OCTOBER WRITERS RETREAT BRANTWOOD, CONISTON WITH GERALDINE GREEN AND PIPPA LITTLE 19th-22nd OCTOBER 2015

WRITERS' RETREAT Brantwood, Coniston, Cumbria 

with Geraldine Green and Pippa Little

Monday19^th October - Thursday 22^nd October 2015 (2pm – 2pm).

A chance to write, read, share poems, let the beautiful house and grounds inspire you. All very welcome. £230 p.p., please contact Rachel Litten at enquiries@brantwood.org.uk or ring 015394 41396.

Brantwood, Coniston, Cumbria, home of John Ruskin is the perfect place whether you have a writing project you’re working on or just need time and space away from the busyness of life to step back and gain some inspiration and quietly reflect.  

The tranquil grounds and gardens of Brantwood, stunning views across Coniston Water to the Old Man and Dow Crag, log fires, wonderful food all provide the ideal writers retreat. There will be time for solitude and also the company and conversation of other writers.

Co-tutor Pippa Little will give a reading with Geraldine on Tuesday evening. You’re all welcome to share a poem or two, as well on Wednesday evening when the Group give a reading to the tutors.

Mentoring - The Retreat also gives you an opportunity for one-to-one mentoring with Pippa Little and Geraldine Green, plus informal discussions with Pippa and Geraldine.

Cost:

£230 per person

Includes refreshments, plus evening meals on 19^th, 20^th and 21^st  and lunch on 20^th, 21^st and 22^nd. Residential or non-residential options available

Residential option:

The Lodge at Brantwood has been newly refurbished to provide accommodation for those attending our courses. It sleeps up to 9 people in 2 double rooms, 2 twin rooms and a single room, located on the ground and upper floors, with a shared kitchen/diner and living room, 1 bathroom, 2 shower rooms and a separate toilet. The Lodge enjoys wonderful views across Coniston Water to the fells. A self-service breakfast is provided in the Lodge as part of the rate.

£50 per person per night, single occupancy

£35 per person per night, shared occupancy

Pre-booking is essential. Tel: 015394 41396

Email: enquiries@brantwood.org.uk

http://www.brantwood.org.uk

information on the writers can be found here:

Geraldine

Pippa

Some sessions take place outdoors - please bring suitable footwear and clothing

AUTUMN WRITERS’ RETREAT 19^TH-22^ND OCTOBER 2015 BRANTWOOD CONISTON WITH GERALDINE GREEN AND PIPPA LITTLE

COURSE OUTLINE:

Monday 19th October

1pm - Gather at The Lodge for refreshments, Geraldine, Pippa and Rachel will be there to meet you and show you your rooms

1.45pm - Meet in The Schoolroom in the Main House where writing workshops will take place

2pm - Welcome and Introduction with Pippa and Geraldine

2pm - 3pm - Share anything you may have brought with you that you're currently working on, or perhaps a piece of writing, by another writer that has inspired you, that you like. Say briefly why you like it.

3pm-3.15pm - Break

3pm-4pm Free time for short wander round House, Gardens or Exhibition writing prompts given by Pippa (optional)

4pm-5pm – Free writing time

5pm-7pm - Free time, followed by evening meal in The Stables Café

Tuesday 20th October

9.30am - 11am - writing exercises in The Schoolroom with Geraldine

11am-11.15am - Break

11.15am -12.30 - writing exercises in The Schoolroom with Pippa

12.30-1.30pm – Lunch in The Stables Café

1.30-3.15pm - Outdoor Reflective Walk, writing prompts given by Geraldine (optional)

3.15pm-6.30pm - Free Time

6.30pm - Evening Meal in The Lodge followed by reading by Pippa and Geraldine

Wednesday 21st October

9.30am-11am - writing exercises with Pippa

11am-11.15am - Break

11.15am-12.30pm – writing exercises with Geraldine

12.30pm-1.30 pm - Lunch

1.30pm-6.30pm - Free Writing and Reflective time

2pm-3.30pm - One to one tutorials with Geraldine and Pippa (optional), 15 minutes slots: Geraldine 2pm-2.45pm

Pippa 2.45pm-3.30pm

6.30pm - Evening meal in The Lodge followed by Group reading (5-10 minutes each)

Thursday 22nd October

10am-11.30am - One to one tutorials with Pippa and Geraldine (optional), 15 minute slots: Pippa 10am-10.45am; Geraldine 10.45am-11.30am

11.30am-11.45am - Break

11.45am-12.30pm - Group readback and feedback and complete Feedback Forms.

