CHESHIRE
COUNTY DURHAM
CUMBRIA
DERBYSHIRE
DEVON
GLOUCESTERSHIRE
HAMPSHIRE
ISLE OF WIGHT
HEREFORDSHIRE
LANCASHIRE
NORTHUMBERLAND
OXFORDSHIRE
SCOTLAND
SHROPSHIRE
CHESHIRE
Burton Manor
www.burtonmanor.com
A variety of residential creative writing courses all year.
Other Burton Manor holidays
Art, crafts, bridge, music.
COUNTY DURHAM
NAWG Festival
www.nawg.co.uk
Enjoy a magnificent writing break - held every year at the end of August/beginning September at the University of Durham. Come to workshops, dine with new writing friends. Enjoy the Festival and stay in beautiful, historic Durham.
CUMBRIA
Ways With Words
www.wayswithwords.co.uk
Tel: 01803 867373
Contact address for all venues: Ways With Words, Droridge Farm, Dartington, Totnes, Devon TQ9 6JG
Writing holidays in Cumbria, Devon, Suffolk - also France and Italy.
DERBYSHIRE
Lois Maddox
www.malagaworkshops.co.uk
Lois Maddox offers weekends in Derbyshire (as well as holidays in Gloucestershire and Malaga).
Other holidays offered by Lois
Family history and photography.
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The Writers' Summer School
www.wss.org.uk
Email: fionamcfadzean@hotmail.com
Tel: 01292 442786
Contact address for The Secretary (please enclose an A5 SAE):
Fiona McFadzean, 40 Pemberton Valley, Ayr KA7 4UB
A summer school has been held every August since 1949 at the Hayes Conference Centre in Swanwick, Derbyshire. The building was originally a gentleman's country residence in the 1860s.
DEVON
Arvon Foundation
www.arvonfoundation.org
Email: totleighbarton@arvonfoundation.org
Tel: 01409 231 338
Contact address:
The Arvon Foundation, Sheepwash, Beaworthy, Devon EX21 5NS
A variety of courses at four Arvon centres: Devon, Shropshire, Yorkshire and Scotland.
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Deborah Dooley
www.deborahdooleyjournalist.co.uk/retreat.html
Journalist Deborah Dooley runs a retreat deep in the heart of the beautiful north Devon countryside, nestling in a tranquil village.
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Ways With Words
www.wayswithwords.co.uk
Tel: 01803 867373
Contact address for all venues: Ways With Words, Droridge Farm, Dartington, Totnes, Devon TQ9 6JG
Writing holidays in Devon, Cumbria, Suffolk - also France and Italy.
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Euroscript
www.euroscript.co.uk
Euroscript runs a busy programme all year. 2010 includes a comedy writing weekend in Plymouth.
Tel: 07958 244656
Euroscript Ltd
64 Hemingford Rd
London N1 1DB
GLOUCESTERSHIRE
Hawkwood College
www.hawkwoodcollege.co.uk
Tel: 01453 759034
Hawkwood College
Painswick Old Rd
Stroud
Glos GL6 7QW
A residential centre of learning in the Cotswolds. The attractive 19th century house is surrounded by its own extensive grounds, including gardens, pastures and woodland. Situated at the head of a Cotswold valley, with panoramic views down the Severn Vale, it provides a beautiful, peaceful setting that is conducive to learning. An integral part of the Hawkwood mission is to bring people together from many backgrounds and beliefs to see that the founding anthroposophical impulse is engaged in fruitful dialogue with other streams of social, artistic and spiritual education. The college works with ecological and sustainable land management practices using organic and biodynamic methods. Many courses all year round including poet Jay Ramsay's Green Days of the Dancing Stillness.
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Gloucestershire Holiday with Lois Maddox of Malaga Workshops
www.malagaworkshops.co.uk
Tel: 01454 773579
The Secretary
Malaga Workshops
9D Langthorn Close
Rampton
Cotterrell
Bristol BS36 2JH
Lois offers weekend courses in Yate, Gloucestershire, or other UK locations as well as her Malaga workshops.
Other holidays with Lois
Family history, photography.
HAMPSHIRE
Annual Writers' Confference
www.writersconference.co.uk
Tel: 01962 827238
Barbara Large - Founder/Director
Research and Knowledge Exchange Centre
University of Winchester
West Hill
Winchester
Hants SO22 4NR
Held every June and July. Stay in beautiful Winchester and meet other writers.
