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In this course, we’ll be experimenting with time, thinking of poetry as a way of reaching memories of childhood, school and loved ones and thinking about the excitement of managing different time frames within a poem, ways of generating the whoosh that can happen when a poem jumps about in time.

Drawing on place and memory, this course will help you to find, voice and shape the story that compels you to write. Short-form or long, this could be memoir, nature, travel or another non-fiction focus awaiting illumination.

This tutored retreat is designed for writers to work intensively with a focus on individual sessions to help them develop their work. It includes one 90 minute group workshop and one 30 minute individual tutorial each day, Tuesday - Friday with a group introductory workshop on the Monday.

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.

Whether you’re new to poetry or have been writing for many years, this course aims to help you develop your skills within a safe and supportive environment. We will explore the craft and mystery of poetry, its many devices: image, metre, rhyme, lineation … and how an awareness of both traditional forms and free verse can influence the choices we make as a poem evolves.

This course is suitable for writers at any stage, whether just starting out, working on a novel or short stories or developing an idea. We‘ll look at key elements of novel writing: plot, structure, character, conflict, dialogue and setting. There will be writing exercises as well as the chance to share work in progress.

Memoir writing is the art of writing your own story in your own voice. Everyone’s life experiences are unique and deserve to be told. Join us to write your own story. Suitable for writers of any level of experience, or none.

This course is suitable for complete beginners as well as advanced poets, offering liberating opportunities and exciting ways into writing poetry. Generative workshops will begin with exploring and discussing poems which will then open out into participants’ own writing.