Tutored courses start on a Monday evening with a welcome talk from staff at 6.30pm who will then join you for a meal. Your two tutors will lead an introductory session after dinner. Tutored Courses usually include workshops each morning from one or both of your tutors. A buffet lunch is provided at 1pm. Afternoons provide time free to write or explore the surroundings, as well as a 30-minute one-to-one tutorial with each tutor during the week.
Evenings are often spent in the company of your group. Tutors will read from their own work on a Tuesday, and lead a sharing of your work at an informal ceilidh on Friday. A guest author usually joins you on Wednesday for dinner, followed by a reading from their work and a Q&A session.
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Coming Up
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2606 Songwriting: with Kathryn Williams and Louis Abbott, Guest Reader Polly Paulusma
Mon 2nd Feb - Sat 7th Feb
Finding and sharing your voice in song. Have you always wanted to write a song? Do you want time for writing more songs? Do you want to stretch out of your usual creative practice? Songwriting can be the conective way we reach out to others and also make sense of our own feelings .
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2619 Neurodivergent Writing: with Kate Fox and Joanne Limburg, Guest Reader Elspeth Wilson
Mon 4th May - Sat 9th May
Join Joanne Limburg and Kate Fox in exploring how neurodiversity can be found in literary forms from poetry to fiction and creative non-fiction – and look at how neurodivergent writers of all levels of life experience can play with, challenge or find a sense of home within these forms.
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2620 Climate: with Anna Selby and Hannah Lowe, Guest Reader TBC
Mon 11th May - Sat 16th May
In this course, we’ll draw on diverse examples from environmental and activist poetry, eco-memoir, climate fiction and multi-species storytelling to generate new and exciting work.
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2623 Crime: with Caro Ramsay and Michael J Malone, Guest Reader Kate Lyall Grant
Mon 1st Jun - Sat 6th Jun
This course, with Michael J Malone and Caro Ramsay, offers an opportunity to craft compelling crime fiction. An immersive course to take you from blank page to polishing the final draft with entertaining workshops on the nuts and bolts for creating chilling villains, twisty plots and perfect prose.
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2624 Short Fiction: with Irenosen Okojie and Leone Ross, Guest Reader Tessa Hadley
Mon 8th Jun - Sat 13th Jun
This week will be a deep dive into a continuum of approaches for short stories, from the plotted to the subversive, from the serious to the mischievous. For writers who have already tried the form and now want their short stories to be even better.
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2628 Playwriting: with Simon Stephens and Eve Leigh, Guest Reader Omar Elerian
Mon 6th Jul - Sat 11th Jul
An active interrogation of the mechanics of playwriting, this course will creatively examine the use of dramatic action, character, location, narrative and structure in the making of a play. This course is useful both for playwrights at the beginning of their career and for writers who have written one or two plays and are looking to develop their craft.
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2629 Lifewriting: with Karen McLeod and Jarred McGinnis, Guest Reader Jackie Kay
Mon 13th Jul - Sat 18th Jul
Can fiction writers learn from memoir? And when using autobiographical material, where and how do you create the friction needed to make compelling stories? Whether you’re writing a memoir dressed as a novel, lightly taking from lived experience for a novel, or experimenting with shorter fiction, this course will help develop your writing.
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2630 Poetry: with Kim Moore and Clare Shaw, Guest Reader tbc
Mon 20th Jul - Sat 25th Jul
Fully Booked
Join award winning poets Kim Moore and Clare Shaw for an immersive poetry residential. Through workshops, readings and shared reflection, we’ll explore poetry as a powerful act of noticing – of bearing witness to the world around us and within us.
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