• Creative Writing Society - Student Membership£0.00
• Creative Writing Society - Associate Membership£2.00

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How to Write Compelling Dialogue

Dialogue can feel flat when it’s lacking rhythm, substance, or personality. Characters come alive through their dialogue, and strong dialogue pushes the plot along. In real life, most people have their own quirks when they speak. We'll discuss different ways authors approach dialogue and why readers are drawn to this. We've got some prompts and activities for you to try if you find that your dialogue feels flat!

Bring your scrapbooks!

Tuesday 7th October, 6pm-8pm

Room - Owen 1032

Stuck In Writer's Block?

We provide meetings aimed at supporting writers and providing a network for writers to connect and share their work. Receiving feedback on your writing can be difficult to adjust to. In our society we aim to create a space for writers to receive feedback in workshops in a low risk environment. Gain experiencing editing your drafts and networking with creatives in the industry!

Weekly Rotation:

Week 1: Book Club - meet others with similar interests and discover new books!

Week 2: Writing Activities and Prompts - if you are stuck in a writer's block or want to experiment with different ideas, we have a range of writing activities to help you enhance your writing. Previous writing activities have involved character creation, writing scenes only of dialogue, and randomised prompts for poetry. We cater these activities across many forms of writing (poetry, script, novels/shorts, and comics) but if there's a form of writing we haven't engaged with yet, then we are more than happy to cater meet ups to requests.

Week 3: *Writing Workshops - receive feedback on your work and gain experience editing your drafts for publishing!

Week 4: Trip/Social/Industry Speaker - hear from writers and other creatives in the industry across film, games, animation and illustration, opportunities to receive advice about publishing from agents and editors. If we do not have a guest speaker booked in then we will host a free write, a trip (e.g. The Peak District, Grimm and Co. etc), or a social.

*No one is expected to workshop if they don't feel comfortable. We know sharing your writing can feel personal and potentially embarrassing, so take as much time as you need to settle in. Our aim is to create a space to build a writer's confidence so they can feel comfortable sharing work they are proud of.

You cannot access the Google Drive or take part in the workshops/meetings unless you have a membership. This is a measure to help protect against plagiarism of our members' work. 

Society Members get 20% off all food and drink and The Beaten Track, 44-46 Campo Ln, S1 2DE

We hold meetings every Tuesday where you can choose to write either your own projects or using the prompts of the week, share ideas and stories and get advice off others, or use that time to socialise with the society. We hold workshops every two weeks, and a google drive is accessible to share your work on our Discord where you will also find the submission guidelines (word count etc.). Whether you want to discover unpublished authors at your university, share your work with other writers or simply want a creative space to work on any of your projects without having to worry about a deadline, grab your membership below!

Previous Workshops and Events:

Get your membership to access materials!

20.6.25 Queer Poetry Showcase by T Goffe

19.5.25 A comic workshop experimenting with published comics and creating our own!

28.4.25 ORIGIN is a mental health intervention for young people to creatively tell hidden stories from archives and museums. These stories will be published on a online museum for any young person struggling with their mental health.

They have launched the Co-Designers network for people aged 16-24 to send them creative pieces and historical pieces that interest them.

Kerry and Sophie will be running a workshop for us this Monday where will be using an archive material for activities during the workshop.