How to Write a Book Workshop

By Caroline Corcoran & Caroline Hulse  

Successful local professional author Caroline Corcoran is back, this time with local author Caroline Hulse to run the regular sell-out workshops as part of Chester Literature Festival!  

They know a few things about writing – between them their books have been translated into multiple foreign languages and sold across the world. They have been nominated for awards, and appeared on bestseller lists.  

Now – whether you have a germ of an idea or an almost-there manuscript – they want to help you write your book in this intimate and practical workshop. With experience of both fiction and non-fiction, the Caroline’s will help to get you writing confidently and with structure and purpose, whatever genre you’re aiming for.   

The workshop will provide you with practical methods, tips, tricks and ideas to get your words onto the page in a format that will make agents and editors take notice. The session will end with a Q&A so that we can tailor advice to what you need and the stage you are at.   

Caroline Corcoran is an internationally published Sunday Times bestselling author whose work has been translated into multiple foreign languages and sold around the world. Caroline’s debut Through the Wall was followed by The Baby Group in 2021, Five Days Missing in 2022, What Happened on Floor 34? in 2023, TINY DAGGERS in 2025 and THE NEXT WOMAN, which came out this March. 

Caroline’s books are marketed as psychological thrillers or ‘domestic noir’ but they are also very much books about the female experience, tackling big themes such as infertility, domestic violence, work and its role in our lives, female friendship, new motherhood, sexual assault and mental health.  

Prior to writing novels, Caroline was a journalist, working for Stylist, Grazia, Marie Claire, the Telegraph, the Independent, the Mirror, the Guardian and many of the other biggest newspapers, magazines and websites in the country. If you speak to her for longer than three minutes, she will tell you about the time she interviewed Beyonce. Now, her interviewees take on a more literary form as she is a regular chair of book events and panels so that most of the time that isn’t spent writing her own books is spent reading other people’s. 

Caroline Hulse lives in Manchester and has always lived in the area, except for when she studied English at the University of Sheffield. She is the author of four book club fiction novels under her full name: Reasonable People, All the Fun of the Fair, Like a House on Fire and The Adults.  Under the name CE Hulse, her debut crime novel is Vivian Dies Again. 

Her books have been published in fourteen languages and optioned for television. She worked in HR for seventeen years and wrote books at night, never thinking writing could be a real job. She was amazed when, in 2017, she got offered a book deal and was able to write for a living — a job she could do in pyjamas with a dog at her feet. The dream! Or so she thought.