I’m so happy to be a guest reader on The Garsdale Retreat’s programme of creative writing courses for 2018. I will read from my work on the wonderful Hannah Vincent‘s residential course, ‘The Blank Page: Novel Writing for Beginners‘, in August next year.

The Garsdale Retreat, fresh opened this year, offers tutored courses and retreats in the Yorkshire Dales. It is, as poet Paul Deaton describes it , ‘a northern sanctuary for writers across the UK.’ Do check out their impressive 2018 programme, which offers fiction, memoir, poetry, playwriting and songwriting courses, tutored by writers such as Janice Galloway, Ian Duhig, Willy Russell, Jo Bell and many more…