Inspiring Writing Retreats to Explore in 2025

The Art of Writing is an intimate retreat in Tuscany run by Italian resident, author and journalist, Lisa Clifford. With special appearances from best-selling authors, literary agents, and other writing tutors from around the world. These small-group retreats are designed for writers in the mountains of Tuscany to help them reconnect with their writing muse. Whether you’re a published author or just starting out, these sessions are perfect for you.

Barcelona Writing Retreat offers a seven-day immersive experience in the beautiful Alaya retreat center, surrounded by vineyards and mountains. Participants can enjoy writing sessions, business workshops, yoga, wine tasting, and trips to local attractions like Sitges beach and a nearby waterfall.

Enjoy a week of creative grandeur with seven fellow writers at a magnificent Château in the heart of the Bordeaux vineyards. Each morning, they’ll gather for three hours in one of the castle’s magnificent rooms, or poolside, to workshop beginning chapters, opening scenes, and examine the types of contracts writers make with readers on page one. They’ll discuss writing vs. storytelling, ways of immersing the reader, and how to bank and spend emotional currency. Each participant will also have a half-hour private session. All genres are welcome in this generative workshop.

Meet with screenwriters and producers in workshops dedicated to writing screenplays. Turn your novel into a screenplay or start one from scratch. Either way, prepare to enter the world of agents and producers. All in the Sant Mori Castle, Spain.

Make time and space for yourself: gain focus, find inspiration and hone your craft through daily workshops, independent writing time and feedback sessions. Enjoy writing in unforgettable surroundings in the supportive company of like-minded people and enhance your day with a walk. Your tutor will guide you through workshops and discussions on key elements of writing, such as characterisation, story structure and plot development, point of view, voice, sense of place and dialogue.

The retreat is designed for beginning, emerging, and published writers–anyone who feels the urge to reconnect with their writing self, or deepen and improve their work. Get in touch with your senses in daily morning workshops, generate new writing based on new experiences in Collioure and the wider world. In the afternoon, venture out–swimming, hiking, marketing–and loosening your grip on yourself and your work.

This Summer Writing Retreat will be the perfect chance for you to get your creative juices rolling as you tour your way all across Ireland attending daily talks and workshops, all while attending Irish musical concerts, going on island and castle tours, and soaking in the beautiful landscape.

Barcelona Writing Retreat offers a seven-day immersive experience in the beautiful Alaya retreat center, surrounded by vineyards and mountains. Participants can enjoy writing sessions, business workshops, yoga, and trips to local attractions like Sitges beach and a nearby waterfall.

This is a structured writing workshop for writers of all levels who want to tell their own story or write a non-fiction. The course is a daily combination of technical writing techniques, working through your personal and writing blocks, finding ways to access your memories and plan your story. This is ideal if you are writing a memoir, biography, non-fiction or e-course and you need to understand how to structure a publishable book. Both novices and experienced writers are welcome.

This retreat is designed to help you achieve success in your writing. You’ll find a welcoming house, inspiring views, award-winning mentors, the company of other writers, sunshine, and amazing food. Be inspired to reach greater heights, whether you are a beginner, emerging or published writer.

A week in the company of writers in a stunning ‘belle epoque’ mansion located in Grasse, the perfume capital of the world, in the Provence-Cote d’Azur region. The group of writers will be limited to 8, a nice and intimate number. They’ll meet each day in one of the mansion’s many cozy rooms, or poolside, or on a veranda overlooking the sea. There, they’ll do fun and generative exercises, craft talks tailored to the writers’ specific goals and identified areas of focus and development, and they’ll discuss each participant’s individual work in a collaborative, supportive and inclusive setting. The writers will share their work and gather personalized, curated feedback. Each writer will also get a 1 hour one- on-one session for discussions, strategies and guidance/encouragement. Of course, the day will be filled with ample time to write and reflect in an extraordinary destination-vacation setting.

The Garsdale Retreat provides an inspiring place to develop as a writer. Their courses offer opportunities for new, emerging and experienced writers. The tutors, all professional writers, lead workshops and also give one-to-one tutorials to help the individual student. In the remote and beautiful setting of The Yorkshire Dales, The Garsdale Retreat gives a wonderful opportunity to escape from the daily stresses of life and to draw inspiration from fellow students, tutors and the landscape itself.

The Tuscany Writing Retreat is set in the hills above San Gimignano on a estate surrounded by verdant rolling hills, olive groves, vineyards, wildflowers, and herbs which will assault your senses and summon your creative spirit. Your home for the week will be in two splendid villas set on private grounds with two swimming pools and abundant indoor and outdoor areas at your disposal for writing, engaging discussions, and relaxing.

Join award-winning authors and teachers Nancy Stohlman and Robert Vaughan, along with a small cohort of your colleagues, as they travel to the vineyards and sunflower fields of southern France for a breakthrough gathering of inspiration, creation, and transformation.

This retreat, which lasts for a week, will include daily 2-hour sessions of teaching and exercises, followed by private writing time. There will be in-depth one-to-one sessions, with follow-up meetings as the week progresses, and opportunities for evening gatherings to share your work through informal readings and supportive group discussions.

Reconnect with the pleasures of writing at this 7-day, 6-night retreat hosted by international writing expert Helen Sword in the beautiful Swiss alpine village of Wengen. Whether you aspire to make progress on a specific project or seek fresh inspiration, this intimate gathering will replenish your creative energies and provide you with the time and space you need to experiment, play, and breathe fresh air.