Tutors 2024

Everyone has a book in them'. Do we? Perhaps it's true when we write from our own experience. Whether it's a single episode from your life to craft into an essay, or a whole family history that's itching at your writing hand, this course will help you find the extraordinary in the authentic.

This fiction writing course is suitable for writers of all levels and will be helpful whether you arrive at Garsdale with a blank page or with a project on which you have already started work.

We’ll consider the craft and mystery of poetry, along with the creative choices we make. This course welcomes both new and experienced poets who are keen to develop their work within a friendly, supportive environment.

Ever wanted to try writing poetry for children? Or maybe you already do and would like to share ideas, take part in exercises to spark new poems and polish up your poems in manuscript workshops. Everyone from beginners to experienced poets welcome on this stimulating course.

Poetry is invaluable for addressing the most important things in life: love, loss, joy, sadness, the family, the natural world. If there’s an important subject you just can’t find the way to write about, or even if you’re looking to discover new subjects, this course will give you a wide range of strategies to take all that beauty, humour and personality inside us and allow the reader to make it their own.