Events

About London Writers' Salon

Each Sunday we publish a newsletter sharing 10 paid writing gigs and contests – plus upcoming events and workshops at London Writers' Salon.

10 Paid Writing Jobs Every Sunday

Join us for a focused, 1-hour goal setting workshop to help you nail your writing projects over next 30 days and start this month strong.

Make March Your Month of Writing: A Goal Setting Workshop for Writers

Writers' Hour: 8am UK Edition

Every week day for the last year, we've held our flagship 

To celebrate 1 year of Writers' Hours, we're hosting 24 Writers' Hours across 24 hours.

We will write across time zones from London to Tokyo, from Melbourne to Montana, from your home to ours.

Bring your friends, bring your pets, bring a hot drink, bring fizz and whatever else you need.

Parul, Matt & the London Writers' Salon Community

Around the World in 24 Writers' Hours: A 24-Hour Writing Sprint

Each week day for the last 52 weeks, we've held our flagship 

To celebrate 1 year of Writers' Hours, we're hosting 24 Writers' Hours across 24 hours. Together we'll write across time zones from London to Tokyo, from Melbourne to Montana, from your home to ours. You’re invited to join us for any or all of them no matter where you’re based. 

​We’re hosting 24 ‘Writers’ Hour’ writing sessions, chasing 8ams across 24 timezones around the world.

​​We’ll start on Saturday 27th March at 8-9am in Wellington, New Zealand (

Friday 7pm UK, Friday 3pm ET, etc. Not sure

what time that is for you? Check your local time 

​​We’ll finish on Saturday 27th March at 8-9am in Honolulu, Hawaii.

​​You’re welcome to join one, several, or all 24 hours if you dare…

​​We’ll use the same zoom link for all 24 hours. Register to get access.

​​Each Writers’ Hour will have a different theme, chosen by the host of the hour.

​​You’re welcome to steer your writing according to the theme – or simply use the hour to write whatever you like! Totally up to you.

​​Here are the cities, hosts and themes for each hour:

Make April Your Month of Writing: A Goal Setting Workshop for Writers

Join us for a focused, 1-hour goal setting workshop to help you nail your writing projects over next 28 days and start this month strong.

Make May Your Month of Writing: A Goal Setting Workshop for Writers

🎉 LWS Webby Nominee Party

Join us for a focused, 1-hour goal setting workshop to help you nail your writing projects over next 30 days and start the month strong.

Make JUNE Your Month of Writing: A Goal Setting Workshop for Writers

Make JULY Your Month of Writing: A Goal Setting Workshop for Writers

Make AUGUST Your Month of Writing: A Goal Setting Workshop for Writers

Make SEPTEMBER Your Month of Writing: A Goal Setting Workshop for Writers

This event has ended. Register to watch the replay and get the workbook and 100 Days tracker. 

Somewhere between January 1 and today, life happened. 

Goals are golden. We make New Years resolutions with the best intentions. But for those of us with especially harsh inner critics, the giant gulf between our goal setting on January 1st and today's reality can leave us feeling deflated and frustrated.

But perhaps we can view the next 100 days with a different lens. This week, we’re born anew.

We still have 100 days to focus on our creative projects.

Could you launch a new creative project? 

Could you start a poetry habit, learn how to draw, pick up journaling?

What might happen if you spent 30 minutes of every single day in the pursuit of something new, different, or challenging?

What if you took 100 of the tiniest steps in the direction of a creative dream?

Let's spend the next 100 days with intention. Let's be kind to ourselves by focusing on what matters. 

Join us for a free, 100 Days of Writing workshop*.

to help you track your progress in final days of 2021!

What will you do with the final days of 2021?

100 Days of Writing: Let's Finish 2021 Strong

 challenge, this is a chance to reflect, readjust, and recommit to your 100 Days goal.

Make OCTOBER Your Month of Writing: A Goal Setting Workshop for Writers

Make NOVEMBER Your Month of Writing: A Goal Setting Workshop for Writers

Make DECEMBER Your Month of Writing: A Goal Setting Workshop for Writers

Are you considering writing for TV or theatre but not sure how to start? Or are you writing but unsure of your next steps? Or maybe you're feeling stuck or frustrated and need some advice.

