The Wild Words retreat for 2022 takes place in Puivert, the home village of the co-facilitators of this retreat
Thursday 17th until Tuesday 22nd September 2020: A retreat for writers/storytellers/poets…
Words and the Body Retreat- Finding flow and creativity in writing/spoken word and Chi Gung
A retreat for writers/storytellers/poets who wish to engage primarily with guided group activities. Morning movement practice, four hours a day of tuition, peer support group, evening talks, and 1-1 time with a tutor.
A retreat for writers/storytellers/poets who primarily wish to work on their own projects. Morning movement practice, one hour a day of inspirational tuition, peer support group, evening talks, and 1-1 time with a tutor.
Join Bridget for a week-long writing and storytelling escape in the wild Pyrenean mountains of the South of France with a group of like-minded people and on-hand tutor support. These relaxed immersive retreats are forays deep into nature and your imagination, set against a background of good food, sunny days, blazing camp fires under starlight nights and comfortable accommodation. Experience the thrill of a shared exploration of some truly wild places. Every level of experience. All writing genres, including spoken word.
http://www.wildwords.org/retreats/
7-9 September 2018, 3 days 2 nights.
Bromesberrow Estate, Bromesberrow, Ledbury, Gloucestershire HR8 1RZ
£277 per person (Includes tuition, workshops, spa, lunch & dinner with wine) See accommodation options below
Bridget Holding, founder of Wild Words, and Hetti Dysch, wilderness facilitator will offer a series of inspirational writing workshops and mindful nature meditations. Designed to unleash your wild creativity and develop key writing skills, this retreat will set you off on a path for completing your own projects.
Set in a stunning location, this retreat will also explore the psychological and traditional literary symbolism of ‘forest’ as a place of contemplation, creativity and transition.
There will be the opportunity to revitalise in Forest Spa’s eco wood-fired spruce sauna and hot tub, enjoy delicious rustic gourmet food and sleep in the forest with a range of simple but charming accommodation options.
Accommodation options (Includes breakfast)
£100 per person (2 nights): Pixie Gypsy Pod with 2 sharing in single beds, bedding included
£65 per person (2 nights): Glamping Dome with 6 sharing on comfy camp beds, bedding included
£35 per person to camp: BYO tent / bedding
Booking via: https://www.forestspa.co.uk/ info@forestspa.co.uk. 07850 401759
The writing process can sometimes feel overwhelming. In this course, through the writing of a short story or narrative poem, you’ll learn a system for chunking down any project into bite-size, do-able pieces.
You’ll choose your idea and start writing. You’ll be supported to negotiate moments of stuckness and block, to complete the first draft. Moving into the second draft we will consciously apply specific tools to bring passion and power into your story. These will include: emotion, sensory impressions, narrative structure, and dialogue. You’ll come away with a beautiful product, of publishable quality. You’ll feel satisfied and invigorated by the process.
Outline of the week:
Day 1: The natural storyteller. The5 key elements. The 3-act structure.
Day 2: Point of View. Setting up thewriting environment. From start to finish. How to write a first draft.Openings.
Day 3: The second draft stage.Sensory impressions. Body Sensations.
Day 4: Emotion. Power and passion.Hooking your reader/listener and keeping them.
Day 5: Movement and Rhythm. Endings.Readings.
Exercises in all keystorytelling/writing techniques, is underpinned by creative writing andpsychological theory.
This course is suitable for fledgling and experienced writers, and writers of all types of fiction and non-fiction. Please arrive at the first session with three ideas, each of 25 words or less, that could form the basis for a short story or narrative poem of up to 2000 words.
Booking via Uppingham Summer School
A step-by-step guide to surviving and thriving as a writer. Cultivate the key skills necessary to unleash passionate, powerful words. Then, learn how to harness them on the page without losing your sanity.
Bridget draws on her experiences as a psychotherapist and film-writer, and her work with writers through her company ‘Wild Words’.
She’s noticed that there’s a certain freedom from restraint, experienced by Swanwickers as they leave their normal lives for a week, which feeds into the discussion on what it means to write wild, rather than write tamed.
Being a writer is a dangerous job, but is there anything else in the world you’d rather be doing?
