Transform your writing: Retreat, March 2025 (BOOKED OUT)

Fiction intensive: residential

Escape to a place where we focus on craft, creative practice, and mastery.

Welcome to our weekend writing retreat: Transform your writing.

This exclusive experience is focused on story development, practical approaches and techniques for fiction projects, and enhancing your mastery of the key tools in our writers’ toolbox.

The retreat is designed to support your growth as a writer, with information, advice and exercises you can use in your future work, ways to integrate your learning into your writing practice, and all as part of our community of writers.

It is fully residential in a delightful rural retreat, and features masterclasses with Dr Kelly Gardiner, author of Goddess and many other acclaimed books, and an experienced creative writing teacher and mentor.

What will it be like?

On this retreat, you’ll experience:

• Four writers’ masterclasses on different topics, such as voice and character
• Writing exercises you can use in future
• Shared and solo writing time
• Small group workshopping
• Discussion with your fellow writers
• Evening salon around the fire pit
• Handouts and resources
• Optional activities: a writing place guided walk in the bush, a morning yoga class.

It all happens in Continental House, a heritage guesthouse in beautiful Hepburn Springs, with locally-sourced meals from an award-winning caterer. We’ll have the run of the house and gorgeous gardens, set in the glorious bushland of spa country.

You can read all the details here: what it includes, who it’s for, what we’ll focus on and how.

You’ll also receive an invitation to our private online writing community to keep in touch with each other and stay up-to-date on writing and publishing opportunities.

On this retreat, you don’t have to think about anything but your writing, and making your work as good as it can be. We’ll take care of everything for you so you can focus on your writing, your learning, and creating a community of supportive writers.

Take this opportunity to turbo-charge your fiction project.

Ready to join us? Reserve your place now.

Details

Date & time: 5pm, Friday, 14 March to 4.30pm Sunday 16 March, 2025.

You can check into your room from 3pm on the Friday, with the welcome session before dinner. The retreat runs through to late afternoon Sunday.

Bookings are essential. Class size is limited: this is intentionally designed as a small-group experience to allow us to focus on you and your writing.

Payment plan

You can pay a deposit now to secure your place.

Deposit: $150.

Fee: $1155, including expert tuition, two nights’ accommodation, activities, refreshments and meals. See the full list here.

You can choose to either pay the full amount now or a deposit (with the balance due by 1 February 2025.)

Book with a friend or partner:

• If you wish to share a room with a friend or partner who is also attending, we can arrange that too, at a lower rate per person. Please contact me.

Closing date for bookings: 1 February 2025, unless booked out earlier.

Venue: Continental House, 9 Lone Pine Avenue, Hepburn Springs,
Victoria, Australia.

Read the outline of the weekend retreat here. Full details of the weekend’s program will be sent out closer to the date. You can read some FAQs here.

If you have any other questions, please get in touch. I’d love to hear from you.

Hope to see you there.