Cornwall Writers

26/02/2026

Looking forward to reading this one when it's launched..

Pre-ordered copies are now available to buy in our specialist bookshop of this limited edition hardback of Flora's Day - the excellent new novel by ...

https://hermitagepress.co.uk/products/floras-day

24/02/2026

Putting a Collection Together with Katrina Naomi
Sat 23 May 2026 11:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Tickets: £50

Putting a Collection Together - in this day's workshop, we'll look at questions & practicalities. How do I know when I'm ready? What are editors looking for? How do I find a publisher & how do I submit? Should my collection be themed? Should I be writing a pamphlet instead? Katrina will offer tops on making your collection as strong as it can be & will demystify the whole process from submission to publication & beyond. A day of discussion & practical exercises to give you confidence & a way ahead.

Katrina’s fourth poetry collection, Battery Rocks, (Seren, 2024) won the Arthur Welton Award from the Society of Authors, the Holyer an Gof award for Poetry from the Cornish Gorsedh, and was recommended in The Guardian. Her previous collections have won an Authors’ Foundation Award and Saboteur Award, the latter jointly with Helen Mort. She is a recipient of the Keats-Shelley Prize and has twice been highly commended in the Forward Prize. Katrina’s poetry has appeared on Poems on the Underground, BBC Radio 4’s Front Row, The Verb, Open Country and Poetry Please, and in The TLS, The Poetry Review and Modern Poetry in Translation. In September 2025, Katrina published the pamphlet dance as if with Verve, following a collaboration with dancer/choreographer Kyra Norman. Before poetry, Katrina worked as an activist and commissioning editor for an international human rights organisation. She has a PhD from Goldsmiths and tutors for Arvon and the Poetry School. Katrina lives in Penzance. www.katrinanaomi.co.uk

https://www.tickettailor.com/events/thewritersblock/2067543

Photo of Katrina Naomi credit: Ian Kingsnorth

23/02/2026

Our team are flat out preparing the 2026 festival programme. We are so excited to show you what the festival will offer this year but in the meantime get ready to book your tickets! And don’t forget if you are a Friend of the Festival you will have early access to book your chosen events 🙌🏼

Festival dates are 1 - 9 May

23/02/2026

✨ Write to Connect: Creating Characters That Breathe ✨

Struggling to make your characters feel real? Want to create protagonists your readers truly care about?

Join me on 7th March, 9am–12pm at Duchy Nursery for a focused, practical workshop all about building characters with depth, motivation, and emotional truth. Through guided exercises and hands-on exploration, you’ll learn how to develop characters that feel authentic and unforgettable to your readers.

And yes… it includes the infamous continental breakfast our writers are already raving about 🥐☕

Spaces are limited and already filling up fast!

23/02/2026

23/02/2026

Spring is right around the corner and as we welcomed the first rays of sun of the year we also welcomed the first of our poets in residence to Cyprus Well, .szobody ☀️

Michelle read and wrote, translated and attempted to solve some riddles, took winding walks with her husband through the moors, and met with Luke Thompson from for some wonderful mentoring! ☺️

Help her solve some olden riddles and read more about her residency at causleytrust.org/blog 📝

A huge thank you to our partners at and to the team at the Fenton Arts Trust without which this program would not be possible! ☺️

23/02/2026

Writing for Radio With Tamara Rosenwyn
Wed 11 Mar 2026 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
The Writers’ Block, The Ladder, 2-4 Clinton Road, Redruth, TR15 2QE

"Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin."

Join Tamara Rosenwyn for a quickfire course in creating a compelling radio play.

Unlike film, we cannot rely on costume and visual effects to help tell these stories so we will be looking at how to create a story in the listener’s head that ignites their imagination.

Tamara Rosenwyn is a Cornish playwright and creative writing workshop facilitator. For two years, she hosted a community radio show and created a segment called ‘Tell us your story’ where she'd interview Cornish people who had done something wonderfully wacky in their life, narrate it and edit it to music. She has an extended diploma in Creative Media Production, training her in radio plays, audio-recording, editing and distribution. At the University of Brighton, she studied ‘Writing for Radio’ under the tutoring of BBC Writer Julie Everton, creating two original radio comedies. She has edited audio for adverts, educational segments (Coast & Source FM) and been a voice actor in a play on Radio Reverb (Brighton & Hove).

https://www.tickettailor.com/events/thewritersblock/1982648

Image: Steve Tanner

23/02/2026

Get ready to ✨ POST YOUR PITCH ✨ Our Indie Extravaganza is open for pitches from 8am-8pm today, 23 February!

Want to pitch to more than one press? No problem! Salon members can post a pitch for any press they feel is a good fit for their work.

The editors from 12 indie presses, including The Emma Press, Linen Press, Hashtag Press, Galley Beggar Press, Bad Betty Press, FT Barbini - Luna Press Publishing, Bluemoose, Seren Books, Wild Hunt Books, Scratch Books and Dahlia Books will be logging on to the Salon tomorrow to read your pitches, offer written feedback and snap up any writers who catch their eye.

Ready, set, pitch! 🙌

https://mslexia.co.uk/salon/events/

22/02/2026

Wow, this is going to be a such a great anthology with such a strong group of writers...

Drum roll please...

We have just announced the names of twelve amazing Cornish Writers who will be featured in our latest short story anthology Salt & Stone...

Find the full list in our latest blog...
https://hermitagepress.co.uk/blogs/news/salt-stone-writers-announced