Join us for an hour Q&A with Sarah Rutherford, a Scottish-born, London-based playwright and screenwriter. Bring your burning questions, and Sarah will answer them!

This Q&A will be take place immediately following our ET 

An hour before we interview Sarah, we'll be writing in silence in that same Zoom Room 👆🏼, you're welcome to join us at 1pm GMT/ 8am ET). The Q&A will kick off at 2pm GMT /  9am ET)

 (a daily writing sprint), interviews and masterclasses. 

Sarah is an actor-turned-writer whose most recent play 

 had a 6-week run at Trafalgar Studios. She was the inaugural Writer in Residence of Park Theatre, where her play 

 was nominated Best Off-West End Production (WhatsOnStage Awards). More recently she has moved into TV and is under commission to the BBC, World Productions and RED Production Company. Her plays are published by Methuen.

“Surprising, stimulating and touching … unusual and gripping … a unique and resonant drama” (

“Sensitively written with impressively nimble dialogue” (

“Laugh-out-loud funny … Piercing, spellbinding, poignant, powerful” (

“A cracking new play … A splendidly funny and often downright raucous comedy – a kind of 

 for the metropolitan, multicultural 21st century. …  Dark and often hilarious  … A provocative and entertaining evening”   (

)“A sparky, modern, well-acted, highly watchable show … Rutherford is a fresh voice”   (Daily Mail)“Fiercely funny stuff”   (Time Out)

Q&A: Starting out in TV & Theatre w/ Sarah Rutherford

Join us for a focused, 1-hour goal setting workshop to help you nail your writing projects in February and start the month strong.

Make FEBRUARY Your Month of Writing: A Goal Setting Workshop for Writers

Join us for a focused, 1-hour goal setting workshop to help you nail your writing projects in March and start the month strong.

Make MARCH Your Month of Writing: A Goal Setting Workshop for Writers

Each week day for the last 2 years, we've held our flagship 

To celebrate our 2nd year of Writers' Hours, we're hosting 24 Writers' Hours across 24 hours. Together we'll write across time zones from London to Tokyo, from Melbourne to Montana, from your home to ours. You’re invited to join us for any or all of them no matter where you’re based.

​​We’ll start on Saturday 25th March at 8-9am in Wellington, New Zealand (Friday 7pm UK, Friday 3pm ET, etc.)

​​We’ll finish on Saturday 25th March at 8-9am in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Join us for a focused, 1-hour goal setting workshop to help you nail your writing projects in April and start the month strong.

Make APRIL Your Month of Writing: A Goal Setting Workshop for Writers

What is the role of marketing at a book publisher?

What does a good marketing plan look like?

How can an author work with their publisher to launch their book?

Join us for a Q&A with Jen Porter, Head of Marketing at Embla Books, about how the digital-first publisher markets their bestselling books. 

We've prepared some questions, and then will turn it over to you – so bring your burning questions about all things book marketing!

An hour before we interview Jen, we'll be writing in silence in that same Zoom Room 👆🏼, you're welcome to join us at 1pm GMT/ 8am ET). The Q&A will kick off at 2pm BST /  9am ET).

Originally from the US, Jen moved to the UK in 2009 to do an MA in Publishing at Oxford Brookes University. After starting in sales, she moved into marketing and PR and eventually to HQ at HarperCollins where she was Marketing Campaigns Manager for authors like B.A. Paris, Lisa Hall and Adele Parks. In 2018 she moved to Penguin Michael Joseph as Senior Marketing Manager working across established authors such as Liane Moriarty and Lesley Pearse as well as debuts like 

Q&A: Tips on Marketing Your Book w/ Jen Porter, Head of Marketing at Embla Books

Join us for a focused, 1-hour goal setting workshop to help you nail your writing projects in May and start the month strong.

Make MAY Your Month of Writing: A Goal Setting Workshop for Writers

Join us for a Q&A with author and writing mentor Beth Kempton about how to land a book deal for your non-fiction book. 

We've prepared some questions, and then will turn it over to you – so bring your burning questions.

An hour before we interview Beth, we'll be writing in silence in that same Zoom Room 👆🏼, you're welcome to join us at 1pm BST/ 8am ET). The Q&A will kick off at 2pm BST /  9am ET).