12.30pm-2pm Lunch in The Stables Café and depart

Poetry Readings, Workshops and Residential Courses August 2015-October 2016

Poetry Readings, residential Courses and Workshops with Geraldine Green, Writer-in-Residence, Brantwood Coniston, former home of John Ruskin

http://www.brantwood.org.uk/event/writer-in-residence/

August 27th Mungrisdale Writers - Creative Writing Workshop, Mungrisdale Village Hall
10.30am-1.30pm Mungrisdale Writers

September 5th - Write in the Forest, third in the series of four creative writing workshops exploring what forests mean to us Write in the Forest, Grizedale Forest, Cumbria, UK

Please email Geraldine Green

September 18th-22nd Friday-Tuesday - Walking Home - Residential Writing Course on Jane's farm, a working upland farm near Kirkby Lonsdale - 2pm-2pm

'Location is where we start from'-  Maxine Kumin 

Through a series of writing prompts and a variety of stimuli, new writing will be created exploring the theme: home, place and displacement

Course Fee £300 per person

Accommodation at Jane's farm, or BandB's close by, is extra.

Please 'phone Jane 015395-67277 for accommodation details on her farm, or visit Trip Advisor for accommodation in and around Kirkby Lonsdale

Please email me for more details/course bookings

geraldinegreen[dot]poetry[1][at]gmail[dot]com

September 24th-December 3rd - Writing the Land, Dallam Community College Heversham Adult Ed. Course, Thursdays, bookings through Dallam

September 26th: Write on the Farm 10.30am-4.30pm cost: £35 incl refreshments, please bring own lunch. As part of the afternoon session takes place outdoors, please bring/wear suitable footwear and clothing. Write on the Farm

Please email me for more details/course bookings

geraldinegreen[dot]poetry[1][at]gmail[dot]com

Write on the Farm dates for Autumn 2015, Spring/Summer 2016:

Saturday
2015
September 26th
October 24th
November 21st

2016
February 20th
March 19th
April 23rd
May 21st
June 18th

the Road Home, near Jane's Farm

Brantwood Jetty Coniston

October 1st, 8th and 15th - Writing the Land Adult Ed. Dallam Community College Heveraham

October 19th-22nd (Monday - Thursday) Brantwood Coniston with Geraldine Green and Pippa Little Please contact Rachel Litten at Brantwood for cost of course, accommodation and bookings.

October 24th: Write on the Farm 10.30am-4.30pm cost: £35 incl refreshments, please bring own lunch. As part of the afternoon session takes place outdoors, please bring/wear suitable footwear and clothing. Write on the Farm

Please email me for more details/course bookings

geraldinegreen[dot]poetry[1][at]gmail[dot]com

November 5th, 12th and 26th - Writing the Land Adult Ed. Dallam Community College Heversham

November 7th - Write in the Forest, third in the series of four creative writing workshops exploring what forests mean to us Write in the Forest, Grizedale Forest, Cumbria, UK

Please email Geraldine Green

November 19th Poetry Workshop for Carte Blanche Writers Newcastle, please contact Pippa Little

November 21st Write on the Farm Jane's Farm, Near Kirkby Lonsdale Cumbria

December 3rd Writing the Land, Adult Ed. Dallam Community College Heversham

Blencathra and Derwentwater from Catbells Winter 2009

2016

January 15th: Poetry Reading Dale Lodge Grasmere Cumbria, host Deborah Hobbs, reading w/Josephine Dickinson Richard Skinner Deborah Hobbs Kim Moore and others

May 7th: Creative Writing Workshop at Eycott Hill, with Cumbria Wildlife Trust, 10am-4pm, please bring packed lunch and hot drinks and wear suitable footwear and clothing as most of the workshop will be spent at Eycott Reserve. Please also bring with you a notebook pen/pencils.

