Expressive Creative Writing Courses & Mentoring

Do you dream of writing memoir, poetry and fiction, but wonder how to begin?

Do you buy notebooks and pens for your creative writing, then never find time to use them?

Do you want to put pen to paper, only to hear your inner critic trying to stop you?

Would you like to share your writing with a small group of supportive fellow writers?

Are you ready to take the plunge and get to know your own, unique creative writing voice?

I run a range of Creative Writing for Wellbeing courses to free up your words, feed your soul, connect you to other people, and make you feel better about both your Creative Writing and yourself. I do this by creating a contained and confidential space in which people can write and build relationships with others at depth in a relatively short space of time. I bring to the work my own creativity, my knowledge of and sensitivity to the English language, my love of poetry, prose and playfulness, and my expertise in working with groups of adults.

Read my course / workshop FAQs, including aims and objectives for participants, and my theoretical approach to running Expressive Creative Writing workshops.

Current courses

Out of Bounds 2

Out of Bounds 2

Thursdays, 27th Feb-3rd April 2025
6.30-8.30 pm (Zoom, UK time)
A follow-on course for anyone who has completed any of the initial Out of Bounds courses run by John and me over the last two years. In these next six sessions, we will …

CoursesRachel Godfrey19 February 2025

FREE Out of Bounds taster session (online)

FREE Out of Bounds taster session (online)

Thursday 24th April
7.00-8.30 pm GMT
Interested to find out how ‘live’ expressive writing can help you gently explore and connect with yourself, your boarding school experience, and others?

CoursesRachel Godfrey10 February 2025

Breathe

Breathe

Tuesdays (Zoom, UK time)
29 April - 24 June 2025
Group 1: 10.00 am-12.00 noon; Group 2: 6.30-8.30 pm
For this eight-week course, I’ll bring a range of ‘breath’-related prompts to sessions 1, 3, 5 and 7. But for sessions 2, 4, 6 and 8, in the spirit of inhale and exhale / call and response, I’ll devise prompts to invite…

CoursesRachel Godfrey28 January 2025

FREE Out of Bounds taster session (online)

FREE Out of Bounds taster session (online)

Thursday 15th May 2025
7.00-8.30 pm GMT
Interested to find out how ‘live’ expressive writing can help you gently explore and connect with yourself, your boarding school experience, and others?

CoursesRachel Godfrey13 January 2025

FREE Out of Bounds taster session (online)

FREE Out of Bounds taster session (online)

Thursday 12th June 2025
7.00-8.30 pm GMT
Interested to find out how ‘live’ expressive writing can help you gently explore and connect with yourself, your boarding school experience, and others?

CoursesRachel Godfrey10 January 2025

Poetry for the Curious: Writing your way

Poetry for the Curious: Writing your way

Tuesdays (Zoom) 22nd July - 19 August 2025, 2.00-4.00 pm BST
‘What even is poetry, anyway?’
This five-week course is a gentle introduction…

CoursesRachel Godfrey8 January 2025

Out of Bounds 1

Out of Bounds 1

Thursdays, 24th July-28th Aug 2025
6.30-8.30 pm BST (Zoom)
A series of six Creative Writing for Wellbeing workshops offering ex-boarders inroads towards …

CoursesRachel Godfrey9 October 2023

My Dreaming Self: Creative writing from dreams

My Dreaming Self: Creative writing from dreams

Next course dates TBC
Like poetry, our dreams juxtapose images, motifs and metaphors in fresh and surprising ways…

CoursesRachel Godfrey2 December 2022

Mentoring and Editing

Mentoring and Editing

One-to-one sessions to help you develop and build confidence in your Expressive Creative Writing practice.

CoursesAnne Tregoning4 June 2021