Writing Intimacy 1-Day Workshop with Cat Hepburn & Demi Anter

Join the recurring creative writing workshop at Berlin Well led by award-winning authors Cat Hepburn (BBC, Edinburgh Fringe) and Demi Anter (Glastonbury, Poetry Ireland), which explores everything related to intimacy and dating.

This event is aimed at all writers, whether beginners or advanced, who want to refresh their writing, put their own dating experiences on paper and find out how to convey intimacy without cringe.

In this one-day workshop, You will analyse examples from a variety of literary works and use easy-to-understand writing exercises to find out how to approach these topics across genres.

Together, You will explore writing about passionate encounters, lust, and everything in between in a fun and supportive environment.


In this five-hour workshop, you can expect topics such as:

• Writing about romance and intimacy without cringe
• Conveying sensuality in poetry and non-fiction
• Structuring scenes in fictional works
• The challenges of writing about personal experiences
• Writing with all the senses


Please note:

If you wish, you are welcome to bring an idea or a short first draft to discuss with the group (optional).

Due to the nature of the content, the workshop is only open to FLINTA and those aged 18 and over.

Please note that this is not an erotica workshop, although we will be discussing explicit content.

Snacks, tea and coffee are included during the workshop.

The five-hour class will be interrupted by breaks. The workshop room is located on the ground floor and is accessible without steps.


ABOUT THE LECTURERS

Cat Hepburn is a Scottish screenwriter, author and educator whose work spans film, stage and literature. Her television projects include writing scripts and stories for the award-winning soap opera RIVER CITY (BBC Scotland) and developing stories for HOLLYOAKS (Lime Pictures). She has written a number of short films that have been recognised by the Royal TV Society Awards and nominated for a Prix Europa.
Cat's sapphic romantic fantasy novel I KISSED A WEREWOLF AND I LIKED IT was published by Wildfire in May 2025. Her previous book, DATING & OTHER HOBBIES, was published in 2021. Her solo show #GIRLHOOD, based on her poetry collection of the same name, premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2019 to 4- and 5-star reviews. She is currently developing her own TV show with Insight MP and writing her fourth book. Cat has been teaching screenwriting at various universities, including the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, for over a decade and is keen to pass on her expertise.


Demi Anter is an award-winning author and performer whose work includes poetry, creative non-fiction, screenplays and plays. Her work has been published in the US, Europe and the UK by Magma, Cheerio and The Times (UK), and she has performed at Glastonbury Festival, Bristol Old Vic and Poetry Ireland, among others.
In her teaching, she focuses on the power of writing from personal experience and has run workshops for various institutions around the world, including the National Theatre (UK), the Irish Cultural Centre in London and JEV. Her poetry collection Small Machine, which documents her five and a half years in Berlin, was published by Write Bloody UK in 2022. Chanel Miller described it as ‘strikingly luminous and comforting’. Musa Okwonga called it ‘sensitive, haunting and beautifully vulnerable’.

• Date: Feb 8
  
• Time: 13 - 18
  
• Location: Berlin Well, Prenzlauer Promenade 177, 13189 Berlin
  
• Ticket price: €50