Writing Retreat at Las Chimeneas, in southern Spain

8th – 15th September 2023

£1400 per person (or £1200 pp if sharing a room).

A week-long prose course/retreat run by Sam Harvey and Emma Hooper, for writers of novels, short stories and non-fiction.

The week will consist of morning small-group workshops (max. 8 people), afternoon craft sessions, one-to-one tutorials, evening Q&As and readings, and dedicated solitary writing time.

The fee includes all accommodation and food at the lovely Las Chimeneas in the Alpajarras mountains of southern Spain. It also includes your course tuition, and transfers to and from the airport in either Granada or Almeria.

This is the third time Sam and Emma have run this retreat (albeit previously at Villa Lugara in Italy); each time it’s been a brilliant mix of intense, focussed work and relaxing, informal eating, drinking, swimming, walking, talking with fellow writers in an extraordinary place. Las Chimeneas was numbered among the ten best mountain hideaways in Europe.

To book, or simply to chat about it if you need more information, please contact Emma and David Illsley at Las Chimeneas:  info@laschimeneas.com

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Course outline:

  • Mentored workshop every morning Monday to Thursday: A session in which students share and discuss each other’s work, led and directed by a tutor.*

  • Technique and Craft lecture Monday and Tuesday afternoons: A talk and/or workshop focusing on honing a particular aspect of writing.

  • Writing and walking workshop on Friday morning. (Gentle and suitable for all athletic abilities.)

  • One-to-one tutorials with Sam and Emma for each student on Wednesday and Thursday afternoons: A chance to get focused individual feedback on a piece of your work, as well as to address any specific questions or concerns you might have regarding your writing.

  • Informal friendly evening events (with wine!) including readings of your own work, and an “ask me anything” industry and career Q&A session with your tutors.

  • Plenty of writing time in between sessions.

  • Plenty of time outside of structured sessions to talk to the tutors (and of course other students) about all-things-writing.

* Students should have a minimum of around 8,000 words, in total, of a work (or works) in progress for workshopping and tutorial sessions.