Editor Jennifer Richards reflects on writing a play where the subject matter’s close to you heart, looking at how to look after yourself when delving into personal experience. The ‘write what you know’ cliché is often tossed around in articles about learning to be a writer, but sometimes creating a play about a personal experience you …
The LPW Online Book Club is just one of the things you can access if you become a member! Not a member yet? Well, if you want a jump start for your writing for the price of a cup of coffee, what are you waiting for? Sign up here today! (Want more reasons to join and a bit …
Editor Jennifer Richards is recapping our practical workshop with Kimberley Andrews at London Writers’ Week! Want to learn how to get your creative inspiration juices flowing? Read on… Getting excited about a story, and feeling like you just have to tell it, is a brilliant sensation. Feeling ideas bubbling up inside you, ready to spill onto …
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Editor Jennifer Richards is recapping our practical workshop with Freddie Machin at London Writers’ Week! Want to learn how to write for two different media? Read on… “Nobody knows anything.” Okay, so your workshop leader saying this is probably not how you want an event at London Writer’s Week to start, but it makes a …
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When the sun comes out and the nights get longer, it’s easy for your writing to take a backseat – after all, who wants to be cooped up behind their laptop when they could be out enjoying some rare British sunshine? So, to help you keep up the writing momentum, we’ll be bringing you a …
Summer Sessions: Online Workshops from LPB this August! Read More »
Can you believe it has been a whole year since we launched our members website? Here co-founder, Kimberley Andrews, reflects on the past year, talks about the overwhelming support received from members, and discusses what’s next for LPB… Why did we launch our membership scheme? In the summer of 2017, A.C Smith and I knew …
The lack of working class voices in UK theatre at the moment finally seems to be coming to the forefront of discussion, with theatres such as the Royal Court attempting to address the issue. In this guest post, playwright Joanne Sherryden reflects on being a working class writer, talks about why we need to …
Working class voices: vibrancy, determination and finding inspiration in the ordinary Read More »
The LPW Online Book Club is just one of the things you can access if you become a member! Not a member yet? Well, if you want a jump start for your writing for the price of a cup of coffee, what are you waiting for? Sign up here today! (Want more reasons to join and a bit …
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For National Writing Day, we chatted to some brilliant playwrights and posed the trickiest question of them all: “Why Do You Write?” Here’s what they had to say… Nicole Acquah Nicole is a performer-writer currently based in Essex who wrote For a Black Girl that was on at this year’s VAULT Festival, and her new …
A year on from her first short play being staged, Editor Jennifer Richards reflects on what she’d go back and tell herself (when she gets her hands on a time machine…) I never studied playwriting. In fact, I’m completely degreeless! I’ve learn through reading plays, Google and, whenever I’m lucky enough to chat to anyone …
Five things I wish I’d been told before I started writing Read More »