Bookings through: 

Jody Ferguson

Eycott Hill Communications and Events Officer
Supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund

Cumbria Wildlife Trust

Gosling Sike Farm

Houghton Road

Houghton

Carlisle, CA3 0LD

DD: 01228 829578

http://www.cumbriawildlifetrust.org.uk/eycott-hill

May 28th: Brewery Poets at the Brewery Art Gallery, Kendal, Geraldine Green and Josephine Dickinson mc Ann Wilson - open mic, come early!

June 24th-26th: (Friday-Sunday) Brantwood Coniston Residential Poetry Course co-tutors: New York poet George Wallace and Geraldine Green, Editor and Associate Editor of online magazine Poetry Bay
Bookings through Brantwood

October 3rd-6th (Monday-Thursday) Brantwood Coniston Residential Poetry Course: 
co-tutors Penelope Shuttle and Geraldine Green
Bookings through Brantwood

all photos copyright Geraldine Green

WALKING HOME - AN EXPLORATION OF PLACE AND DISPLACEMENT

September 18th-22nd Friday-Tuesday - Walking Home

Residential Writing Course on a working upland farm near Kirkby Lonsdale - course runs from 2pm Friday to 2pm Tuesday

Through a series of writing prompts and a variety of stimuli, new writing will be created exploring the themes: home, place and displacement

Course Fee £300 per person. Refreshments provided and included in the cost (tea/coffee/biscuits)

Bed and Breakfast accommodation is available on the farm for four people in 2 single bedded rooms and one double

Cost: £20 per person per room

Trip Advisor for info on accommodation in and around Kirkby Lonsdale

Camping on the farm:

Room for one family sized tent, or two small ones £5 camping fee

Room for one camper van £5 parking fee

£10 for two evening meals at the farm

Evening meals provided by Jane on the farm on two nights.

On the other two nights we'll go into Kirkby Lonsdale, explore the pretty little market town, the Devil's Bridge and Ruskin's View - on one night we'll have pub grub in one of the pubs in the town and another night fish and chips in Jingling Lane Cafe. (Participants to pay for their own meals on these two evenings)

Lunch on the farm £5 each day, excluding Friday 18th.

Please email me for more details/course bookings

geraldinegreen[dot]poetry[1][at]gmail[dot]com

WRITE ON THE ISLAND - Piel Island, Furness Peninsula SW Cumbria

SATURDAY MAY 23RD: This month's Write on the Farm workshop will be held on Piel Island  a small island at the far end of the Furness Peninsula in south west Cumbria. With a ruined Castle, King of Piel, pub and seals, it's an ideal 'away from it all' writing retreat.

The workshop starts at 10.30am, when we catch the ferry to the island, and finishes around 4pm, when we return by ferry to Roa Island. A road connects Roa Island with Rampside.

Please bring with you lunch and refreshments. You can also buy these in the pub on the island if you wish.

Please come prepared for the weather and wear suitable footwear and clothing. Bring with you notebook and pens/pencils.

Cost:
£35 for the workshop
£5 return on the ferry from Roa Island Jetty to Piel Island (and back). It's a short trip, but very enjoyable.

10am - Meet in free car park, Roa Island at 10am.

We'll return from the island to the mainland around 4pm (depending on ferry times)

Places limited to 10 people - please book early!

