European Association of Creative Writing Programmes

We had an incredibly interesting, inspiring and fun XXI symposium in Granada, hosted by the amazing 🙏🏻

Granada is literally built on poetry, to quote the workshop of Mary-Jane Holmes, and we got to feel that for one great week with Creative Writing teachers from all over Europe ❤️📃

Let us introduce our amazing teachers for the Teachers Training Course on Historical Writing & Talking Archives starting on march 24th! You still have time to sigh up 👏

Steffie van den Oord (1970) is a writer of 11 (and a half) books. She has published historical novels, short stories and non-fiction, including the bestseller Eeuwelingen (Centenarians). She studied history and literature in Nijmegen and Rome, and used to be a radioreporter and a teacher at ArtEZ. Her non-fiction books are based on ‘oral history’; she loves interviewing old people with good stories 🙌🏻

Laura Martínez-Belli (Barcelona, 1975) is a Spanish novelist and creative writing lecturer whose work has been widely acclaimed across Europe and Latin America. Known for her historical fiction and for restoring the voices of women overlooked by
official histories, she has published several novels translated into English, Polish, Italian, and Serbian. Since 2012, Martínez-Belli has taught creative writing both online and in person, developing extensive expertise in the teaching of historical fiction, narrative structure, and research-based storytelling. She has taught at universities and at Escuela de Escritores in Madrid, working from a transatlantic cultural perspective shaped by her life between Spain, Panama City, and Mexico.

Marianne Jaeglé holds the French agrégation in modern literature and has been leading novel-writing workshops in Paris since 2002. As an author, she has received the Orange Book Prize, as well as two additional literary awards for her most recent novel, L’Ami du Prince (Gallimard, 2024). Her novel Vincent qu’on assassine (Gallimard, 2016) has been translated into Italian, Romanian, Czech, and Japanese. She has also published several works including Écrire, de la page blanche à la publication (Scrinéo), a book on writing ✍🏻

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Happy to announce another edition of the European Flash Fiction Contest! The 2026 theme is ‘silence’☁️

Write your 100 word story incorporating this theme, and you might become the national or even European winner, with prizes of up to €600,- 🙌🏻✨

Find more information about the contest or the participating countries on our website, through the link in our bio!

From the 24th to the 26th of March, the EACWP will be hosting another Virtual European Teacher’s Training Course!

During this 3 day course will be exploring the subject ‘Historical Writing & Talking Archives’ with 3 different teachers 📇✨ We’re happy to introduce: Steffie van den Oord (The Netherlands), Laura Martínez Belli (Spain) and Marianne Jaeglé (France)!

Find more information or sign up through the link in our bio! 👏

From November 18 to 20, 2025, the EACWP launches its eleventh Premium Virtual Edition of its European Course for Teachers of Creative Writing. In this occasion, Carolina Sanín (Colombia) will be the teacher imparting the three sessions and diving over the three consecutive days into the same topic: Creative Reading 📚

Find more information or sign up through the link in our bio! ✨

Happy to share the winning short story of the Flash Fiction Contest 2025! This is Air Hero by Nanna Johansson from Sweden 🇸🇪✨

Enjoying pictures from the EACWP conference in Paris last may!🇫🇷 Thank you so much for hosting the 2025 conference — Writing in the real world — and giving us the opportunity to speak about and celebrate (teaching) Creative Writing in the real world with all these different European perspectives and teachers ❤️📚

We’re loving all the photo’s and experiences everyone is sharing☀️📚 Looking back on an amazing week! Keep them coming 🙌🏻

Opening speeches for the 7th EACWP conference, Writing in the real world, hosted by in Paris! 🌎🖋️ We’re looking forward to these fruitful days, sharing knowledge with Creative Writing teachers from all over Europe!

Let’s get this party started 📚🥳

Deadline extension to register for the International Pedagogical Conference, Writing in the real world, hosted by Aleph-Écriture in Paris! Sign up before may 2nd through our website. ✍️🇫🇷

The EACWP Conference is a biannual event devoted to foster a European and worldwide dialogue on the different approaches to creative writing education. Central to the conference will be an acknowledgement of the importance of writing in the real world and how to approach it in times of political correctness, new forms of censorship and cancel culture.

Will we see you in France? 🥳🥐

📆May 15 to May 17
📍FIAP Jean Monnet, Paris

DEADLINE EXTENDED!

📣 You now have until April 8 to upload your entry for our yearly Flash Fiction Contest 📣

We are eager to invite all writers to write a hundred-word-story centered around the intriguing term “error”. 🛑👾❔

📍 A flash fiction story contains a maximum of a 100 words
📍 Stories have to be written in one of these twelve languages: Arabic, English, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese, French, German, Dutch, Finnish, Swedish, Hebrew and Czech
📍 For more information, and to upload your Flash Fiction piece, visit our website