Our popular online writing retreat has returned. With brand-new content, and more expert-led workshops, writing surgeries, and space to hone your craft than before, our retreat is better than ever. And, this year, we’re giving you the opportunity to book a single week of the retreat or save by booking all three weeks for the price of two.
Week two summary
Crucially, you can follow this retreat at a pace that suits you. Our masterclasses, writing workouts, surgeries and salons are all recorded, which means you can watch and rewatch until the end of August
Date: Monday 31 July – Sunday 6 August 2023
Time: various, please refer to the schedule
Price: £199 (plus £7.80 booking fee), or £398 (plus £7.80 booking fee) for the full three-week retreat
Week two details
Monday 31 July
Writing workout workshop with Natasha Pulley, 8am-8.45am BST
Tuesday 1 August
Writing room, 10am-4pm BST
Masterclass: Picture perfect with Ross Raisin, 6pm-8pm BST A masterclass that will get to grips with how to create the world – of sights and smells, seasons and scenes – that your characters inhabit.
Wednesday 2 August
Ross Raisin’s writing surgery, 1pm-2pm BST
Tim Lott’s writers’ workshop, 6.30pm-8pm BST
Thursday 3 August
Writing room: Evening session, 7-9pm BST
Friday 4 August
Masterclass: Plot and narrative structure with Louise Doughty 3pm-4.30pm BST
Structuring your novel can sometimes seem like wrestling with an octopus. How do you put form on a story lasting hundreds of pages? What if your beginning is too slow or your middle too sludgy?
Saturday 5 August
Writing room, 10am-4pm BST
Sunday 6 August
Writing hour with Maame Blue, 11am-12pm BST
Writers’ salon, 6pm-6.45pm BST
Tutor profiles
Ross Raisin is the author of four novels: A Hunger (2022), A Natural (2017), Waterline (2011) and God’s Own Country (2008). Ross’ work has won and been shortlisted for over ten literary awards. In 2018 he was awarded a Fellowship by the Royal Society of Literature.
Louise Doughty
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Details
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