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Fiction: Developing Your Writing 2026
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.
Memoir: Write Your Own Story 2026 – FULLY BOOKED email for waiting list
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.
Memoir/Life Writing: That Book in You 2026 – FULLY BOOKED – email for waiting list
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.
Poetry: Writing Poetry 2026
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.
Tutored Fiction Retreat: Novel Writing 2026- FULLY BOOKED – email for waiting list
Novelists, memoirists, short story writers – do you need time, space and encouragement to move your manuscript forward?
This retreat is for prose writers who want guidance and motivation to help their work-in-progress achieve its potential.
Tutored Poetry Retreat: Developing Your Poetry 2026 – FULLY BOOKED – email for waiting list
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.
Tutored Poetry Retreat: The Next Leap Forward 2026 – ONLY ONE PLACE LEFT!
This tutored retreat is designed for writers to work intensively with a focus on individual sessions to help them develop their work.
Each participant will have a 30 minute individual tutorial each day, Tuesday – Friday and there will be an introductory 60 minute group workshop on the Monday.