The Writing Journey

Befriend the page, discover your voice & finally be able to call yourself a writer.

This online course is designed to develop an intimate writing practice and to become acquainted with the power of your unique voice. Maybe you’re tired of instructional videos or you’re struggling to sit down alone at your desk and put pen to paper. If you’re looking to be part of a supportive writing community, join us! You can expect to generate lots of writing, explore playful prompts and doorways into writing, gain confidence in giving feedback, reading like a writer and sharing your work aloud. Plus, plenty of dynamic discussions around process, community, collaboration, projects and publishing. The workshop fee will give you access to: 10 live two-hour writing workshops via Zoom. Online Monday evenings, from 7-9pm (CET). Upcoming course begins.. Access to three generative writing groups per week. Mondays, from 9-10am, Wednesdays, from 7-8pm, and Thursdays, from 2-3pm, to foster a writing practise and a writing community. 1 one-to-one online mentoring and/or feedback session with one of the workshop facilitators. Timings TBC.

• Price: 450 Eur Includes 10, two-hour live workshops, plus 30 live generative writing groups and 1-1 mentoring.
• Check this PDF for more information about the course.

Close Course

The Writing Project

A group for writers who have (or want!) a project to work on. A space to generate, reflect, foster a writing community and create a habit of completion.

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Emilie Delcourt (@emiliedelcourt)

• Course duration: 5 months
• Workshop: Every 2 weeks
• Generative writing groups: 1 hour, 3 times a week
• Price: 595 Eur

Close Course

One-off Workshops

One-off workshops and retreats, both online and in-person.

Periodically we offer one-off workshops and retreats, both online and in-person. During these workshops we provide playful and insightful prompts and exercises to enter into our writing and to explore a variety of themes. It is an opportunity to come together and be inspired by a supportive community of writers. All levels and genres are welcome!

Past workshops have included:

• Shadows & Light (free online workshop, December 2023)
• Wild Words (day-long writing and walking retreat in Montserrat, May 2024)
• The Blank page (free online workshop, January 2025)

Close Course

Harriet Sandilands

Writer and art therapist

Harriet Sandilands is a British writer and art therapist living in the mountains outside of Barcelona. She writes poetry and prose which has appeared in Country Music, Libro Rojo, epoema, Barcelona Ink, HAU,Talking About Strawberries, Porridge and Litro. She also co-edits the annual Barcelona literary journal Parentheses and organises experimental art workshops in the Magic Mountain. She co-invented The Poetry Machine which has travelled across Europe, and has participated in The Poetry Brothel (as Lola Page) and The Poetry Dispensary. In 2023, she was headline poet for International Poetry Day in Manresa where she read a series of “postcard poems” from the pandemic and beyond. She is currently delighting in the possibilities of the short story format. Harriet loves helping others to trust the process of writing, as a way of having patience with what Rilke calls “everything that remains unsolved in your heart”. She believes writing can be an act of community and communion and wants to help other writers to find and establish a stronger relationship with their own creative voices.

Close

Emilie Delcourt

Writer, editor and translator

Emilie Delcourt was born in the United States and has been living and working in Catalonia since 2002. She is a poet, translator, teacher, and mama of two. For five years Emilie was also the co-editor of Parentheses, an annual international literary journal. Her work has been published in various journals and magazines, including New American Writing 33, Porridge magazine, Clerestory, Libro Rojo, and Piel, amongst others. She recently finished her first book-length collection of poetry, and is currently looking for a home for it. Emilie has been involved in many poetry projects (the Poetry Machine, the Poetry Brothel, La Expendeduría Poetica, Collage), and has organized workshops and readings for over 15 years. She is interested in the power of writing in community and what it means to really show up to the page. Writing is permissive ground, and the act of writing itself is a generous one. Emilie feels that her purpose is to hold space for writers and support them in finding their voices and sharing them with the world.

Close

Emilie Delcourt

Poet, translator, teacher, and mama of two

Emilie Delcourt was born in the United States and has been living and working in Catalonia since 2002. She is a poet, translator, teacher, and mama of two. For five years Emilie was also the co-editor of Parentheses, an annual international literary journal. Her work has been published in various journals and magazines, including New American Writing 33, Porridge magazine, Clerestory, Libro Rojo, and Piel, amongst others. She recently finished her first book-length collection of poetry, and is currently looking for a home for it. Emilie has been involved in many poetry projects (the Poetry Machine, the Poetry Brothel, La Expendeduría Poetica, Collage), and has organized workshops and readings for over 15 years. She is interested in the power of writing in community and what it means to really show up to the page. Writing is permissive ground, and the act of writing itself is a generous one. Emilie feels that her purpose is to hold space for writers and support them in finding their voices and sharing them with the world.

Close Project