workshops
Scroll down to find out how to access recordings of my previous zoom workshops
All the workshops I run always offer free, concessionary and pay-what-you-can places, you’re very welcome to have your camera off – and if you can’t join live on the night, all ticketholders receive a link to the recording shortly afterwards. Scroll down for access to recordings of past Zoom workshops.
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My Next Unbox Your Words Zoom Workshops:
ZOOM Unbox Your Words: Short & Sweet Sunday 6th Dec 7-7.45pm UK Time.
Time is the one thing no-one quite seems to have enough of these days, so here’s a writing workshop that will give your writing and reading muscles a boost in only 45 minutes! We’ll squeeze in two writing exercises and a discussion of pieces I bring for us to read, all designed 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. Details and booking here, concessions and pay-what-you can available, and there will be a recording if you can’t join live: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/taniahershman/2474171
ZOOM Unbox Your Words: Writing Muscle Workout. Tues 29th Dec 7-8pm UK Time.
Let’s slip in one last workshop in 2026 to get your writing muscle warmed up after the holidays! 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. Details and booking here, concessions and pay-what-you can available, and there will be a recording if you can’t join live: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/taniahershman/2474168
ZOOM Unbox Your Words: Permission Workshop – Start Your New Year of Writing Your Way! Sun 10th January 7-8.30pm UK Time.
Are there things you almost always or never do when you write, habits you’ve gotten into, either in the way you write or in the writing itself? What are your own personal writing taboos? The first step is to identify them – and then see what happens when you break habits, step towards what you haven’t given yourself permission to even try. In this interactive workshop, I’ll offer you prompts for you to think about and discuss your own habits and taboos via the chat box. There will also be writing exercises to encourage you to experiment with breaking those habits and taboos, and discover new ways to enrich and liberate your own writing. Details and booking here, concessions and pay-what-you can available, and there will be a recording if you can’t join live: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/taniahershman/2474171
IN PERSON Jan 18-23rd, The Hurst, Shropshire Arvon course – Poetry: Queer and Queering Poetic Forms
What might a ‘queer’ poem be? I’m delighted to be co-tutoring with fellow Nine Arches poet James McDermott on this wide-ranging course exploring poems from the traditional to the experimental, using a wide range of sources to generate material and taking prompts from a variety of topics, including science. You will gain tools and techniques to help you explore queer content and a queering of form in your writing. All abilities welcome. Midweek guest is our fellow Nine Arches poet, Kym Deyn! Details and booking here: https://www.arvon.org/writing-courses/courses-retreats/residential-writing-course-poetry-22/ As with all residential Arvon courses I tutor on, I will be raising funds to offer at least one free place to someone from an underrepresented or marginalised community who would never otherwise be able to attend this course.Once we have the funds in place, I’ll be opening applications for the free place in November. Stay tuned!
Recordings of Past Zoom Workshops
Sounds Inspired!
‘When Physics Meets Fairy Tales’
‘Fairy Tale and Crime Mashup’
Unwritten Women – Filling History’s Gaps’
Writing Muscle Workout 6 (April 2026)
Writing Muscle Workout 5 (Feb 2026)
Writing Muscle Workout 4 (Nov 2025)
‘Permission’ Workshop (Jan 2026)
To watch recordings of one or more of my previous Unbox Your Words Zoom workshops above – 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 (or more than one) you’d like to watch, and I will send you links and passcodes!
Testimonials:
Lovely feedback from Michelle M on my March 2026 Zoom writing workshop: “Phenomenal, Tania. The time flew by, and none of it felt like work. I have a few promising ideas.” That’s exactly what I’m hoping for!
“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.” Writing Muscle Workshop Participant, Sept 2025
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
“I haven’t written anything new in months and this was exactly the kickstart I needed!!!” Marina S, 2020