Posts in Retreats

by LizH
September 3, 2024

La Rentrée & Swanwick 2024

It’s La Rentrée today here in France, the day when all children go back to school […]
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by LizH
December 31, 2019

The Old Year Wanes… 2019 Review

It’s normal at this time of year to look back at the dying year and feel […]
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by LizH
March 19, 2019

Embracing Wildness

What better way to prepare for tomorrow’s Spring Equinox and celebration of Ostara than by spending […]
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by LizH
September 23, 2017

10 Highlights of Swanwick 2017

Goodness! Swanwick seems like such a long time ago now. It’s crazy how just six weeks […]
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by LizH
September 11, 2017

Lizzie Borden Comes to Swanwick – Maggie Cobbett shares her fancy dress story from the 2017 school

Another stories from a fellow Swanwick alumnus. This week, it’s Maggie Cobbett’s turn, sharing with us […]
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by LizH
September 2, 2017

A Swanwick Story: Patricia M. Osborne

In 2015, two members on a writers’ forum, Corinne Lawrence and Shirley Cook, tried to convince […]
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by LizH
August 25, 2017

More Swanwick Memories: Jennifer Wilson

Continuing the theme of sharing stories from my favourite writing event of the year, I am […]
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by LizH
April 10, 2017

A Swanwick Story: Julia Pattison

Regular visitors to this blog will be familiar with my frequent mention of a place called […]
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by LizH
October 9, 2016

The Wild Writer Within Us All

So, here it is. A brief account of my final writing-related travel experience of 2016: I […]
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by LizH
August 17, 2016

Swanwick 2016 – The Magic Continues…

Sadly, I didn’t get to go to the Swanwick Writers’ Summer School in 2015. I had a […]
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