Spring Forward Fall Back. The clocks go forward this weekend and we lose an hour. What might have happened in the lost hour? Use one or...

REFUGE Use one of the pictures below to write about a person seeking and finding refuge.

A long walk.

A story from the moon and bit and pieces.Use the elements below to create an atmospheric scene or story (or a novel?) with layers of...

You've got your draft and now you come to edit it. The problem is that you've been looking at the same words over and over for so long...

Susanna will be teaching a new WRITING A NOVEL course in Brighton from Saturday 5th March. The venue is the lovely St Augustine's Arts...

Somewhere in the boxes below is a mystery. What and whose is it? What happens to the box?

Waiting. What do our characters reveal about themselves when they're waiting? How does time work in fiction or a poem in a situation...

All this talk of finally getting back to normal. What's normal? Write the story of one of these pictures. For a hard-core challenge,...

The images are everywhere in January: beautiful beaches and turquoise skies, swimsuits, cocktails, sun loungers and gleaming skin. It's...

THE OFFICE CHRISTMAS PARTY Sadly they had to cancel the Christmas party that year. What happened instead?

Pebble Beach Writing grew out of a series of free writing sessions Susanna gave last year during the winter lockdown. The weekly online...

Monday evening sessions will continue until December 20th. You can book for one or both here: https://www.pebblebeachwriting.com/60-minut...

In last Monday's writing session we looked at ways of bringing music into our writing. Some people used the rhythm or mood of a piece of...

It's December and at Pebble Beach we're complaining, as we like to do, that the year has been a blur. We can't really account for it all...

Got a cold? If you haven't, someone you know surely has. There are plenty going around at the moment. Former Poet Laureate, Andrew...

Saturday 4th December, 9.30–11.30am. Online. £22. By December, a year can feel distinctly blurred, especially if you spent the first...

In our next session (Monday 29th November) we'll look at place and atmosphere as they relate to memory and imagination. What you write...

But I love your feet... 'When I cannot look at your face I look at your feet.' The opening lines of Pablo Neruda's love poem, Your...

Monday's writing session is inspired by the recent bin strike in Pebble Beach's home city of Brighton and Hove. After a couple of weeks,...