A novelist and a poet with a passion for creative writing and literature
Novelist Clara Challoner Walker and poet Janet Dean created Awakening the Writer Within in 2014, to share their passion for creative writing and literature with like-minded people.
Now, several years later, the virtual and face to face retreats, courses and workshops in Yorkshire and in South West France have received outstanding participant feedback, from both novice and established writers. As a result, Clara and Janet are delighted to be offering further workshops, courses and retreats in both locations throughout this year, including a new series of virtual workshops and online retreats which have proved very popular throughout lockdown and beyond.
We have recently compiled and published our first anthology including outstanding submissions from previous participants and members of the Awakening the Writer Within network. The anthology 'First Awakening' is available in our online store.
Clara
Novelist Clara Challoner Walker and poet Janet Dean created Awakening the Writer Within in 2014, to share their passion for creative writing and literature with like-minded people.
Now, several years later, the virtual and face to face retreats, courses and workshops in Yorkshire and in South West France have received outstanding participant feedback, from both novice and established writers. As a result, Clara and Janet are delighted to be offering further workshops, courses and retreats in both locations throughout this year, including a new series of virtual workshops and online retreats which have proved very popular throughout lockdown and beyond.
We have recently compiled and published our first anthology including outstanding submissions from previous participants and members of the Awakening the Writer Within network. The anthology 'First Awakening' is available in our online store.
Janet
Janet Dean’s poetry has most recently appeared in What The Moon Was Told (Dempsey and Windle), on the Write Where We Are Now website curated by Carol Ann Duffy, and is part of the Northern Poetry Library’s Poem of the North.
She has work published in The York Literary Review and in anthologies and magazines published by Valley Press, Paper Swans, Templar and Strix. She has been shortlisted in The Bridport Prize, highly commended in the York Children’s Poetry Competition and commended in the Poetry Society Stanza Competition, and the Charroux Literary Festival Poetry Competition.
As Janet Dean Knight her novel, The Peacemaker was longlisted in the Mslexia Novel Competition and she was shortlisted for the New Writing North Sid Chaplin Award in 2019 for her novel in progress.
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17th to 20th November 2023
Our residential retreats are ideal for those looking to start, develop or finish a writing project with inspiration, quiet and time, coupled with on-site support
All inclusive price from £295pp
*Two participants booking together, sharing room & private facilities
Residential writing retreat in glorious Bronte Country
Running November to February
Our half-day, virtual workshops offer the inspiration and opportunity for writing, stimulated by inspiring prompts, delivered throughout the.afternoon, Zoom calls for collaboration and interaction and an...
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