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Write Here in the Forest
www.writehereintheforest.co.uk
Tel: 01425 672208
Trac Willoughby invites you to come and write in the tranquility of England's spectacular New Forest.
HEREFORDSHIRE
28.2.10 - I should receive details soon of three day breaks in a beautiful north Herefordshire farmhouse.
ISLE OF WIGHT
Learn Writing
www.learnwriting.co.uk
Felicity Fair Thompson has a Masters degree in screenwriting and offers writing and screenwriting holidays throughout the year on the heavenly Isle of Wight!
LANCASHIRE
Lancaster University Summer School
http://summerprogramme.lancs.ac.uk/index.html
Come to the longest running summer school of its kind in the world. Fill your day with courses and social events, creative writing and many other subjects. A lovely campus set in beautiful countryside.
Tel: 01524 592623
Department of Continuing Education
Lancaster University
Ash House
Lancaster LA1 4YT
NORTHUMBERLAND
Highgreen Arts
www.highgreen-arts.co.uk
A variety of residential arts courses are held here including a poetry writing course. Highgreen Manor is a Grade 2 listed building built in 1894 set in over 5,000 acres of stunning moorland.
Tel: 020 7602 1363
Contact address for enquiries/bookings:
William and Cynthia Morrison-Bell
20 Batoum Gardens
London W6 7QD
OXFORDSHIRE
Oxford University Creative Writing Summer School
www.conted.ox.ac.uk
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here for full details of their 2010 summer school.
SCOTLAND
Arvon Foundation
www.arvonfoundation.org
A variety of courses at four Arvon centres: Scotland, Devon, Shropshire, and Yorkshire.
Email: moniackmhor@arvonfoudation.org
Tel: 01463 741 675
Contact address:
The Arvon Foundation, Teavarran, Kiltarlity, Beauly, Inverness-shire IV4 7HT
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Writing Weeks at Glencanisp Lodge
Website: www.topleftcorner.org
Organiser: Mandy Haggith
Email: hag@worldforests.org
Phone: +44 (0)1571 844020
Mobile: +44 (0)7734 235704
Address: Top Left Corner, 95 Achmelvich, Lochinver, Sutherland, IV27 4JB, Scotland
For a week of writing inspiration come for a week at Glencanisp Lodge in the north-west Highlands of Scotland. There are no qualifications required and no compulsory activities, just an opportunity for writers or other creative people to develop their work in progress in a peaceful and stunningly beautiful environment.
Previous visitors have said: ‘I had a wonderful time, thank you so much. I feel refreshed and inspired…’, ‘I adored the peace and quiet, the scenery, the food and the company…’, ‘The best writing retreat in Western Europe…’, ‘What did I write? One new poem every day…’, ‘It was great. Being here allowed me to have insights into how to progress my novel…’, ‘Distance from my normal existence has produced work that I’m proud of, encapsulating some of the magic of this place…’, ‘A lovely house overlooking the most wonderful views…’.
Six weeks are available from 2010 to 2011:
• 26 June – 3 July 2010
• 11 – 18 September 2010
• 30 October – 6 November 2010
• 6 – 13 November 2010
• 8-15 January 2011
• 26 March – 2 April 2011
Any writers or other creative people are welcome on the weeks, which cost £480 per person (June, September) or £420 (October, November, January, March). The weeks run from Saturday to Saturday. Everyone gets a private and comfortable room to themselves, many of which have spectacular views out to the iconic mountain of Suilven or into the mature woods around the Lodge. Delicious home-cooked food is included.
A facilitator is on hand to give feedback or writing advice if desired.
To reserve a place on a retreat please send a deposit of £200, cheque made out to 'Top Left Corner'.
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Craufurdland Castle
http://craufurdlandcastle.co.uk/
N.B. Venue only There are no inclusive creative writing holidays here but the Editor of this website has included it
because the owner says, "we are a small castle in the Ayrshire countryside and have room for up to 16-18 people. We can provide conference areas and meals as well as a good Scottish atmosphere to inspire creativity."
SHROPSHIRE
Arvon Foundation
www.arvonfoundation.org
A variety of courses at four Arvon centres: Shropshire, Scotland, Devon and Yorkshire.
Email: thehurst@arvonoundation.org
Tel: 01588 640658
Contact address:
The John Osborne Arvon Centre, Clunton, Craven Arms, Shropshire SY7 0JA
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