Step up to the Studio

Do you dream of joining a friendly online community where you can take your writing to the next level through live workshops, collegial conversations, and supportive craft-focused feedback? If so, you’ll love the Live Writing Studio! Join writers from around the world for up to 60 Live Writing Studio sessions per year with international writing expert Dr. Helen Sword and her trained facilitators.

What is the Live Writing Studio?

The Live Writing Studio is the beating heart of the WriteSPACE — a welcoming virtual space where writers gather in real time to write, talk, and develop their wordcraft through collegial conversations and personal coaching. At each 2-hour Studio session, you’ll be invited to:

  • Reach across time and space to connect with other writers from around the world.

  • Stretch your creative muscles with a playful 10-minute writing warmup.

  • Push your current writing project forward with a focused 25-minute writing sprint (pomodoro).

  • Meet with fellow writers for a writing WINDOW (Writing In Dialogue with Other Writers) to exchange friendly, low-stakes, formative feedback on bite-sized chunks of your work-in-progress, with spotlight coaching by Helen.

Who can attend the Studio?

There are several ways to access the Live Writing Studio:

  1. BEST OFFER: Join the WriteSPACE Studio as a monthly ($45) or annual ($395) member and get UNLIMITED ACCESS to up to 60 Live Writing Studio sessions per year as part of your premium membership plan, along with all the other benefits of regular WriteSPACE membership.

  2. Enroll in any Writing Catalyst course and get 6 WEEKS OF FREE ACCESS to the concurrent Studio Sequence.

  3. Purchase a 6-week Studio Sequence pass ($120) or attend a single Studio session ($20) for a short-term productivity boost.

  4. Join the WriteSPACE as a regular monthly or annual member and get two free Studio passes per year.

We’d love to see you there!

When do the Studio sessions meet?

We run five themed Studio Sequences per year, with session times calibrated to suit writers in any time zone. Each Studio Sequence consists of two 2-hour sessions per week over a 6-week period, for a total of 60 sessions per year:

  • Productivity Sequence: Nov 5 - Dec 12, 2024

  • Pleasure Sequence: Feb 4 - Mar 13, 2025

  • Wordcraft Sequence: Apr 1 - May 1, 2025

  • Structure Sequence: May 20 - June 26, 2025

  • Creativity Sequence: Aug 26 - Oct 2, 2025

Check our Guest Calendar to find all Live Writing Studio dates and times in your own time zone.

Already a WriteSPACE Studio member? No need to enroll. You’ll find the dates, times, and Zoom links for all Live Writing Studio sessions in your WS Studio Calendar. (Writing Catalyst participants, check your Catalyst Calendar).

Join the WriteSPACE Studio today!

(Current WriteSPACE members, please visit our Upgrade page.)

 
WriteSPACE Studio
$45.00
Every month
$450.00
Every year

Subscribe to the WriteSPACE Studio for just USD $45/month or $450/year (Yearly members get two months free). For a full list of benefits, click here.

Have a discount code? Simply enter it at checkout.

 
 

Membership is payable by credit card or Paypal and renews automatically each month or year. You can cancel your subscription any time in the My Account section. Please view our terms and conditions here.

Contact us if you wish to request an invoice for a fixed-term annual membership.

NOTE: All prices are in US dollars.

 
 

Image credit - Photo by Helen Sword; background wallpaper by Flox.