Booking via Swanwick Writers' Summer School
Join Bridget for a week-long writing and storytelling escape in the wild Pyrenean mountains of the South of France with a group of like-minded people and on-hand tutor support. These relaxed immersive retreats are forays deep into nature and your imagination, set against a background of good food, sunny days, blazing camp fires under starlight nights and comfortable accommodation. Experience the thrill of a shared exploration of some truly wild places. Every level of experience. All writing genres, including spoken word.
Le Presbytere, Bugarach, Aude, France.
a week-long writing escape in the wild Pyrenean mountains of the South of France with a group of like-minded people and on-hand tutor support.
These relaxed immersive retreats are forays deep into nature and your imagination, set against a background of good food, sunny days, blazing camp fires under starlight nights and comfortable accommodation. Experience the thrill of a shared exploration of some truly wild places.
Further information available here.
At Swanwick Writers' Summer School, Derbyshire, UK.
11.15am-12.15pm, and 2.15pm-3.15pm
Finding your voice is the gold at the end of the rainbow for emerging writers. It’s about much more than style and technique; it’s a journey that moves us from trying (consciously or unconsciously) to emulate others, to learning how to sound like our self.
Find our voice, and we open up a direct channel between the expression of the writer, and the effect on the reader. Voice not only underlies all creative work, but also informs our approach to publishers, agents, and marketing via social media.
During this course we’ll look at questions such as: What does it mean to write ‘authentically’? How can we sound like ourselves? (And for that matter who are we in the first place?) Be prepared to get philosophical and psychological!
Tickets available from Swanwick Writers' Summer School.
Uppingham School. Part of Uppingham Summer School.
The writing process can sometimes feel overwhelming. In this course, through the writing of a short story or narrative poem, you’ll learn a system for chunking down any project into bite-size, do-able pieces.
You’ll choose your idea and start writing. You’ll be supported to negotiate moments of stuckness and block, to complete the first draft. Moving into the second draft we will consciously apply specific tools to bring passion and power into your story. These will include: emotion, sensory impressions, narrative structure, and dialogue. You’ll come away with a beautiful product, of publishable quality. You’ll feel satisfied and invigorated by the process.
This course is suitable for fledgling and experienced writers, and writers of all types of fiction and non-fiction. Please arrive at the first session with three ideas, each of 25 words or less, that could form the basis for a short story or narrative poem of up to 2000 words.
Join Bridget for a week-long writing escape in the wild Pyrenean mountains of the South of France with a group of like-minded people and on-hand tutor support. These relaxed immersive retreats are forays deep into nature and your imagination, set against a background of good food, sunny days, blazing camp fires under starlight nights and comfortable accommodation. Experience the thrill of a shared exploration of some truly wild places.
The residential writing weeks are facilitated by Bridget and expert guest teachers.
Suitable for fledgling and experienced writers – learn skills and techniques to support all types of fiction, non-fiction and storytelling.
Further information available here.
A week-long writing escape in the wild Pyrenean mountains of the South of France.
These relaxed immersive retreats are forays deep into nature and your imagination, set against a background of good food, sunny days, blazing camp fires under starlight nights and comfortable accommodation. Experience the thrill of a shared exploration of some truly wild places.
The residential writing weeks are facilitated by Bridget and expert guest teachers.
Suitable for fledgling and experienced writers – learn skills and techniques to support all types of fiction, non-fiction and storytelling.
All the details are here.
The writing process can sometimes feel overwhelming. In this course, through the writing of a short story or narrative poem, you’ll learn a system for chunking down any project into bite-size, do-able pieces.
You’ll choose your idea and start writing. You’ll be supported to negotiate moments of stuckness and block, to complete the first draft. Moving into the second draft we will consciously apply specific tools to bring passion and power into your story. These will include: emotion, sensory impressions, narrative structure, and dialogue. You’ll come away with a beautiful product, of publishable quality. You’ll feel satisfied and invigorated by the process.
This course is suitable for fledgling and experienced writers, and writers of all types of fiction and non-fiction. Please arrive at the first session with three ideas, each of 25 words or less, that could form the basis for a short story or narrative poem of up to 2000 words.
Tickets available from: www.uppinghamsummerschool.co.uk
The writing process can sometimes feel overwhelming. Here, you’ll learn a system for chunking down any project into bite-size, do-able pieces. After all, you wouldn’t try and eat an elephant whole, would you?
Tickets available from: www.swanwickwritersschool.org.uk
A week-long writing escape in the wild Pyrenean mountains of the South of France
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