Writing Bogwise

A series of online workshops exploring how moors, swamps and other boggy places don’t just offer inspiring locations and fascinating subjects – they also guide us into new ways of writing.

With expert facilitators Clare Shaw and Anna Chilvers, you'll travel to bogs, moors and peatlands around Britain and beyond, and asking - what can we learn from bogs? What do they need from us? How can that seep into our writing?

Expect …. the art of listening, fluidity, memoir, moss, mythologies, animism, storytelling, history, seeing the invisible, deep time, creative non-fiction, self-care. queer ecology, poetry and much much more.

Anna Chilvers (Bluemoose) and Clare Shaw (Bloodaxe) are popular writers and facilitators who have authored and edited 14 books between them - including novels, poetry and creative non-fiction. In 2025, they co-edited “The Book of Bogs”, featuring leading writers of ecology, nature and place.

You can book workshops on an individual basis for £25 per workshop, or, for a complete immersion in the world of the bog, you can book all eight for £125 (three workshops free!). If you book for any individual workshop, the date of the first workshop, 18 March, may show during the booking process. Don’t worry if you are booking a different date, continue with the process and you will get a ticket for your chosen date.

If you would like to come but can’t afford it, please get in touch: shaw_clare@hotmail.com

The workshops will be on Wednesday mornings from 10am-12 noon on the following dates:

18 March

15 April

20 May

17 June

22 July

19 August

16 September

21 October