2025 Courses, Tutored and Untutored Retreats at The Garsdale Retreat Are Open for Bookings
The Garsdale Retreat is a creative writing centre in the remote and beautiful setting of The Yorkshire Dales. We have a wonderfully inspiring line-up of tutors and guest readers for 2025 as well as nine untutored retreats.
All are fully catered with delicious and nutritious food leaving you free to focus on your writing and re-ignite your creative self.
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Poetry
24 - 29 March Jonathan Edwards (Imtiaz Dharker - guest)
2 - 7 June Paul Henry (Maura Dooley - guest)
30 June - 5 July Mimi Khalvati (Seni Seneviratne - guest)
15 - 20 September Steve Ely (Jane Kite - guest)
13 -18 October Philip Gross (Ann Pilling - guest)
10 - 15 November Katharine Towers (John Glenday - guest)
Fiction Writing
28 April - 3 May Hannah Vincent (Joanna Quinn - Guest)
14 - 19 July Zoë Strachan (Louise Welsh - guest)
Memoir/Life Writing
7 - 12 April Linda Cracknell (Alan Johnson - guest)
1 - 6 September Catherine Simpson (Sam Miller - guest)
Untutored Retreats
24 February - 1 March 29 September - 4 October
10 - 15 March 27 October - 1 November
12 - 17 May 24 - 29 November
16 - 21 June 8 - 13 December
18 - 23 August