Gold, green, red and white. How are they festive to you?
Huddersfield Authors’ Circle 90th Anniversary Anthology – Workshop
Our latest anthology is now available! To celebrate, here's a bonus workshop...
Owen’s 2025 Workshop – Dribbles & Drabbles
Write tight with a 100 words or fewer.
Owen’s 2024 Workshop – A Tense Person’s Guide to Person and Tense
Why do we prefer to write in certain tenses and persons while avoiding others?
Vivien’s 2023 Workshop – Setting the Scene
A 'scene’ can establish world building, character personality, theme and more. Here's how...
Chris’s 2023 Workshop – Writing for Children
Writing and rewriting stories for a younger audience can lead to some surprising and pleasing results.
Sara’s 2023 Workshop – Horror
We all have our own idea of a horror story, but what makes one truly effective?
Owen’s 2023 Workshop – Empathy for a Devil
Empathy is an invaluable skill for any writer. If you only ever tell the tales of people like yourself who have similar values and matching motivation, you run the risk of becoming one-note and typecast. While there are some writers out there who specialise in writing roman à clef (plots based on real life events... Continue Reading →
Reading Recommendations for World Book Day 2023
Happy World Book Day 2023! It is vital for writers to be constantly reading other books. After all, these can offer unique insights, inspire new creativity and offer much-needed solace. In case you need some reading material, here are a few book recommendations kindly shared by some of the current members of Huddersfield Authors' Circle…... Continue Reading →
Losing the Plot – Misplacing Works in Progress
By Owen Townend It starts with a gut wrench. There’s usually some muttering of ‘no, no, no’ which gradually raises in volume and pitch. There may even be a touch of computer screen thumping. Your Work in Progress is lost. But how? You forgot to save. You saved over it with something else. You... Continue Reading →