This non-residential writing retreat will explore writing about place in poetry and creative non-fiction. Place writing brings the setting to the foreground, often figuring place as the foremost subject. It is an exciting subgenre of writing that includes ecopoetry, nature writing, psychogeography, travel and an attentiveness to surroundings that responds to the shifting meanings of places and landscapes.

Working in the pavilion studio located in the stunning walled garden at Museum in the Park, we will spend our mornings workshopping writing and the afternoons will be dedicated to 1 to 1 meetings and quiet writing and reading time. During workshops you’ll explore a wide range of writing about places real and imagined, with a focus on developing your own writing through lots of playful and powerful prompts and exercises. With plenty of time for discussion, questions and group work there will also be the opportunity to get individual feedback from each of your tutors.

The week will culminate with Dialect’s Summer Social and an evening of readings to an audience in the pavilion at Museum in the Park.

This retreat will be tutored by Philip Rush and JLM Morton. Writer Madeline Bunting will also be joining us one morning to talk about her writing about place.

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