Writing exercises will include: a 'point to point' around the island writing a plein air at a series of selected stopping points; exploring the idea of the eerie, referring to Rob MacFarlane's recent article in the Guardian and writing the landscape, as well as warm-up writing exercises designed to get your creative juices flowing! The island is rich in history from the Monks of Furness Abbey to smuggling to witnessing the launch of modern submarines, as well as wildlife, including Common and Grey Seals.

photos by Geraldine Green

How to get there: A590 to Booths roundabout, Ulverston - carry on across roundabout a short distance to a set of traffic lights. Turn left at these lights, following the signs for the A5087 "Coast Road, Bardsea" - continue along the Coast Road (which connects Ulverston and Barrow) Continue on the A5087 for about 15 minutes until you come to a roundabout. Turn left at the roundabout, for 'Rampside'. A causeway-road connects Rampside to Roa Island. Once on Roa Island, the free car park is on your right.

Please note: should the weather be bad, then Plan B is to hold the workshop in Conishead Priory, where we can wander through the woods to the beach, look across to Chapel Island, and have refreshments in the gardens, or in the cafe.

Interested? Please contact me for more details: geraldinegreen[dot]poetry[1][at]gmail[dot]

A WING & A PRAYER - Launch of New Collection, Swarthmoor Hall Press

Delighted to say that my new collection of poetry and prose will be launched on Friday June 12th 2015, at 2.30pm, Swarthmoor Hall Ulverston Cumbria UK - all very welcome!

This new pamphlet collection is the culmination of my writing residency at Swarthmoor Hall and is part of the Midsummer Festival of Words and Music, June 12th - 14th 2015, at Swarthmoor Hall, Ulverston, Cumbria, UK

Swarthmoor Hall is the Birthplace of Quakerism, home of Margaret Fell, her husband Judge Thomas Fell and after his death, her second husband, George Fox.

Tickets can be booked line through Swarthmoor Hall, or simply turn up on the day and share with me in my celebration of my new collection A Wing and a Prayer

Join us on Saturday June 13th at 2.30pm, when I'll be joined by contributors of the Living Words anthology, poetry and prose written on one or more of my four Living Words workshops that took place during 2014:

A Wing and a Prayer

Healing Well

Fire on the Tongue
Touch the Earth

(Please note: the latter is from a book of the same name A Self-Portrait of Indian existence compiled ed. by TC McLuhan, Touchstone Press)

And on Saturday morning 10.30am-12 noon when I'll be co-running a children's storytelling and drawing workshop with Judith Petty

All info can be found on Swarthmoor Hall's website

Swarthmoor Hall Lane, Ulverston LA12 0JQ
01229 583204

Full itinerary of readings and workshop here:

Midsummer Festival of Words and Music

A Wing and a Prayer | Friday 12 June 2:30pm Conference Room

Geraldine Green, writer in residence, Swarthmoor Hall

To celebrate her role as writer in residence at Swarthmoor Hall local writer Geraldine Green will be reading from her new pamphlet collection called 'A Wing and a Prayer'. Geraldine’s work celebrates her residency at the Hall and was written in response to her reflections on Margaret Fell and George Fox, plus her experience of growing up on the Furness Peninsula and her love of its wild and peaceful places.

Says Geraldine: "Having Swarthmoor Hall as a base from which I can draw inspiration, create new writing, share my discoveries with others through my own work and through creative writing workshops, is something to be treasured".

•Tickets £7.50 includes refreshments

Story Trees – for 7-11yr olds | Saturday 13 June 10:30am - 12:00pm

Geraldine Green and Judith Petty

Children’s workshop with Geraldine Green set in and around the wildflower meadow, gardens and inside the Hall. Refreshments provided.

•Tickets £3 per child

Living Words | Saturday 13 June 2:30pm Conference Room

Geraldine Green & friends

Join us for a celebration of writing from the Living Words creative writing workshops held in 2014. Participants wrote in response to a variety of poetry and prose themed around the elements and seasons and will be reading their work at the Festival from a new anthology entitled Living Words.

After the readings there will be an opportunity to chat to writers over a cup of tea and slice of cake.

•Tickets £5

The weekend will also have two Musical events:
Saturday June 13th Eden Thomas and Friends Saturday 7.30pm Tickets £7.50
and
Sunday June 14th 5pm Classic Gershwin, part of the International Music festival with Viv MacLean (Piano) and Sue Porrett (Narrator)