BOOK YOUR PLACE BY CLICKING HERE Welcome to a new informal, online series from thi wurd. These sporadic mini-events will take place throughout 2026 and be brief – no more than an hour. They’ll generate new writing, new thoughts, new processes. They’ll bring together wurd regulars with new writers. As ever, they’re open to anyone, […]
Changes Our ‘Writing Fiction’ classes begin again in January 2026. Now in their 25th consecutive year, we are making changes to the style and structure so that writers get even better feedback on their work. Now we’ll have more room for debate and discussion of literary techniques and the processes of writing. And we’ll write […]
THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT To go on the waiting list should tickets become available, email: editor@thiwurd.com “I would have followed you in the door but I didn’t have a ticket stub” (‘Up To Me’ Bob Dylan) On Saturday 8th March 2025, at Stereo in Glasgow, thi wurd will present a literary & musical tribute […]
Tues 7-9.30pm GMT (8 weeks) £130. Starts 21 Jan. Buy class HERE. Wed 7.9.30pm GMT (8 weeks) £130. Starts 22 Jan. Buy Class HERE. Sun 6-8.30pm GMT (8 weeks) £130. Starts 26 Jan. Buy class HERE. I quickly wrote down a list of some of the reasons why a fiction writer might want to take […]
A Postcard Childhood “Why write in your second language?” After only a couple of years of fiction writing in English, I’ve faced this question enough times that I thought I should give it an answer, for myself and for others. I grew up in Italy, in the Tuscan countryside. When I was little, the oil […]