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.
Writing the New Year In
Saturday January 3rd 2026, 10.30-12.30 and 4.00-6.00, and Sunday 4th, 10.30-12.30 in zoom
My creative goal-setting weekend is back! The best way to get what you want is to know what you want, and why you want it, in writing as in life. Knowing exactly what you want won’t mean you definitely get it, but not knowing, or being woolly about it, means you almost definitely won’t.
So start the new year with this fun weekend of workshops designed to help you identify the right writing goals for you in 2026 and start on the path to achieving them.
This workshop is now FULL. Please contact me if you would like to go on the waiting list in case of a cancellation.
Writing Your Life: Uncovering the Treasures of the Past
Six Wednesday evenings, 7th January- 11th February, 7.30-9.30 in zoom
Everybody’s life is amazing, and writing about your own life makes you even more conscious of just how amazing it is.
In this course, we’ll be exploring the kind of awareness, skills and techniques you need in order to find your stories, seeking out the forgotten things for a more rich and textured remembering, and a more exciting writing experience.
This workshop is now FULL. Please contact me if you would like to go on the waiting list in case of a cancellation.
Free-Range Writing for Wellbeing
Saturday 24th January, 2-4.30 upstairs at Nor, Homestead Courtyard, Beckenham Place Park
In life, we are where we are; in writing, we can go anywhere we like. Treat yourself to an afternoon exploring the feel-good possibilities of memoir, fiction, poetry and non-fiction in beautiful Beckenham Place Park.
A tonic for experienced writers and a great opportunity for anyone who hasn’t done much writing or been on writing workshops to give it a go.
This workshop is now FULL. Please contact me if you would like to go on the waiting list in case of a cancellation.
Under the Ice – Writing the Cold Heart of Winter
Saturday 7th February 2026, 10.30-12.30 and 4.00-6.00 in zoom
Winter is the fallow time, in nature and in the cycle of all our endeavours. It’s the time for rest and recovery after the bright bloom of summer and autumn’s mellow fruitfulness, the time for stillness before the first stirrings of new growth in spring.
Take a break from business as usual to savour the deep peace of the season with this winter writing day, which is part of my new series including some ekphrastic writing.
This workshop is now FULL. Please email me to go on the waiting list in case of a cancellation.
Kickstart your Creativity
Saturday 28th February 2026, 2-4.30, upstairs at Nor, Homestead Courtyard, Beckenham Place Park
Do you want to write, but can’t get started? Are you working on something but struggling to keep going? Have you finished one project and don’t know what to write next?
This workshop is designed to help you free things up, explore new ideas, give your inner critic the slip and reconnect with the deep joy of being creative.
It’s suitable for all levels of writing experience, from complete beginners to published authors.
Creative Non-Fiction: Adventures in Memoir
Six Wednesday evenings, February 18th to March 25th 2026, 7.30-9.30 in zoom
There are many different kinds of experiences in a life and many different ways of writing about them besides the traditional memoir.
This course starts with a look at general issues such as writing about real people, telling the truth and being both narrator and protagonist, and goes on to experiment with different forms, from narrative and prose poems through to personal and lyric essays.
As well as creating new work it will help you think more adventurously about the subjects, styles and voices you might bring to your more traditional memoir writing.
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 