Courses/Retreats

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

'Departing summer hath assumed / An aspect tenderly illumed....'                  'Tenderly illume,' your writing with an autumnal excursion to the unfaded beauty of the Yorkshire Dales. Dedicate time and space to your writing, escape domestic chores and be nurtured by outstanding hospitality.

‘O hushed October morning mild, Thy leaves have ripened to the fall’ (October, Robert Frost) Share those ripened leaves in Garsdale’s autumnal beauty on an untutored retreat. Dedicate time and space to your writing, escape domestic chores and be nurtured by outstanding hospitality.

How poems have minds of their own and what we can do to discover their secrets. In this course, we’ll be exploring how we as poets can best serve the poems we write. It’s all-too easy to think we know what we want to say – but what if the poem has other ideas? In writing workshops, we’ll focus on trusting our poems and on learning how to be comfortable with the uncertainty that a new poem brings.

Treat yourself to the mists and mellow fruitfulness of Garsdale and give your writing a seasonal massage! Dedicate time and space to your writing, escape domestic chores and be nurtured by outstanding hospitality.

Now is the winter of your full content. Indulge yourself with log fires, outstanding food and the space to write, free from domestic chores.