About us


Write to Think was born when the three of us, who have known each other for years, discovered that we’d all arrived at a similar point in our work: a shared conviction that the unique power of the creative writing workshop could have a positive effect on the workplace. We formed Write to Think Ltd in the spring of 2024, and set to work bringing our model into new spaces – to businesses, public sector organisations, NGOs and charities.

Jean and Julia have seen the profound personal and professional benefits of these methods over decades of teaching creative writing at the highest level – and as writers themselves. Suzy’s whole career had been dedicated to writing, on the publishing side; and having recently programmed an innovative series of workshops designed exclusively for therapists, she had witnessed the real magic that can happen when a group of professionals, working toward a common goal, come together to write in an expertly facilitated space.

It's often said that people write in order to work out what they think – in our years working with writing and writers we’ve also seen the surprise and pleasure that can result from the process: the naturalness of thought, expression and connection that surfaces when people are given the time and space to be spontaneous through writing. This is what we seek to recreate in our workshops, which more than anything else bring participants together: by encouraging people to listen to and develop their own voices, confidence in relating to others grows – which enables new kinds of thinking, learning, problem-solving and being.

A Write to Think workshop is a space in which every participant becomes aware of the power and effects of their own ideas and language. In a world where cliché and technology can stifle thought – and with it true innovation – the searching examination of ideas that results helps people and organisations get to the root of problems and opportunities, improve writing skills and build confident communication. We’ve worked with a range of organisations – corporate, public sector and charities – and in every case have seen and heard the positive, lasting effects for all participants: a renewed relationship with writing, and a newfound trust and understanding of colleagues. They have a lot of fun, too!

  • is Professor and director of the creative writing programme at the University of East Anglia. She is the author of 15 published books of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Her work has won several international awards. Her account of being writer in residence in Antarctica, Ice Diaries, won Canada’s Banff International Mountain Film and Book Festival's Grand Prize and was named one of the best nature writing books of 2018. Her most recent novels include The Dhow House (2017) and Fire on the Mountain (2018); Day for Night won the 2022 Independent Publishers Association’s (US) Gold Medal in literary fiction in 2022. She has taught creative writing in Antarctica, South Africa, Kenya, Tanzania, Malaysia, Singapore and Australia.

  • is a Reader in Creative Writing at Birkbeck, University of London. She has published widely across poetry, non-fiction and fiction. She has written three novels and co-edited the bestselling The Creative Writing Coursebook; her most recent book-length essay on attention in the internet age, Radical Attention, was picked by Ali Smith as an indispensable book for navigating the next twenty years. Her collection of poetry, Hymnal, was nominated as Welsh book of the Month and her essays and short stories have been published in The Times Literary Supplement, The New Statesman, The Paris Review and Prospect as well as broadcast on the BBC. She has given talks and workshops across many contexts for London Zoo, RIBA, the Selfridges Group, MAD/Fest, and the British Council.

  • has over thirty years’ experience working with writers and writing. After several years at Bloomsbury Publishing, she became a book scout, representing a number of clients in Europe and the US. She was the co-creator and Director of The Folio Prize (now known as The Writers’ Prize) for which she remains a trustee. In support of the prize and in association with the British Library she designed and curated a series of annual events that explored the art of writing. She was an advisor to Confer, a company that provides educational events related to psychotherapy, on setting up a books division (shortlisted for the IPG’s Best Newcomer Award in 2021) and programming workshops that connect writing and issues related to mental health.