Join the monthly online membership to develop your writing, get expert advice on tap, and connect with your writing community.

As writers, we don’t work best in lonely garrets, figuring everything out for ourselves, wrestling through anguish on our own: we flourish in community, with help. The Writers’ Greenhouse Community gives you affordable expert help with your writing, inspiration and encouragement, and a community of writer friends.

Expert advice with your writing

Whatever you need advice on – a plot issue, a mental block, a genre dilemma, a question on layout or publishing – you can just ask me. Live on Zoom, or any time in the Community group. I’m here to help.

Inspiration and encouragement

Your membership will inspire and encourage you to create new ideas or improve your existing story / poems, develop joyful stable writing habits, and send your writing out.

A community of writer friends

Get to know other people who love writing through live chats, online posts, and swapping feedback. And if you don’t have a writing group, this is how to find one!

Sign up now or read on for more details on what you get.

What you get in The Writers' Greenhouse Community

Writing Boost: Live monthly Zoom sessions to check in with your writing and reset yourself for the month ahead, get help and advice with any aspect of your writing, and connect with your community.

Community Group: A private Facebook group where you can ask me for advice, build a healthy writing habit, and get to know the others.

Writing Skills: Quick fun activities to develop your writing skills across plot, character, description, style and poems. A new Writing Skill is posted each week.

Trellising: A regular reflection practice to grow and shape joyful stable writing habits.

Sending Writing Out: A regularly updated list of journals and magazines looking for poems and short stories, usually themed and with deadlines, to encourage you to send your writing out.

Choose the sign-up that works for you:

Sign up now or read on for some practical FAQ.

Will this work for me?

• Can I join from anywhere? Yes: everything’s online, so you can be anywhere in the world.
• I’m a complete beginner, though. Brilliant! You’ll be starting your writing journey in amazing company and the weekly Writing Skills will help you create ideas of things to write.
• I’m already published: will this help me? Absolutely. A number of people in the Community are, and we always need other writers around us and to keep developing our skills and habits.
• What experience do you have? I’ve been teaching creative writing since 2011, and have created six full courses and 27 full-day workshops, on various aspects of the writing process, craft, genres, and forms, in both fiction and poetry. I've written 11 novels, a couple dozen short stories, and hundreds of poems, and have published novels, novellas, short stories, and poems, under a mix of pseudonyms and my own name(s). I’m also a qualified teacher with external experience.
• How much time will this take? To make the most of it, 15–30 mins a week and an extra 50 mins a month for the Writing Boost session. Plus your own writing time, which the Writing Boosts and Trellising will help you adjust to suit you.

How do I sign up?

• Enter your name, email address, and payment details below.
• If you're new to my online resources, it'll prompt you to create a username and password.
• You can then sign in immediately to explore your new membership.
• You'll get an automated email from the web-platform (Thrivecart) plus an email from me with the link to bookmark.

If the email form to sign in doesn't appear immediately, wait a few seconds and it'll pop up.