Courses

This Tutored Poetry Retreat is designed for a limited number of writers to work intensively with a focus on individual sessions. Open to all serious about taking their poetry to the next level.

Summertime when the writin' is easy…..’  Be nurtured. Enjoy outstanding food, inspiring landscape and freedom from the daily grind. Spread your writing wings!

Whether you are just setting out or want to revitalise an existing project, this course will help you find inspiration and develop skills in fiction writing, whether short or long form.

Leave those domestic chores behind and escape to the peace and tranquillity of a Garsdale summer.  Indulge yourself with space and time to write in idyllic surroundings. Meet up with your muse…

Robert Frost said: “It begins in delight and ends in wisdom.” In this course we will delight in the variousness of the figures that poems make by exploring a wide variety of styles, forms, writing processes and techniques.

This course is suitable for writers arriving with a blank page as well as those bringing a project they have already started work on. Whether you are interested in writing a novel or a short story, this course is for you.

A look at different ways of telling a story in our poetry, exploring the use of images to create a narrative and how we can construct a narrative arc in poetry.

Treat yourself to the mists and mellow fruitfulness of Garsdale and give your writing a seasonal massage!

Whether you are a complete beginner or already have a body of work, this course will give you the tools and techniques to turn your life events into a narrative.

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