Emma Darwin | Historical Fiction · Writing Craft · Memoir

Workshop Instructor

Emma Darwin’s new novel, The Bruegel Boy, has been named as one of The Times Best Historical Novels for 2025, and Book of the Month. Her debut, The Mathematics of Love is probably the only novel ever simultaneously nominated for both Commonwealth Writers Best First Book and RNA Book of the Year awards, and her second novel, A Secret Alchemy, was a Sunday Times bestseller. She is also the author of Get Started in Writing Historical Fiction and the memoir This is Not a Book About Charles Darwin. She holds a PhD in Creative Writing from Goldsmiths, has taught at Oxford University, Goldsmiths and the Open University, and her renowned blog This Itch of Writing with Emma Darwin, now on Substack, is coming up for its twentieth birthday; it’s linked to by writing courses around the world.

Workshops by Emma

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Where to Start with Historical Fiction — June 24

Want to write historical fiction but feeling overwhelmed by research? Or just not sure how to turn source material into a narrative? Emma Darwin shows us how to unearth nuggets of inspiration from the history books and explore different ways of finding your way into a story.