Beth Kempton is a Japanologist and a bestselling self-help author and writer mentor. Her book 

Japanese wisdom for a perfectly imperfect life

 has been translated into 25 languages and selected as a recommended read by TIME Magazine, British Vogue, and Psychologies. She's also the founder of 

Q&A: How to Land a Non-Fiction Book Deal w/ Beth Kempton

To help us kick off Mental Health Awareness week at LWS, we're joined by Dr. Sarb Johal, leading New Zealand psychologist and author of 

Finding Calm: Managing fear and anxiety in an uncertain world.

Join this Q&A to learn practical skills from Dr. Johal's book that can help anyone come to terms with feelings of anxiety and learn to thrive.

An hour before we interview Sarb, we'll be writing in silence in that same Zoom Room 👆🏼, you're welcome to join us at 1pm BST/ 8am ET). The Q&A will kick off at 2pm BST /  9am ET).

 is a writer, author, speaker and broadcaster with an insatiable curiosity about this human experience. He's the author of the bestselling 

Finding Calm: Managing Fear and Anxiety in an Uncertain World

Steady: Keeping Calm in a World Gone Viral’

Dr Johal has over 30 year’s experience helping people and organisations find their way through challenging times with greater equanimity, resilience and connection. He advised the UK and New Zealand governments and the World Health Organisation through some of the major national and international crises of the last decades. He is a sought after keynote speaker and a regular contributor to Psychology Today, The Guardian, RNZ National and other national and international media outlets.

He publishes a podcast  via his Substack newsletter 

His latest project is the 30,000 Days project. We only have 30,000 days to live, and we need to spend them wisely.

🧠 Q&A: Finding Calm & Managing Your Mental Health w/ Dr. Sarb Johal 

If you're hosting or considering hosting a podcast join us for a Q&A with our very own trailblazing podcast host and founder of WeAreLATech, Espree Devora (listen to Espree's podcast 

We'll be asking her for top tips around marketing a podcast including:

We'll also open the floor to you all for your burning questions!

This Q&A will be take place immediately following our PT 

An hour before we interview Espree, we'll be writing in silence in that same Zoom Room 👆🏼, you're welcome to join us at 4pm BST  11am ET  8am PT). The Q&A will kick off at 6pm BST / 12pm ET 

Espree Devora recently featured in INC Magazine as one of the top 30 women in tech to follow and known as “the Girl who Gets it Done” uses technology and digital content to thoughtfully connect people in the tech industry and move them from online connections to meaningful offline relationships. Her company 

 creates high quality digital content including podcasts, technology and curated offline experiences focused on the Los Angeles tech and global women in tech ecosystems. These resources help community accelerate in business via authentically connecting.

🎧 Q&A: How to Publish & Market Your Podcast w/ Espree Devora

Join us for a focused, 1-hour goal setting workshop to help you nail your writing projects in June and start the month strong.

With so many blogs and newsletters out there, how can you make yours stand out?

Microsoft is launching a new platform for independent writers* that just might help.

. It's in beta. And they're looking for new writers to join their platform.

Naturally, we wanted to learn more and explore how it can benefit LWS writers.

We've invited the team building Microsoft Start to give our community an early look at the platform, share the opportunity for writers, and explain how to easily get set up on the platform.

Join us for an under-the-hood look at Microsoft Start with the internal upstart team building it. 

*  Currently only available to non-fiction writers based in the US or Germany. Launching in UK later this year. 

An hour before this session, at 8am PT (11am ET), we'll be writing in silence in the same Zoom room. You're welcome to join us. The Q&A will kick off immediately following the writing session, at 9am PT (12pm ET).

With Microsoft Start, writers have the opportunity to:

 (a daily writing sprint), interviews and masterclasses.

How to Grow Your Readership & Monetize Your Blog w/ Microsoft Start

How can we use Scrivener to organise our writing? What are the key tools in this popular writing software? 

Join our exclusive event with Oliver Evensen, from the Scrivener support team. He’ll be sharing his top tips for writing using Scrivener and will take your burning questions, no matter how big or small. 

All Silver & Above LWS Members now get 20%-off Scrivener.

 is a writing mentor and helps struggling writers finish their novels. Oliver is a Scrivener Outreach Specialist and has been a Scrivener user for over 10 years.

