About my writing workshops

  • "Silvia offers a safe, welcoming and inspirational space for writers to share. I feel lucky to have found it and encourage anyone who writes or is thinking of writing to come along.”

    — Carys

  • "Silvia shares her craft with flair and sensitivity. A dedicated core group of students has formed around her regular classes. She guides our subtle explorations of the written and spoken word. Enabling and liberating.”

    — Annie

  • "Silvia’s original prompts and thoughtful teaching style have helped me to move through writer’s block and regain my confidence and love for writing. I would highly recommend her lessons for anyone looking for support and inspiration in their writing practice.”

    — Emma

About my mentoring

  • "My one-to-one sessions with Silvia turn out to be both roses and bread - from what seem to be the smallest of practical tips that actually help my whole approach to evolve, to deep insights that excite me with a sense of being seen. I celebrate Silvia's skills and warm interest that nurture and support the writer in me, who is finding new ways to overcome longterm edges and blocks to my written voice. And though we’ve known each other for years, I take my hat off to her for her professional boundaries - so important especially when the work is personal and vulnerable."

    — Iona

  • "I had four one-to-one creative writing sessions with Silvia. I really needed the confidence to start writing and by giving me fun tasks, useful advice and by making me put pen to paper instead of over-thinking, in a calm and relaxed atmosphere, she has managed to make me enjoy the process and even start to develop characters and an idea that has been going round in my head for far too long. This is the push I was looking for and I hope to take my writing to the next level with Silvia’s support again soon."

    — Llinos

  • "Working with Silvia has been such a positive and encouraging experience. She is incredibly helpful and professional, yet always warm and approachable. Her honest feedback and thoughtful, constructive criticism helped me grow in confidence and shake off that ‘imposter syndrome’ that seeps into every writer. I truly appreciated the time, care, and attention she gave to reading and proofreading my work — it has given me the confidence to move forward, not only with my writing but also with taking it to the next level which is publishing."

    Tina

About my teaching

  • "Silvia is an amazing teacher. I was able to improve my English in an exceptional way - using books and topics that I’m interested in. And thanks to her I learned a lot not only about English, but also about writing, literature, traveling and many other things. She is very intelligent. I often left the class with new ideas. She is brilliant at explaining grammar in an easy way. I could finally understand the rules of tenses and see how simple they are, even though it was a mystery for me at school. I highly recommend her as a tutor."

    — Kristina

  • “Silvia helped me with a report which needed to be clear and concise in order to secure future funding, and was thus vital for my studies and career path. It has since been positively received by two senior academics, which I believe can be attributed to the smooth and fluent flow of the language. Silvia has significantly helped me in improving grammar, sentence and paragraph structure, as well as word choice. I am very grateful for her help."

    — Mayami

  • "Silvia has helped me with my creative writing, editing scripts and above all with my numerous public speaking events. She has been enormously professional, flexible and optimistic. I have learnt a lot without even knowing; we worked not only on vocabulary and fluency but also on context, register and collocations (not to mention prepositions). Silvia would also correct clunky or outdated English, her language feels very modern. I think her success is based on her relaxed approach combined with effective traditional methods."

    — Rafal