Guiding you on your writing journey

​Writing in English in a sea of Hebrew can feel isolating. 

WriteSpace Jerusalem offers community and a wide array of quality writing workshops and seminars showcasing talented writers from Israel and abroad, with a view to nurturing English-language writing in Israel.

Choose areas of interest, from fiction, poetry and memoir to fantasy and food blogging, to build a program tailored to your needs. 

​What would you like to see on offer? Contact us and we'll try to make it happen.

How do I hear about what's on offer?

Sign up for our monthly newsletter below or check out the seminars listed below
WriteSpace Jerusalem in the News
There's a great feature about us by Emily Rose in The Times of Israel, November 24, 2016.

There's a wonderful article about us by Natalie Chetboun, entitled, 'A space of one's own" in The Jerusalem Post,  June 17, 2016, ​
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What's NEW?

The Teen Writing Program

We've created a program especially for teens. We'll introduce teens to a wide variety of genres and nurture their writing through exposure to talented writers from Israel and abroad.

Following on from the success of our first series on fiction & playwriting, we're offering an 8-week workshop on poetry & slam poetry starting April 26.

Registration is open
Book now to ensure your place

Upcoming Seminars & Workshops

Story Foundations 
April 25-June 20, 2017

​Focus on Craft (Prose Workshop)
with writers & editors
Batnadiv HaKarmi & Nadia Jacobson

From the Concrete to the Sublime 
Revealing the meaning & secrets of your story
April 27, 2017
One-day Personal Essay/Memoir seminar 
with award-winning writer
Sherri Mandell
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  • Engage your senses, hone your skills and ​put words on the page in a series of 8 creative writing workshops with fiction writer, Nadia ​Jacobson, and hybrid & creative non-fiction writer, Batnadiv HaKarmi.​
  • Need help pushing your story through from beginning to end? 
  • Break through “writer’s block".
  • Move your story from your imagination onto the page. 
  • Learn how manage the creator and editor sides of your brain. ​
A one-day workshop on personal essay & memoir writing based on the four levels of hermeneutics of Biblical interpretation, with the acronym of PARDES:
  • pshat (the simple meaning),
  • remez (what it reminds us of),
  • drash (the meaning), and 
  • sod (the secret that waits to be revealed), 
This framework provides a conceptual map for analyzing any experience or encounter. It also provides an excellent structure for thinking about and developing any piece of writing.

Escape into the ​
​Unexpected
April 25-June 20, 2017

Poetry Workshop (advanced)
with award-winning poet 
Jane Medved

​White Fire: The Spaces Between Words
TBD May-June, 2017


​Experiential workshop with
trained bibliotherapist & poet,
Sheffi Raiskin
Join award-winning poet Jane Medved in a series of 6 workshops, in which we will examine various techniques to outwit our rational brain and “write ahead of our conscious minds." 

​We will study the techniques of other writers and put into practice the art of startling ourselves. Class time will be spent on editing and refining our own poems, as well as generating new material. This workshop is for writers with experience.
​The Torah is said to have been written as black fire on white fire. We will be dealing with the realm of the white fire, the spaces between the words.

Since no text can fully delineate every aspect of the story, readers become part of the creative process, constantly filling in the gaps with their own contexts — things seen, felt, experienced, and read. Bibliotherapy deals with the ways in which we fill in these gaps. ​