An Introduction to Scrivener Writing Software w/ Oliver Evensen, Literature & Latte

So you’re launching a book in 6-12 months time, what should your marketing plan be? 

What are some essential steps needed to create an author platform?

Join us as we chat to expert marketer, Katie Morwenna (Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Hachette) about how overwhelmed authors can create effective and manageable marketing plans. 

You’ll have a chance to ask Katie your questions around building your author platform and how you can create a marketing strategy for your book.

This Q&A will take place immediately following our ET 

An hour before the Q&A, we'll be writing in silence in that same Zoom Room 👆🏼, you're welcome to join us at 1pm BST/ 8am ET). The Q&A will kick off at 2pm BST /  9am ET).

 is an award-winning marketer, with over 14 years of experience within the publishing industry. She helps authors discover how to grow their platforms in a way that feels manageable, and still gets books in front of your ideal readers. 

Q&A: Plan your Book Marketing Strategy w/ Book Marketer Katie Morwenna

Join us for a focused, 1-hour goal setting workshop to help you nail your writing projects in July and start the month strong.

How can we use Scrivener to organise our writing? 

, Oliver Evensen took us through the Editorial Tool, Meta Tags and the Scrivening function. 

In Part 2, Oliver will walk us through how we can use the 

 functionality to organise and plan your writing. 

Oliver will also take all your broader questions about Scrivener, no matter how big or small. 

Scrivener Q&A Part 2 w/ Oliver Evensen, Literature & Latte

How can we make writing our second or third career? 

Jan Woolf trained as a painter and taught art and special needs in London schools for many years. She started writing in her 50s and today she has established herself as a playwright and author.  

Join us for our Q&A with Jan where we’ll be talking to her about how she got started, her writing practice today and her success as a playwright.

Held immediately following our Writers’ Hour ET session, in the same room. 

**This interview will be recorded and sent to anyone who registers afterwards.**

Jan has read much of her own work, often with actors, most recently at the Freud Museum and the ICA, and held the first Harold Pinter Writers’ residency at the Hackney Empire, where her play Porn Crackers was directed by Ruth Boswell. She is a critic, reviewer and editor, and has published various pieces of journalism, drawn from a life of political activism and teaching. Jan edited many books for the Muswell Press, and ran ‘Off the Shelf’ at Blacks club Soho from 2011 to 2014 – a writer’s development project for the Writers Guild of Great Britain, of which she is an active member. She is the author of a book of short stories  ‘Fugues on a Funny Bone’, a novella ‘Untitled,’ many reviews and articles, and four performed plays.

Q&A: Starting Your Writing Career Later in Life w/ Playwright Jan Woolf

Join us for a focused, 1-hour goal setting workshop to help you nail your writing projects in August and start the month strong.

Tyler Denk, one of the masterminds behind the wildly popular Morning Brew newsletter, has taken the skills and systems he developed to create his own platform for newsletter writers, 

Join us for a Q&A with Tyler to learn how Beehiiv differs from Substack and other email providers, pro tips on audience engagement, and how writers can use Beehiiv to grow their readership virally.

 as the second employee in a role that spanned engineering, product, and growth—responsible for building the renowned referral program and bespoke tech ecosystem that facilitated the company to scale to a successful $75m exit in 2020.

After a stint at Google as a Product Lead at YouTube Music, he left to cofound 

—a newsletter platform to fuel creators' ability to create, monetize, and grow their audience.

On the side, he enjoys building cool projects, most recently Big Desk Energy (popular Spotify playlist + web destination). 

Q&A: Secrets Behind High Growth Newsletters w/ Tyler Denk, founder of Beehiiv

In Part 1 of our Scrivener series, Oliver took us through the Editorial Tool, Meta Tags and the Scrivenings function. In Part 2 Oliver showed us how to use the Corkboard functionality to organise and plan your writing. 

Join us for Part 3, where Oliver will dive into The Inspector function and answer your burning questions about Scrivener.

Q&A: Intro to Scrivener Writing Software (Part 3) w/ Oliver Evensen, Literature & Latte

So you've published a book or are about to publish a book. Now it's time to think about the next step - getting the book into the hands of your readers. 

What does a good publicity plan look like? What does a 'good' author brand look like?

