With details of competitions and more:
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Welcome to the November monthly writing news about all
that's been happening and is coming up at Retreat West!
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After running four
online festivals dedicated to flash fiction and the short story, we're
really excited to be hosting a 1-day novel writing one in 2023. We'll
be releasing info and ticket sales soon (unless you're a community member
in which case you can buy them already!) but we have a keynote from a
brilliant author who has had 4 successful books published in 2 years
and has just signed another 4 book deal, 3 workshops with author
tutors, and a panel Q&A with literary agents. Keep your eye on the
newsletter and website for more info! We'll also be running a 1-day
flash fest in the new year too.
With Christmas fast
approaching, if you're fed up of getting naff presents you can tell
your loved ones to buy you Retreat
West Gift Cards instead! They can be used to buy courses,
mentoring, critiques and memberships. They are also available in our Ko-Fi shop.
In January 2023, it
will have been 3 years since we launched our fab online community
and we have over 200 writers who have joined us to keep learning about
writing and make connections. We've taken the difficult decision to
increase membership costs from January for the first time since we
started. So our Community Collaborator membership will go up from £25
to £35 and the Editorial Enthusiast from £50 to £60. Any existing
members on those packages get to keep the original price but all new
members will join at the higher price from 9th January 2023. This is
still great value to get writing sessions, workshops, feedback and more
included!
Also, as we have
stopped running some of the competitions that are included with
membership packages, these will be updated to include submission to our
new journal, WestWord, instead. Submission will
open for the first time on 1st January and we are looking for micros,
flashes and short stories on the theme of VISION. Get submission info here.
With love from Amanda and Gaynor x
PS. If you would like to buy us a coffee to
say thanks for all we do to bring you great writing and submission
opportunities, we'd be very grateful as our costs just keep on
rising!
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Change to final Quarterly
Themed Flash comp
To celebrate the end of
an era at Retreat West, we have changed the final competition to an
open theme. This is your last chance to win this contest and get
published on the website as we're no longer running it after this
year!
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2023 First Chapter
Contest launched
The new details of this
ever popular novel contest are now live. Our judge is Rachel Mann,
a literary agent at the Jo Unwin Literary Agency (JULA)
in London. You have until January to get your novel openings polished
up!
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Lots of great stuff
coming up throughout the rest of the year for our Zoom workshops. They
are just £5 or some are included with our Community Membership,
which starts at just £25 for a year. You an also access recordings of some of our past events
if you missed them and want to catch up.
Coming up we have:
November
Sat 19th - 11.00
GMT
Rework - Spark Life into
Tired Drafts with Sarah M. Jasat
Sat 26th - 11.00
GMT
What is a Flash Moment?
with Anita Goveas
Weds 30th - 19.00
GMT (members only)
Authenticity and Voice in
Flash Fiction with Catherine McNamara
December
Sat 10th - 11.00
GMT
What's Your Story?
Uncover the Meaning Behind the Narrative with Amy Lord
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We have some great
courses to help you develop your craft, meet writing pals and get new
words on the page.
We now have four email
courses available on our Pay What You Can Afford model, all of them
starting at just £15.
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Telling Tales with the
Tao
There are now just 3 spaces left to
take part in a test course with Amanda. The course is going to be 10
weeks long and focused on writing longer short stories inspired by
different chapters of the Tao Te Ching.
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ONLY 3 SPACES LEFT!
The latest
version of Amanda's hugely popular flash fiction course starts on
Monday. Stories from previous courses have won/placed in
competitions and been widely published.
Starts: 14th
November
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NEW DATES RELEASED!
Amanda's
Mini Novel course is running again in 2023. This 6-week
online community course will help you get started with tools to
plan and plot your novel, get to know your characters and the
world they inhabit and start writing some chapters. Limited to 12
writers.
Starts: 6th
February
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SORRY THIS IS NOW SOLD OUT!
Join Amanda
for a series of Zoom workshops to take your flash fiction writing
to the next level.
Starts: 12th
Dec
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Trevissome Park Truro
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Monthly Micro Competition is now live!
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We take
December off so this is our final monthly micro competition of 2022 -
the more entries, the bigger the prize, so we hope lots of you will
have a go!
The
prompt this month is "shine" and you can interpret it in any
way that you wish. Good luck! We're excited to read your stories ...
Find all of the information you need about our
monthly micro competition at the link below 👇
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