Community & Classes
Live classes to write in good company.
Over 40 live workshops and events a month with bestselling authors and publishing professionals, hosted online across every time zone and a writing community that’s open day and night.
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Upcoming events
Bestselling authors and industry insiders join us live for lively, engaging conversations about how they write. All events are recorded for members to catch up on.
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Joe Abercrombie
Joe Abercrombie is infamous for his twisted antiheroes. How do you corrupt a character just enough to make them morally gray and fascinating — but not completely repulsive?
Join Joe Abercrombie and Kate Dylan to explore writing corrupt characters with flair — and how to sustain their complexity across a novel (or a series). Joe is the New York Times bestselling author of The First Law and The Age of Madness trilogies. His most recent novel, The Devils, was optioned for film by James Cameron, and marks the first of a new trilogy published by Macmillan. His books have sold over six million copies.
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Mary Kubica
In safe, tight-knit communities, sudden disappearances throw everything into frightening uncertainty. What do readers find so gripping about these scenarios? And what can these thrillers teach us about stakes, setting, and pacing?
Join Mary Kubica as she reveals her tips for writing propulsive, addictive, and genuinely terrifying small-town thrillers. Mary Kubica is the New York Times bestselling author of The Good Girl, The Other Mrs., and Local Woman Missing; her books have been translated into over thirty languages and have sold over five million copies worldwide.
In conversation with Heather Webb, Mary shares her writing journey from first idea to publication — and why the small-town setting holds so much potential for suspense.
Where writing is serious fun
When you join The Novelry, you get access to all our online writing workshops and events, with bestselling authors and a writing community that’s open day and night. Our workshops are offered live online worldwide, available across all time zones and recorded for you to catch up on if you miss one.
Work hard and fast in a safe, closed community to build your craft skills with bestselling authors. Find out why writers describe The Novelry as “like Hogwarts for writers.”
What membership brings
Writing classes and workshops
Over 40 a month, every day of the working week: masterclasses, craft conversations, story clinics, genre clubs and daily Golden Hour writing sessions. A quick way back into your story, in the company of writers on the same journey.
Live online events
Find out how bestselling authors really write their books, and ask your own questions of the brightest lights in publishing; authors, agents and editors. Tayari Jones, Paula Hawkins, Bonnie Garmus, Kristin Hannah, Tess Gerritsen, Yann Martel and more have all joined us.
The online community
Always open, always on. A secure, ad-free platform built for writers: genre and course groups, beta readers for your pages, your own critique circle, and daily company for the solitary work.
A library of masterclasses
Over 400 recorded classes with bestselling authors, literary agents and publishing professionals to explore in your own time for every aspect of craft delivered with insights and expertise you won't find anywhere else. All the tools for serious writers.
Our regular classes
The regular workshops, clinics and clubs on the weekly program. Times shown in Pacific, Eastern and UK time; every session is recorded.
Craft Clinics
Join other writers in your course group for an informal, welcoming story clinic hosted by a writing coach. With a focus on questions and issues that arise while working through each of our three courses—The Big Idea for members who are outlining, The Big Write for those drafting, and The Big Edit for those editing, as well as a session for those joining us for a second (or a third, or a fourth!) year, aka “The Rollover Club”—you’ll find invaluable support to keep you moving quickly past writer’s block.
6am PT, 9am ET, 2pm GMT, 1am AEDT
5pm PT, 8pm ET, 1am GMT, 12pm AEDT
10am PT, 1pm ET, 6pm GMT, 5am AEDT
The Flow
Ignite your writing with these monthly sessions to reveal the science of Flow. You’ll cover topics including habit building, fueling for Flow, avoiding self-sabotage, distraction elimination, and how to level up your writing by learning how to power down.
12pm PT, 3pm ET, 8pm GMT, 7am AEDT
Let’s Play Writing!
In this popular workshop, the focus is on bringing the joy back to your writing. Expect a fun, craft-based session where you will work in small groups on short writing exercises. This is a great way to get writing and explore your craft, as well as an opportunity to let your hair down, learn new writing tools, have fun with words, and get your creativity flowing!
10am PT, 1pm ET, 6pm GMT, 5am AEDT
Reading Workshop
In this structured yet warm and supportive workshop, you’ll have the chance to share a piece of your writing and ask fellow attendees for thoughtful, constructive insights on whatever element is feeling a little tricky. It’s a generous, good-humored space where participants at different stages gather to exchange ideas, discover solutions, and cheer one another on. Come along to share your work, or simply to be part of the conversation!
10am PT, 1pm ET, 6pm GMT, 5am AEDT
Neurodivergent Community Chat
A safe, supportive space hosted by some of our neurodivergent coaches, all of whom bring practical strategies and lived experience to the discussion. You can expect a calm, illuminating session where challenges can be voiced, strengths celebrated, and where writers can connect with others who really understand their creative minds.
9am PT, 12pm ET, 5pm GMT, 4am AEDT
Golden Hour
Drop into a writing session hosted live in our online community for a golden hour of uninterrupted writing twice a day, every day of the working week. Writers from all around the world will be alongside you, heads down at their written work, in a virtual space that offers the cool, calm hush of the library.
Golden Hour is at 2–3pm BST, 6–7am PT, and 8–9pm BST, 12–1pm PT, daily.
Children’s Fiction Club
Join a bestselling children’s author and writers of middle-grade fiction from each of our courses to share the joys and challenges of composing stories for young readers. Enjoy warm, welcoming sessions in which you’ll have the chance to chat about themes, trends, and the tricky questions that shape the genre, from capturing a child’s viewpoint to balancing humor, heart, and adventure.
Crime & Suspense Club
Join other writers of crime and suspense—from those currently outlining to those who are hard at work re-drafting—to gather for a lively and low-key get-together led by one of our bestselling writing coaches in the genre. You’ll find a friendly space to chat about the themes, tropes, and deliciously tense questions that define these dark and unpredictable stories. With expert guidance on all the tricky issues—building momentum, tightening tension, and pulling off twists, reveals, and endings that land with impact—you’ll leave feeling energized, supported, and ready to hone your own killer plot.
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Real life events
Our writers like to get away from the desk occasionally to celebrate with their writer friends and mingle with authors and literary agents at our parties. Our members meet up in the United States and the United Kingdom with annual parties on the West Coast, East Coast and London. See you there!
— Dr. Brooke Nolan