workshops

Participant in Sept’s Writing Muscle Workout: “last night was JOYOUS! Thank you! …A shot in the arm in an overly-earnest world (which, as we know, is STIFLING for creativity!) Your workshops are like rocket fuel.”

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WORKSHOP RECORDINGS

To watch recordings of my previous two Unbox Your Words Zoom workshops – ‘When Physics Meets Fairy Tales’ and/or November’s ‘1-Hour Writing Muscle Workout’ – slip whatever amount feels right to you into my Tip Jar below, let me know in the PayPal message or by email to taniah@gmail.com which one you’d like to watch (or both), and I will send you link and passcode!

2026 WORKSHOPS

There are always concessions, free places and pay-what-you-can for all my workshops, and if you can’t join live on the night, all ticketholders receive a link to the recording shortly afterwards.

Mon Jan 19th 7-8.30pm UK ZOOM Unbox Your Words: Permission Workshop – Getting Out of Your Own Way!

This is a workshop I have taken to running every January which is not about making resolution but helping you spot your writing taboos, shoulds and shouldn’ts, so you can kickstart your New Year of Writing! Concession, free and pay-what-you-can places availble. Details and booking here: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/taniahershman/1889189

Sun Feb 8th 7-9pm UK ZOOM Unbox Your Words: Fairy Tales and Crime Mashup!

Writers have been using fairy tales as inspiration for centuries, borrowing characters, structures and general fairytaleishness for their fictions, poetry, creative non-fiction, hybrids and beyond!. And when you think about it, don’t many fairy tales involve crimes? Goldilocks’ breaking & entering of the Three Bears’ home; Jack’s murder of the beanstalk-based giant; Bluebeard’s heinous serial killing; the Snow Queen kidnapping Kai, and so many more. So it only seems natural to mash these two together and see what ensues. Come join us and see what you create in this collision, whatever word-shapes you want to write in! Concession, free and pay-what-you-can places availble. Details and booking here: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/taniahershman/2004232

Mon Feb 23rd 7-8pm UK ZOOM Unbox Your Words: 1-Hour Writing Muscle Workout

Do you know about your writing muscle? The more you write, the warmer it gets, and that means it can be stretched in all sorts of different directions! Join me for this quick-fire Zoom workshop where we will get your writing muscle limbered up with three different writing exercises in 60 minutes… The aim is, as always, to give you permission to play, and create brand new drafts in whatever shape you choose (fiction, poem, non-fiction, hybrid, other) or help you write something you’re working on or that you’ve wanted to write for a while but were having trouble coming at head-on. Concession, free and pay-what-you-can places availble. Details and booking here: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/taniahershman/2004234

Testimonials:

From Zoom workshop March 2025:

Workshop participant: “You were amazing. Everyone was buzzing afterwards and there was a sense of permission to play that was talked about all day”

Sue: It’s been a great workshop – I write historical fiction so this has been a real eye opener for me – thank you Tania

Bridget: Thank you so much. Got me writing again! Such fun.

Sarah: Such a liberating freeing experience, thank you

Karen: This was definitely fun and instructive – thanks so much, Tania!

Monica: Thank you for the workshop!! Got to read so many interesting pieces

Pauline: Fabulous, Tania – love your sessions. So refreshing to try new approaches/ideas. Thank you!

Georgina N, participant in a Zoom flash fiction masterclass, Nov 2021: “Thank you Tania. It was like letting loose a swarm of humming bees to make honey. Clever facilitation.”

“Two hours of flash heaven this morning with Tania Hershman on her #flashfiction workshop. Excellent #writing exercises (I have 3 new micros at least!) & thoughtful, intelligent tips. ‘Liberation through constraint’ is my new mantra.” Tracy F, 2020

“Didn’t think I had it in me, but here I am at 8am EST, with four new flash story drafts written in the past two hours, thanks to Tania Hershman & her fab writing exercises… Thank you, Tania I’ve been writing, but not freely. This forced me to let go, something I have a very hard time doing with my writing. So grateful to Tania.” Janice L, 2020

“Brilliant flash fiction workshop with @taniahershman this morning. Came away with 4 drafts and now I need a nap! Also lovely to hear Tania echo my own sentiments of the line between poetry and flash being so thin” Sarah S, 2020