Your private, everyday creative practice is your
resistance.
No one can take it away from you.
I’ll support you to slow down, listen deeply, and find words for what matters most.
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Your voice matters.
The world needs your words.
Taking care of your wellbeing is not an indulgence.
Hi, I’m Sophie Nicholls – Bestselling novelist , Prize-winning teacher and poet, Associate Prof at Teesside University & lifelong apprentice to the power of creativity.
Creativity is, in these challenging times, a place you can go to be your unfettered, uncensored self.
Feeling scratchy or niggled or confused or furious or drenched in sorrow?
The small private act of making something – something real, with our hands, our words, our breath, out of all those vague and slippery feelings – helps us to feel a little less powerless in the face of events that we can’t control.
Looking for a safe space to mould meaning out of all the chaos? You’ve found it. Welcome home.
The Power of Writing for Wellbeing
Your grounding, nurturing and healing practice to make you feel better.
In our work together, we might explore how to…
- Shape the stories we’ve been longing to tell.
- Reconnect with joy and playfulness.
- Make time to tend to ourselves with intimate attention.
- Give voice and form to anger, despair, or the weight of injustice.
- Calm anxiety and let go of stress.
- Cultivate hope and community.
I’ll help you to establish a sustaining writing process and hone your craft with self-compassion.
Writing to soothe anxiety
Free video workshop and workbook
Learn how writing can become your safe space to slow down, breathe, and feel more grounded.
3 Ways to Nurture your Writing Practice
And find the words for what you need to say
Write!Club Membership
The kind, supportive space for nurturing your writing, your creativity and your self.
Retreat with me!
Join me for a one-to-one bespoke writing retreat in the fairy-tale city of York.
WRITING IN COLOUR!
Join me and international writing expert, Helen Sword, to re-energise your writing through colour.
Write! Club
Your writing space and community for new and seasoned writers.
I see, over and over again, that finding form and words for our feelings is a balm.
My deepest wish for you is that you will know that your voice matters, especially if you’ve been told that it doesn’t. The world needs your words – now more than ever before!
Let me hold you and your writing in a beautiful learning space where you can nurture your writing and wellbeing alongside a group of writing peers.
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Won’t you celebrate with me? Writing in community
This week has been a whirlwind of events. Graduation ceremonies at Teesside University where I had the privilege of watching thousands of graduates cross the stage, supported by their loved ones. An end-of term summer concert, a Year 9 graduation ceremony and an art…
When a stationery obsession solves a writing process problem
I had a personal breakthrough during our WRITE! WRITE! WRITE! live session on Monday. My intention for the session was to make a start on outlining a book-length project. When I say, make a start what I really mean is make another start because this is a project that…
Writing for myself
How writing for ourselves can help us as writers and as people. When I was a very small girl, I would spend hours making tiny books out of folded pieces of paper and filling them with my thoughts. I didn’t know it then but this was my way of making sense of the world…
Hi, I’m Sophie
I’m the author of three bestselling novels, and I’ve been teaching creative writing and working with people using writing as creative exploration for over twenty-five years.
On a personal level, the rhythmic movement of my pen over the page or my fingers over the keyboard has soothed me more times than I care to think about.
I live on the edge of the moors in beautiful North Yorkshire in the North East of the UK and I teach on the Creative Writing faculty at Teesside University.
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