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.
Workshops to refresh your writing life
Online writing workshops are a great way to get back into your story quickly and spend time with those sharing the writing journey. Students who join The Novelry are typically amazed on arrival at the range of classes and online writing workshops available to them every week. More than one member has described The Novelry as “like Hogwarts for writers.”
With regular bestselling and award-winning guest author events, publishing industry and literary agent sessions every month.
Sign up for a course and enjoy more than 40 live workshops every month!
The Writing Masterclass
Led by an expert coach or editor, each session takes an exciting deep dive into a single craft element—think practical, powerful tools that will transform your story in surprising ways. With rich examples, clear guidance, and lively conversation, our masterclasses are packed with a-ha moments and fresh insights. You’ll come away with sharp, effective techniques you can use straightaway, and a renewed sense of excitement for what your writing can achieve.
10am PT, 1pm ET, 6pm GMT, 5am AEDT
Craft Conversations
In this relaxed, conversational format, two of our writing coaches settle in to explore a writing topic from complementary angles, trading insights, examples, curiosities, and confessions. You’ll leave our craft sessions with fresh perspectives, clearer thinking, and a handful of practical ideas to try in your own writing.
8am PT, 11am ET, 4pm GMT, 3am AEDT
3pm PT, 6pm ET, 11pm GMT, 10am AEDT
Live Guest Events
We have a rich history of welcoming phenomenal guests to our live events—from acclaimed authors to experienced industry insiders—and we are thrilled to continue this long-standing tradition. Our guests, whatever their background, join us for lively, engaging discussions that shine a light on how great stories are made. You can expect intimate behind-the-scenes details with candid anecdotes and inspiration straight from the source.
10am PT, 1pm ET, 6pm GMT, 5am AEDT
Editorial Events
Hosted by members of the editorial team, who have all worked at “Big Five” publishing houses and speak regularly to our trusted literary agents, these sessions dive into the nuts and bolts of great writing and savvy submissions. Expect lively question-and-answer slots, revelatory submission sessions, and in-depth clinics to help you discover what really makes a manuscript stand out.
8am PT, 11am ET, 4pm GMT, 3am AEDT
Panel Events
Join a dynamic roundtable of our writing coaches as they gather to explore an aspect of the writing world from multiple angles, with sparkling discussion, fresh ideas, and the kind of unexpected insights that only come from having several brilliant writing minds together in one room. It’s a moment for big thinking, shared wisdom, and creative buzz — all tied to a topic that’s capturing our collective imagination that season.
Quarterly Founder Sessions
Four times a year, we roll out something particularly special...
Come along for a session with our founder, Louise Dean, for an open, lively, anything-goes conversation about the writing life. It’s a chance to ask your burning questions, hear candid insights, and discover what’s really happening in the wider world of books.
Story Clinic
Plot problems? Questions? Motivation lacking? Drop into a Saturday Story Clinic, where you’ll get the chance to ask professional authors for advice and hear how your fellow writers are progressing with their own novels. One of our writing coaches will host the session, steering the conversation through aspects of the writing process and offering fast-acting relief to common creative issues.
9am PT, 12pm ET, 5pm GMT, 4am AEDT
12am PT, 3am ET, 8am GMT, 7pm AEDT
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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