About This Event
Itinerary
Accommodation
PRIZE WINNING FICTION
WITH MONIQUE ROFFEY & ANNA WHARTON
21st / 22nd September 2023 Number of places: 8
Costa prize winning novelist, Monique Roffey, will be joining us for one of two writing retreats in our Autumn schedule. Trinidadian-British writer, Monique is an acclaimed writer of six novels and a memoirist. Her book The Mermaid of Black Conch won Costa Book of the Year in 2020, and was shortlisted for three other awards: the Rathbones Folio Award 2021, the Goldsmiths Prize 2020, and the Republic of Consciousness Prize 2021. She is also a professor at Manchester Metropolitan University where she teaches on the Novel MA and MFA. In 2019, Monique also co-founded Writers Rebel, a campaigning group inside Extinction Rebellion.
Come and join us for a writing retreat exploring both fiction and non-fiction which will answer the question of how to weave the issues you care about into your work in progress, how to contain your ideas in a fictional landscape, and how to write novels that matter.
Itinerary
Thursday 21st September
Midday – Arrival, welcome drinks and lunch
1pm – Solo writing time, plus one on one time with Book Room tutor Anna Wharton
4pm – Guest author performs readings of their work, followed by Q and A
6pm – Short Workshop/writing exercise hosted by our guest author
7.30pm – Dinner attended by our guest author
Friday 22nd September
7.30am Literary trail walk (optional)
8am – Breakfast is served
9am – Solo writing in the house, cabin or outside in the woods
11am – Workshop with Anna Wharton discussing literary techniques within the novels from our guest author’s, reading list
1pm– Lunch followed by goodbyes
Accommodation & Pricing
We have eight spaces at the writing retreat, with four guests in the main house, and four at Gaston’s farm in our village (just a minute down the road; transport to and from The Rook will be provided).
Private bedrooms available for each guest, with double or King size beds priced according to size. All prices include accomodation, all meals, drinks, workshops and transfers.
Balcony Room (king + private ensuite) £550
The Study (double + shared bathroom) £500
Strawberry’s patch (double + shared bathroom) £500
Master Suite (king + private ensuite) £600
Gaston’s Master (king + shared bathroom) £500
Lyon’s Den (double + shared bathroom) £500
Gaston’s Milkshed (king + private bathroom) £550
Twin rooms also available upon request.
To book your place or for more information, email us on events@therookretreat.co.uk
Prize Winning Fiction
WITH MONIQUE ROFFEY & ANNA WHARTON
21st / 22nd September 2023
Number of places: 8
Costa prize winning novelist, Monique Roffey, will be joining us for one of two writing retreats in our Autumn schedule. Trinidadian-British writer, Monique is an acclaimed writer of six novels and a memoirist. Her book The Mermaid of Black Conch won Costa Book of the Year in 2020, and was shortlisted for three other awards: the Rathbones Folio Award 2021, the Goldsmiths Prize 2020, and the Republic of Consciousness Prize 2021. She is also a professor at Manchester Metropolitan University where she teaches on the Novel MA and MFA. In 2019, Monique also co-founded Writers Rebel, a campaigning group inside Extinction Rebellion.
Come and join us for a writing retreat exploring both fiction and non-fiction which will answer the question of how to weave the issues you care about into your work in progress, how to contain your ideas in a fictional landscape, and how to write novels that matter.
Itinerary
Thursday 21st September
Midday – Arrival, welcome drinks and lunch
1pm – Solo writing time, plus one on one time with Book Room tutor Anna Wharton
4pm – Guest author performs readings of their work, followed by Q and A
6pm – Short Workshop/writing exercise hosted by our guest author
7.30pm – Dinner attended by our guest author
Friday 22nd September
7.30am Literary trail walk (optional)
8am – Breakfast is served
9am – Solo writing in the house, cabin or outside in the woods
11am – Workshop with Anna Wharton discussing literary techniques within the novels from our guest author’s, reading list
1pm– Lunch followed by goodbyes
Accommodation & Pricing
We have eight spaces at the writing retreat, with four guests in the main house, and four at Gaston’s farm in our village (just a minute down the road; transport to and from The Rook will be provided).
Private bedrooms available for each guest, with double or King size beds priced according to size. All prices include accomodation, all meals, drinks, workshops and transfers.
Balcony Room (king + private ensuite) £550
The Study (double + shared bathroom) £500
Strawberry’s patch (double + shared bathroom) £500
Master Suite (king + private ensuite) £600
Gaston’s Master (king + shared bathroom) £500
Lyon’s Den (double + shared bathroom) £500
Gaston’s Milkshed (king + private bathroom) £550
Twin rooms also available upon request.
To book your place or for more information, email us on events@therookretreat.co.uk
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