you if you are booking from other time zones.
Small Celebrations
Saturday 18th April, 2-4.30, Upstairs at Nor Store, Stable Courtyard, Beckenham Place Park
Gratitude practice meets poetry making in this delightful writing workshop designed to boost both creativity and wellbeing. A great little gift for yourself or a friend.
Creative Journalling
Six Wednesday evenings April 29th – June 3rd 2026, 730-9.30 in zoom
Now for a different kind of journalling – let’s get creative!
It isn’t a diary, or a therapeutic journal – it’s a seedbed of fresh ideas, observations, inspirations and creative experiments out of which new writing projects can grow. And because it’s enjoyable, it’s an easy way to find and maintain your writing flow.
Get a gorgeous notebook – I recommend A4, unruled – some colouring pencils/crayons, a few different colour writing pens and a pritt stick, and be prepared to do some homework! (Also, keep all your old magazines).
I enjoyed it so much I have done it twice! Penny Joelson
I thoroughly recommend this course – it’s so much fun playing in your journal! Alex English
Writing the Sweet Soul of Spring
Saturday 9th May 2026, 10.30-12.30 and 4.00-6.00 in zoom
Spring brings the promise and vulnerability of new life. New shoots, baby animals, young children, fresh ideas… the sweet soul of Spring inspires us with optimism and joy and calls up our strong desire for the new in our lives.
Take time out from your busy day-to-day to savour the sweet soul of spring with this playful workshop, which is part of my all-new seasons series that includes ekphrastic writing. Suitable for all levels of writing experience.
Private bookings
I can offer workshops on fiction, non-fiction, memoir and poetry, from sparking ideas to redrafting. I also teach writing workshops that draw on creative dreaming and image-work.
I’ve worked for nationwide organisations including The Society of Authors, Lapidus, Writing Magazine and The Scattered Authors; residential providers including The Arvon Foundation, Endelienta and The Writing Retreat, and a wide variety of small independents such as writing groups, after school clubs and home-educating families. I’m happy to work with groups of all ages and stages of experience.
Contact me without obligation if you would like to discuss your own event
What people say…
A fascinating and inspiring course. I had no knowledge of the Tarot but was definitely Tarot-curious – and now I’m hooked! What a great aid for writing (and for life). Sandra Greaves
I enjoyed Creative Journalling so much I have done it twice! It helped me feel creative outside of the ‘pressure’ to get a novel finished. All the exercises were magical and it was fascinating hearing each person’s response – all so different! Penny Joelson
I thoroughly recommend this course – it’s so much fun playing in your journal! Alex English
This course taught me how to bring my journal to life – to use it as a working document, to record, to cut and paste, to colour, to cut out, to draft and redraft. But most importantly to be bold when facing the blank page. I’ve learned to embrace my weaknesses (as perceived by me) and turn them into joy, to be free just to let stuff flow ~ Carol Cook
I’ve made it to the chapter book prize long list. It was the journaling course that really got me going with the ideas for this one – I shall never stop journaling now! ~ Cheryl Nosworthy
Everything seems to be flowing so much more easily… I feel reconnected, supported by a dream life I’d given no real attention to previously, and just aware of an opening of creative possibilities ~ Jackie Taylor
WritingRetreat@Escape2Cornwall tweet: From a retreat guest: @jennyalexander4 was fantastic. Such a lovely warm presence and so informative. She really got me working and thinking
Jenny’s workshops taught me to stop panicking about my creativity and to start listening properly to my own inner thoughts. I’ve used her workshop ideas again and again to help me cope with creative problems ~Moira Butterfieldhttp://www.moirabutterfield.com/
Jen’s techniques – and her generous sharing of them – have been responsible for many of my own personal breakthroughs as a writer ~ Liz Kessler http://www.lizkessler.co.uk
During Jenny’s collage workshop, which she led with a soulful gentleness, I had a sense that disparate parts of my mind spoke their sorrows and dreams, and discovered they all wanted the same things. Several years on, I am still nourished by the clarity and the freedom that emerged from the sweetness and excitement of that afternoon ~ Moira Munro http://www.moiramunro.com
In one short session, Jenny showed me the possibilities for taking my writing somewhere else, and now I am working on new ideas that expand what I learnt with her ~ Alison Boyle http://www.artificialsilk.org/
What I say…
You can listen to me talking about my approach to teaching workshops in this interview I gave recently for a new online course on Running Writing Groups, hosted by the Professional Writing Academy and written and taught by experienced writers and group facilitators Victoria Field and Anne Taylor.
Jenny Alexander, Free Range Writer 