If you are looking to voice your silences through writing, there are many excellent organisations which offer in person and online teaching to help you get started, or develop your work. They support multiple genres including prose, creative nonfiction and memoir as well as poetry.

Below are just a few of the resources which our writers have used. We would welcome suggestions for other tried and tested places where you can follow courses, or connect with mentoring and support schemes. Organisations offering courses please send us details of your offerings.

• Arvon: Online during the Pandemic and residential courses normally with bursaries for writers in need and access to the Jerwood Arvon Mentoring schemes.

• Creative Futures say ‘We are an arts organisation and charity. We specialise in supporting creative people, underrepresented artists and communities facing barriers & inequality to opportunity. Our mission is to make the arts more diverse and representative of the world we live in.’

• Creative Scotland offers a wide range of resources for writers.

• Literature Wales offers residential and online courses and support for writers at every stage of their careers.

• National Centre for Writing celebrates and explores the artistic and social power of creative writing and literary translation. Our on-going programme of innovative collaborations engages writers, literary translators and readers, in person and online, in projects that support new voices and new stories, and respond to the rapidly changing world of writing.

• New Writing North was established in 1996 to support writers in the north of England to fulfil their creative ambitions. We believe the arts are for everyone and talent is everywhere. We want to make the North of England a culturally rich place and we work with many brilliant partners to achieve this goal.

• The Poetry School is the UK's largest provider of poetry education, providing inspiring poetry tuition and ways to share your work with other supportive poets, for everyone.

• Spread the Word is a London based writer development agency with online courses and financial support available for students in need.

• Writing East Midlands is a writer development and support agency.

• Writing West Midlands is a writer development and support agency working out of Birmingham.