PUTTING YOU FIRST

If you can’t attend a workshop you’ve booked for, let us know beforehand and you’ll be able to move your booking to the next available REFiNE or CREATE workshop (whatever works best for you) — ensuring you get the best possible return for your investment.

CREATiVE CONSULTATiONS

Book a creative consultation to discuss your writing project and/or process in detail — and we will provide you with strategies, tools and suggestions to help you achieve your creative goals. Consultations can take place for 60-90 minutes online (£75) or in-person (£85 including coffee & cake) — whichever suits you best. You can submit up to 60 double-spaced pages, or 30 single-spaced pages, and audio and/or visual materials for review. You decide how you’d like to use the time, and what you’d like to focus on, in terms of input and/or constructive feedback.

GET EXPERT iNPUT

CREATE and REFiNE writers workshops and creative consultations are facilitated by Stephen Barnes, a creative polymath with decades of professional experience empowering hundreds of writers — across all forms and levels of experience — to explore and fulfil their unique creative potentials by providing bespoke development strategies and support to them and their projects. He has worked successfully with award-winning playwrights, authors, poets and screenwriters, as well as acclaimed directors, designers, musicians and visual artists, and also with creatives of all ages just beginning to explore their creative potential. He has created and facilitated for highly visible organisations like the BBC, NHS, Tron Theatre, Playwrights Studio Scotland and Bijli Productions, amongst others, and also created projects focused on developing and showcasing the creativity of individuals in less visible, under-resourced communities across Scotland.

What matters to us is helping you achieve your creative goals.