diff --git a/workspaces/frontend/src/app/context/useNotebookAPIState.tsx b/workspaces/frontend/src/app/context/useNotebookAPIState.tsx
index 983f918..6347618 100644
--- a/workspaces/frontend/src/app/context/useNotebookAPIState.tsx
+++ b/workspaces/frontend/src/app/context/useNotebookAPIState.tsx
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import React from 'react';
 import { APIState } from '~/shared/api/types';
 import { NotebookAPIs } from '~/app/types';
-import { getNamespaces, getWorkspaceKinds } from '~/shared/api/notebookService';
+import { getNamespaces, getWorkspaceKinds, createWorkspace } from '~/shared/api/notebookService';
 import useAPIState from '~/shared/api/useAPIState';
 
 export type NotebookAPIState = APIState<NotebookAPIs>;
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ const useNotebookAPIState = (
     (path: string) => ({
       getNamespaces: getNamespaces(path),
       getWorkspaceKinds: getWorkspaceKinds(path),
+      createWorkspace: createWorkspace(path),
     }),
     [],
   );
diff --git a/workspaces/frontend/src/app/hooks/useCreateWorkspace.ts b/workspaces/frontend/src/app/hooks/useCreateWorkspace.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0e2cfc1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/workspaces/frontend/src/app/hooks/useCreateWorkspace.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+import * as React from 'react';
+import useFetchState, {
+  FetchState,
+  FetchStateCallbackPromise,
+} from '~/shared/utilities/useFetchState';
+import { CreateWorkspaceData } from '~/app/types';
+import { useNotebookAPI } from '~/app/hooks/useNotebookAPI';
+import { Workspace } from '~/shared/types';
+import { createWorkspaceCall } from '~/app/pages/Workspaces/utils';
+import { APIOptions } from '~/shared/api/types';
+
+const useCreateWorkspace = (
+  namespace: string,
+  formData: CreateWorkspaceData,
+): FetchState<Workspace | null> => {
+  const { api, apiAvailable } = useNotebookAPI();
+
+  const call = React.useCallback<FetchStateCallbackPromise<Workspace | null>>(
+    (opts: APIOptions) => {
+      if (!apiAvailable) {
+        return Promise.reject(new Error('API not yet available'));
+      }
+      if (!namespace) {
+        return Promise.reject(new Error('namespace is not available yet'));
+      }
+      return createWorkspaceCall(opts, api, formData, namespace).then((result) => result.workspace);
+    },
+    [api, apiAvailable, namespace, formData],
+  );
+
+  return useFetchState(call, null);
+};
+
+export default useCreateWorkspace;
diff --git a/workspaces/frontend/src/app/pages/Workspaces/utils.ts b/workspaces/frontend/src/app/pages/Workspaces/utils.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a87fb3a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/workspaces/frontend/src/app/pages/Workspaces/utils.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+import { Workspace } from '~/shared/types';
+import { CreateWorkspaceData } from '~/app/types';
+import { NotebookAPIState } from '~/app/context/useNotebookAPIState';
+import { APIOptions } from '~/shared/api/types';
+
+export type RegisterWorkspaceCreatedResources = {
+  workspace: Workspace;
+};
+
+export const createWorkspaceCall = async (
+  opts: APIOptions,
+  api: NotebookAPIState['api'],
+  formData: CreateWorkspaceData,
+  namespace: string,
+): Promise<RegisterWorkspaceCreatedResources> => {
+  const workspace = await api.createWorkspace(opts, formData, namespace);
+  return { workspace };
+};
diff --git a/workspaces/frontend/src/app/types.ts b/workspaces/frontend/src/app/types.ts
index 26ba3e1..d3c0817 100644
--- a/workspaces/frontend/src/app/types.ts
+++ b/workspaces/frontend/src/app/types.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import { APIOptions } from '~/shared/api/types';
-import { WorkspaceKind } from '~/shared/types';
+import { Workspace, WorkspaceKind, WorkspacePodTemplateMutate } from '~/shared/types';
 
 export type ResponseBody<T> = {
   data: T;
@@ -67,7 +67,24 @@ export type GetNamespaces = (opts: APIOptions) => Promise<NamespacesList>;
 
 export type GetWorkspaceKinds = (opts: APIOptions) => Promise<WorkspaceKind[]>;
 
+export type CreateWorkspace = (
+  opts: APIOptions,
+  data: CreateWorkspaceData,
+  namespace: string,
+) => Promise<Workspace>;
+
 export type NotebookAPIs = {
   getNamespaces: GetNamespaces;
   getWorkspaceKinds: GetWorkspaceKinds;
+  createWorkspace: CreateWorkspace;
+};
+
+export type CreateWorkspaceData = {
+  data: {
+    name: string;
+    kind: string;
+    paused: boolean;
+    deferUpdates: boolean;
+    podTemplate: WorkspacePodTemplateMutate;
+  };
 };
diff --git a/workspaces/frontend/src/shared/api/notebookService.ts b/workspaces/frontend/src/shared/api/notebookService.ts
index e676c22..8101736 100644
--- a/workspaces/frontend/src/shared/api/notebookService.ts
+++ b/workspaces/frontend/src/shared/api/notebookService.ts
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-import { NamespacesList } from '~/app/types';
-import { isNotebookResponse, restGET } from '~/shared/api/apiUtils';
+import { NamespacesList, CreateWorkspaceData } from '~/app/types';
+import { isNotebookResponse, restGET, restCREATE } from '~/shared/api/apiUtils';
 import { APIOptions } from '~/shared/api/types';
 import { handleRestFailures } from '~/shared/api/errorUtils';
-import { WorkspaceKind } from '~/shared/types';
+import { Workspace, WorkspaceKind } from '~/shared/types';
 
 export const getNamespaces =
   (hostPath: string) =>
@@ -23,3 +23,15 @@ export const getWorkspaceKinds =
       }
       throw new Error('Invalid response format');
     });
+
+export const createWorkspace =
+  (hostPath: string) =>
+  (opts: APIOptions, data: CreateWorkspaceData, namespace = ''): Promise<Workspace> =>
+    handleRestFailures(restCREATE(hostPath, `/workspaces/${namespace}`, data, opts)).then(
+      (response) => {
+        if (isNotebookResponse<Workspace>(response)) {
+          return response.data;
+        }
+        throw new Error('Invalid response format');
+      },
+    );
diff --git a/workspaces/frontend/src/shared/types.ts b/workspaces/frontend/src/shared/types.ts
index 8adc53a..7fdf8ab 100644
--- a/workspaces/frontend/src/shared/types.ts
+++ b/workspaces/frontend/src/shared/types.ts
@@ -93,6 +93,33 @@ export interface WorkspaceStatus {
   stateMessage: string;
 }
 
+export interface WorkspacePodMetadataMutate {
+  labels: Record<string, string>;
+  annotations: Record<string, string>;
+}
+
+export interface WorkspacePodVolumeMount {
+  pvcName: string;
+  mountPath: string;
+  readOnly?: boolean;
+}
+
+export interface WorkspacePodVolumesMutate {
+  home?: string;
+  data: WorkspacePodVolumeMount[];
+}
+
+export interface WorkspacePodTemplateOptionsMutate {
+  imageConfig: string;
+  podConfig: string;
+}
+
+export interface WorkspacePodTemplateMutate {
+  podMetadata: WorkspacePodMetadataMutate;
+  volumes: WorkspacePodVolumesMutate;
+  options: WorkspacePodTemplateOptionsMutate;
+}
+
 export interface Workspace {
   name: string;
   namespace: string;