Six-week writing course in Sherborne
Mon 20 Oct
|Cafe D'Urberville
Join best-selling novelist Joanna Quinn for a writing course in Sherborne, Dorset. Meeting once a week for six weeks, this is a great way to improve your writing through inspiring exercises and useful discussions.
Time & Location
20 Oct 2025, 18:00 – 20:00
Cafe D'Urberville, 90 Cheap St, Sherborne DT9 3BJ, UK
About the event
Perhaps you’ve been working for months on a writing project, and you’d like the chance to see it with fresh eyes. Or maybe you've been meaning to put pen to paper for an age and now seems like a good time. Why not join bestselling novelist Joanna Quinn for a six-week creative writing course in Sherborne, Dorset?
We’ll be meeting one evening a week (October 6th, 14th, 20th, 27th, Nov 3rd, 10th)
from 6pm -8pm, to do writing exercises to improve our skills, alongside sharing our work and discussing it with others in a supportive environment. The course aims to provide inspiration, encouragement, technical guidance and feedback, as well as being an opportunity to develop a regular writing practice as we move into the winter months.
We will meet in the lovely Cafe D'Urberville in the heart of historic Sherborne for a two-hour session, with a break half way through for tea/ coffee/ a nice glass of wine. It doesn’t matter if you are writing prose, poetry, memoir - or if you aren’t sure yet what you want to write. If you are keen to become a better creative writer, we would love to have you join us. Places are limited (mainly to make sure the group stays a reasonable size) and there is a discount if you pay for the full six weeks in advance. Any questions, please drop Joanna a line at hello@hopeandanchorwriting.com
About Joanna:
Joanna Quinn was born in London and grew up in Dorset, where her first novel The Whalebone Theatre is set.
The Whalebone Theatre was published in 2022 and was an instant bestseller in the UK and the US. The novel was a 'Read With Jenna' pick and was chosen by HM Queen Camilla for her book club The Reading Room. It was shortlisted for Best Debut Fiction at the British Book Awards, The Authors' Club Best First Novel, The Society of Authors McKitterick Prize and The Winston Graham Prize for Historical Fiction. It was a Book of the Year in The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Times. It has been sold into 14 territories worldwide.
Joanna has a background in journalism and communications. She is an occasional book reviewer for The Guardian and also teaches creative writing, running classes and workshops both at universities and on writing retreats. She lives in Dorset.