If anyone knows, it's publicist Lucy Werner who helps startups, entrepreneurs and authors understand the fundamental (and DIY) steps of PR.

Join us for our Q&A with Lucy to explore what it means to create your own PR plan, grow your visibility and grow your audience.

Lucy ‘The Wern’ Werner is a PR expert, founder, author and teacher. Lucy set up her business in 2015 because she was completely disillusioned by how traditional agencies weren’t servicing the independents in the way they needed. 

 is a PR & design shop for startups, entrepreneurs and independent brands. The business is split across products, events, courses, coaching and an affordable agency. In the last six years, Lucy has worked with hundreds of entrepreneurs including 

. She uses her own profile to demonstrate how you can do your own publicity without spending a fortune on a big London agency. 

Lucy loves helping people learn the DIY steps of PR, regularly hosting my own workshops and for other platforms such as UAL Creative Accelerator, Cass Business School, UCL and Courier magazine as well as co-working spaces. 

Lucy is also a guest lecturer for modern business school Jolt, General Assembly and a regular on the speaker circuit across the capital.

Q&A: How to Publicise Your Book & Build Your Brand w/ PR Expert Lucy Werner

Join us for a focused, 1-hour goal setting workshop to help you nail your writing projects in September and start the month strong.

The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

, Julia Cameron revolutionized our collective relationship to creativity. 

 has sold over 5 million copies and inspired artists worldwide. The author of more than forty books, Cameron has also created a vast body of work as a poet, songwriter, filmmaker, and playwright.

Join us for a conversation with Julia Cameron about her life, her work, and the practical tools we can use to tap into our creativity and invite art into everyday life.

 is the author of forty books, including her bestselling works on the creative process: 

. Her work has been translated into more than forty languages. Also a novelist, playwright, songwriter, and poet, she has multiple credits in theatre, film, and television.

Parul Bavishi and Matt Trinetti are the co-founders of the London Writers' Salon and the creators of the webby-nominated 

 where they write with hundreds of writers every week day. The Salon has partnered with organisations like The London Book Fair, Soho House, Allbright and Women's Prize for Fiction to host interviews and workshops for writers. They are the hosts of the 

In addition to running LWS she helps thriller, YA and non-fiction writers level up their craft and get published. She writes and edits for the 

. She has worked as an editor and literary scout at Random House, Quercus & Eccles Fisher. She analyses TV hit shows (Killing Eve, Ozark, Game of Thrones) on the 

 is a writer, publisher, TEDx speaker, and facilitator. In addition to running LWS, Matt designs programs to help unfulfilled professionals pursue creative work, start businesses, and reinvent their careers. Matt's work has appeared in Quartz, Observer, Creative Mornings, and on his blog 

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By becoming an LWS Member, you'll get free access to interviews like this. Plus you'll join our private LWS Slack group and get expert support and accountability to enhance your craft and publish your best work.

🎙 Pursuing The Artist's Way: A Conversation w/ Author Julia Cameron

Join us for a chat with author and podcaster Daisy Buchanan about how Daisy got through the toughest mental periods of her life by cultivating a reading habit, and how reading can stimulate our creative imagination and inspire our writing.

Daisy Buchanan is an award-winning journalist, author, podcaster and broadcaster. She has written for every major newspaper and magazine in the UK, from the Guardian to Grazia. She is a TEDx speaker, and she hosts the chart-topping podcast 

, where she interviews legendary writers from all over the world about how their reading habits shape their work. Her other books include the non-fiction titles 

Insatiable: A Love Story For Greedy Girls.

Daisy has written a short book with The Pound Project called 

The book is available exclusively to preorder from the Pound Project until 27 September.

It's about mental health and burnout, and how Daisy got through the toughest mental periods of her life by cultivating a reading habit. She’ll also be looking at the way reading stimulates our creative imagination, and how it inspires writing - not just her own, but the work of every single author she has interviewed for her podcast You're Booked.

How to Read Like a Writer (& Read Your Way Out of Burnout) w/ Daisy Buchanan

Join us for a free, 100 Days of Writing workshop.

to help you track your progress in the final days of 2022!

What will you do with the final days of 2022?

100 Days of Writing: Let's Finish 2022 Strong

How might collaborative writing help improve your writing and accelerate your career and impact? 