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Celebrate our 10-year anniversary at our first-ever online festival.

Join us September 5–9, for sessions and workshops on creativity for writers, resilience and wellbeing, writing for audio, storytelling for novelists, memoir, crime, romance and short story writing, and editing and pitching – and much, much more!

Set over five days, the Set the World to Write Festival has a broad and varied programme to appeal to all writers whatever medium you write in. 

We’ve curated a week of excellent speakers we know you’ll enjoy.

Thank you for a fantastic festival!

Keep you eyes peeled for more festival news in 2023…

Got a question? Email us at [email protected] or send us a message using the form below.




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    What’s on?

    Workshops, Talks and Q&As

    With spectacular sessions from…

    Christina Bunce
    Keynote Speaker

     

    Susannah Marriot
    KeyNote Speaker
    John Yorke
    Narrative & screenwriting Expert

     

    Kate McBarron
    Writing for wellbeing Practitioner

     

    Awais Khan
    award-winning Author

     

    Karen Sullivan
    Publisher & Founder of orenda books

     

    Graham Bartlett
    Graham Bartlett
    Police Advisor & CRIME Author

     

    David Headley
    Renowned Agent & Bookseller

     

    Heidi Rice
    Heidi Rice
    USA Today Bestselling Author

     

    Dimitris Akrivos
    JOurnalist & Criminologist
    Lucy Cripps
    Lucy Cripps
    Grammar & Copywriting expert

     

    Francesco Dimitri
    Francesco Dimitri
    Prize-winning author

     

    Susmita Bhattacharya
    Susmita Bhattacharya
    award-winning Short Fiction Author

     

    Helen Corner-Bryant
    Founder of Cornerstones literary consultancy

     

    Clare Christian
    Founder of Red door Publishing house
    Penny Batchelor
    Author & co-founder of The ADcI Literary Prize

     

    Faye Brann
    Faye Brann
    Prize-winning authOR

     

    Emma Millions
    Emma Millions
    Business Writing Expert
    Jessica Dromgoole
    Audio Drama Producer & Director

     

    Andrew Wilson
    Andrew Wilson
    Award-Winning biographer & NOvelist

     

    Paul Dodgson
    Paul Dodgson
    Life writer & Radio producer
    Lee Weatherly
    Lee Weatherly
    Bestselling Young Adult Author