The Writing Space
creating space for writers and writing
offers a variety of workshops, courses, coaching and tailored events—all centred around expressive, reflective and creative writing.
Whether you want to focus on writing for wellbeing or the craft of writing, we have something to suit your needs.
The Writing Space welcomes people and groups
from a variety of backgrounds
We work with
Businesses
Community groups
Not-for-profit organisations
Higher education
Schools
Health and social care
Women’s groups
Cancer survivors
Aspiring writers
We enjoy the challenge of creating new workshops and courses to match the specific needs of our clients. Contact us to find out more or chat to us about bespoke events for your organisation.
You’re encouraged to get creative, challenge you own limits and discover what’s possible.
Hi, I’m Judi
My work includes poetry, short stories, life-writing, and visual art. I write to make sense of lived experience and the challenges of being human. Often (but not exclusively) my work is about women’s lives – collages of memory and imagination.
During my first career as a designer, I illustrated several publications for The Women’s Design Service including At Women’s Convenience – a book about women’s public toilets – and the award-winning Thinking of Small Children – Access, Provision & Play.
I am currently working on a multi-genre, experimental project incorporating poetry, memoir, collage and photography – exploring illness and the body, family secrets and inter-generational patterns. My work has been highly commended in competitions and published in anthologies.
I have co-edited two anthologies of poetry and short stories with Dr Amina Alyal – Words from a Distance and Tasseomancy with Hugbot and Fukbot for the Tea Set.
My work is published in
Words from a Distance
The Spaces Between Us
The End is Where We Start
Comfort Zone – Flight of the Dragonfly
Tasseomancy with Hugbot and Fukbot
Our next workshop
Writing in the Wardrobe
We’re looking forward to our next Writing in the Wardrobe course.
Wardrobes are full of memories of people, places and events – clothes you love, and clothes you no longer wear but can’t let go of. What meaning do clothes hold for you? What do your clothes say about you?
Join The Writing Space for a course of 3 weekly workshops exploring clothes, real and imagined.
Our clothes can say so much about us. Step into the magical world of wardrobes and come and write about clothes – your own and other people’s, real and imagined.
