Would you like to communicate better at work? Are you struggling with the structure of a report, or the clarity of a proposal?

Maybe you want to write your life story, or start a novel? 

Help is at hand!

When he is not writing fiction and memoir, Charlie teaches academic and business English, with specialisms including report-writing, critical analysis and correspondence. 

Since 2022 he has taught academic writing at De Montfort University as a Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund.  

Charlie also has a wide variety of experience teaching creative writing. In 2022 he delivered a Masterclass in Experimental Writing for the Arvon Foundation, and he has since contributed to the Arvon Friends Library.  He has hosted workshops on Putting Poetry into your Prose, Memoir Writing, and Writing Satire for The Birmingham Literature Festival, Writing West Midlands and Milton Keynes LitFest. He has taught on the short story scene as a Visiting Lecturer at universities including Birmingham and Nottingham. He has also been a regular reader for The Literary Consultancy.

He is particularly interested in the development of your voice, the structure of your work, and the effectiveness and poetry of your sentences. 

Prices are negotiable – if you are interested, please drop him a line. 

What they say...

‘Incredibly useful, honest and approachable.’
Dr Dan Vyleta, University of Birmingham, (On short story seminar)

'…informative, realistic, and importantly, engaging. I would recommend their session.' 
Dr Lila Matsumoto, University of Nottingham (On short story seminar)

‘It was really useful - the content was really interesting and gave me a lot of food for thought. I thought the writing examples used to illustrate the technical aspects being taught were great. There was a lot of content for the 2 hours.’

‘Can you please let Charlie know that his class was absolutely amazing. There was so much he gave in the short amount of time.’ (From participants in Putting Poetry into your Prose)

‘This was fantastic. I used all my confidence to attend and thank you so much. I hope that you will be doing more classes.’

‘Thank you! Such an inspiring masterclass!’ 
(From participants in Arvon Masterclass in Experimental Writing)