Upcoming Writing Courses
If you’re interested in any of our upcoming writing courses – Marrakech Masterclasses, Bath Retreats, or London Workshops – please drop us an email on shopsilkroadslippers@gmail.com. We’ll be glad to answer any questions on email or on the phone.
Samantha Harvey
Samantha Harvey won the Booker Prize 2024 for her bestselling novel Orbital.
1 – 6 March 2026
Max Porter
Max Porter’s Grief is the Thing With Feathers won multiple awards. He is currently adapting his #1 bestselling novel Shy for Netflix, starring Cillian Murphy.
8 – 13 March 2026
London Workshops
One-day intensive Writing Workshop on a houseboat in Chelsea, London.
28 March 2026
London Workshops
One-day intensive Writing Workshop on a houseboat in Chelsea, London.
12 September 2026
Bath Writing Retreat
Five days of writing and working together as an intimate group in a beautiful Queen Anne mansion in a village on the banks of the River Avon.
5 - 9 October 2026
Mishal Husain
Mishal Husain is one of Britain’s top broadcasters. Her family memoir Broken Threads: My Family From Empire to Independence became a Sunday Times bestseller in 2024.
15 – 20 November 2026
Maggie O’Farrell
One of Britain’s most acclaimed and popular contemporary authors, Maggie O'Farrell is the winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2021 for her bestselling historical novel Hamnet.
22 – 27 November 2026
Previous Masterclasses
Nadifa Mohamed
Nadifa Mohamed’s The Fortune Men was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Her novels have won multiple awards.
November 2025
Colum McCann
Colum McCann is the author of a dozen books. His awards including The National Book Award, the Dublin Literary Prize and an Oscar nomination
November 2025
Alan Hollinghurst
Alan Hollinghurst is the author of seven novels, and won the Booker Prize 2004 for The Line of Beauty.
March 2025
Esther Freud
Esther Freud is the internationally bestselling author of Hideous Kinky and will publish her tenth novel in 2025.
February 2025
Kamila Shamsie
Kamila Shamsie is the internationally-renowned author of eight novels. Her novel Home Fire won the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2018.
November 2024
Andrew O’Hagan
Andrew O’Hagan has been nominated for the Booker Prize three times. His latest novel is the bestselling Caledonian Road.
November 2024
Monica Ali
March 2024
Monica Ali is the internationally bestselling author of five books, including Brick Lane and Love Marriage.
Clover Stroud
February- March 2024
Clover Stroud is the author of three acclaimed Sunday Times bestselling memoirs: The Wild Other, My Wild and Sleepless Nights and The Red of My Blood.
Abdulrazak Gurnah
November 2023
Abdulrazak Gurnah is the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021.
Shehan Karunatilaka
November 2023
Shehan Karunatilaka is the winner of the 2022 Booker Prize for his second novel The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida.