Cycle
Cycle
before meaning
before meaning
Cycle One · Autumn 2026
Each cycle brings together twelve writers.
Studio operates as a laboratory rather than a workshop. Work is examined closely, dismantled, and rebuilt through sustained attention.
The Practice
Work under investigation is circulated in advance of each session. Writers
arrive already inside the material as it stands that week.
The evening opens with what's been discovered, and what's resisting.
The middle of the session is given to structural investigation.
Each week introduces a provocation—order, destruction, coherence,
withholding, erotics, for example—and new ways to approach the work.
Later, the group moves to a second room, where writers read
from the work emerging that week. These readings form the basis
for further conversation. A new iteration of the work is then circulated for the following week's session.
Studio Conversations
At selected moments during the cycle, writers whose work resonates with the theme may join the studio.
These visits take the form of conversations and interventions in which the writers respond to the studio’s methods and to the work developing in the room.
The Room
Studio is deliberately small in number.
Twelve writers working together over twelve weeks creates the conditions for sustained attention to each body of work.
The cohort becomes a temporary community of readers and thinkers committed to examining writing patiently and rigorously.
Who It’s For
Studio is open to writers working across forms.
Fiction · Essay · Poetry · Hybrid
Participants should be engaged in an ongoing body of work and willing to examine it closely over time.
Prior publication is not required. What matters is commitment to the process and curiosity about what the work might become.
The Structure
Twelve weeks · Twelve writers
Tuesdays · 6:30–9:30pm
Central London
Autumn 2026, with a break over Christmas
Cycle One is the founding cohort, working alongside the director from the beginning.
Fee: £540
£150 deposit to secure a place
£390 payable before the cycle begins
Payments can also be structured. Please mention this in your note
A small number of supported places are available for writers who would be unable to participate at the full fee. If this applies to you, please indicate it in your note—all places are considered equally.
The cycle concludes with a small public presentation of work developed during our time together.
Applications are reviewed individually.
Register interest for Cycle One
Cycle One · Autumn 2026
Each cycle brings together twelve writers.
Studio operates as a laboratory rather than a workshop. Work is examined closely, dismantled, and rebuilt through sustained attention.
The Practice
Work under investigation is circulated in advance of each session. Writers
arrive already inside the material as it stands that week.
The evening opens with what's been discovered, and what's resisting.
The middle of the session is given to structural investigation.
Each week introduces a provocation—order, destruction, coherence,
withholding, erotics, for example—and new ways to approach the work.
Later, the group moves to a second room, where writers read
from the work emerging that week. These readings form the basis
for further conversation. A new iteration of the work is then circulated for the following week's session.
Studio Conversations
At selected moments during the cycle, writers whose work resonates with the theme may join the studio.
These visits take the form of conversations and interventions in which the writers respond to the studio’s methods and to the work developing in the room.
The Room
Studio is deliberately small in number.
Twelve writers working together over twelve weeks creates the conditions for sustained attention to each body of work.
The cohort becomes a temporary community of readers and thinkers committed to examining writing patiently and rigorously.
Who It’s For
Studio is open to writers working across forms.
Fiction · Essay · Poetry · Hybrid
Participants should be engaged in an ongoing body of work and willing to examine it closely over time.
Prior publication is not required. What matters is commitment to the process and curiosity about what the work might become.
The Structure
Twelve weeks · Twelve writers
Tuesdays · 6:30–9:30pm
Central London
Autumn 2026, with a break over Christmas
Cycle One is the founding cohort, working alongside the director from the beginning.
Fee: £540
£150 deposit to secure a place
£390 payable before the cycle begins
Payments can also be structured. Please mention this in your note
A small number of supported places are available for writers who would be unable to participate at the full fee. If this applies to you, please indicate it in your note—all places are considered equally.
The cycle concludes with a small public presentation of work developed during our time together.
Applications are reviewed individually.
Register interest for Cycle One