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"..it has been restful, productive and inspiring.."


Our next Creative Writing Week will take place from Saturday October 25th until Friday October 31st, 2008


All writers find it fun to write the first draft, but it is what you do with it afterwards that can make it a professional piece of work.


The course will:

- examine ways to help you be self critical

- give you the methods by which to tighten up your story

- show you how to strengthen your characters

- help you polish up your prose

- look at the effects of using humour and tension in your writing

- look at specific issues such as editing and submissions procedure:

Because of the feedback we've been receiving from other participants, the theme of this week will be much more focused on making the most of your ideas and streamlining work under way to give it the best possible chance of appealing to publishers. For this Philip will be sharing his own experience of getting stories published over the last fourteen years with ten different publishers in the UK, US and Australia, as well as his dealings with agents.

Participants are welcome to bring their own 'work-in-progress'.



This six day course will consist of 5 morning workshops on one of Limnisa's terraces overlooking the Saronic Gulf. The workshops will be serious and concentrated. The afternoons will be used to work on your writing and for one-to-one sessions with the tutor. There will be time put aside every evening for open group discussions.

In between the hard work there will be time to enjoy Limnisa. Swimm or snorkel at the Limnisa beach, go for a stroll in the nearby olive groves, do some yoga with Mariel, read a book from the Limnisa library or just gaze out over the sea from the hammock! And last but not least there will be the chance to enjoy the Greek food, home-made jams and bread, and sample the local wine during dinner at night.



Philip Wooderson has written many books for children, published by Scolastic, A & C Black and Oxford University Press. Two of his stories have been Guardian Children’s books of the week. His series of stories about ancient Egypt, the Nile Files, was used by the Times to promote the Tutenkhamun exhibition at the O2 centre in London and a new edition will be published by Franklin Watts in Spring 2008. He has also written two historical novels, 'Trouble at the Mill' and 'Plague' described as "a completely unique approach to historical fiction"; published by Kingfisher in the UK and US. He tutors creative writing days in schools and has talked at the Cheltenham Literary festival. He is presently working on a novel set in ancient Greece.


Philip reading from his work at a school in the township of Langa, Capetown, during his recent visit to South Africa.