Discover your creativity and imagination in a creative writing workshop or writing retreat in Ireland. Or join The Creative Writer's Workshop in an online fiction writing or memoir writing course and discover your creativity and imagination from home. Enhance your unique writing voice, explore your creative writing abilities and allow your writing to be inspired by The Creative Writer's Workshop – an internationally renowned writing retreat for new and established writers. The Creative Writer's Workshop, founded by Irene Graham in 1991, is based on right-brain/left-brain learning techniques and exercises. Irene Graham also provides private story consultations for advanced writers in the development of creative fiction and non-fiction.
Enjoy our creative writing workshops and writing retreats at one of our magnificent locations:
- the Aran Island of Inis Mór off the west coast of County Galway, Ireland
- a 14th Century Castle set in the heart of W.B.Yeats countryside in County Sligo, Ireland
- a Georgian Villa on the Flaggy Shore in the Burren County Clare, Ireland - Historical home of Lady Gregory
- a Victorian Country Mansion in County Wicklow, the Garden of Ireland
In The Creative Writer's Workshop you will be encouraged to explore your imagination and understand the art of story creation through fiction writing, personal memoir writing and creative writing as you learn to think like a writer. Using right-brain/left-brain learning techniques and exercises you will discover and strengthen your unique writing voice, understand how to tap into your creativity and draw from the well of life experience as you learn how to imaginatively translate those experiences into words for potential story development.
Through the medium of writing you will invigorate your senses and stimulate your thoughts as you enhance your abilities to create and write. The Creative Writer’s Workshop is an internationally proven success with both new and established writers.
Our Residential Writing Retreats encourage you to engage with the landscape, the stories of our ancestors and draw upon the resources of the collective universe and our individual selves to unblock the path to creativity and self-expression through writing. You will learn the art of story creation and how to write creative stories, you will experience an unforgettable holiday, but most of all be inspired by your own creativity.
For advanced writers, Private Story Consultations with Irene are available to support the development of full length manuscripts in both fiction writing and memoir writing.
Whether your passion is to use your imagination to translate life experiences into fiction, or recall your life story and write creative non-fiction, you will lean how to do so in The Creative Writer’s Workshop.
Let the door of your imagination be opened.
Be inspired…write your story!
For Workshop Details:
Writing Retreats in Ireland 2011 - Click here
Writing Retreats in Ireland 2012 - Click here
Story Consultant - Click here
Memoir Writing - Click here
Online Writing Courses and Classes - Click here
Memoir Writing Workbook - Click here
The Creative Writer’s Workshop is available as a commissioned workshop.
The Creative Writer’s Workshop is also held in conjunction with Arts Organisations and Festivals for adults and young people. In 2005 workshops were held in The National Library of Ireland with the James Joyce Ulysses Exhibition and at the Irish Writers’ Centre in Dublin to celebrate the bi-centenary of Hans Christian Andersen. In 2007 The Creative Writer’s Workshop was included in the birthday celebration of William Butler Yeats at The National Library of Ireland.
For further details of The Creative Writer’s Workshop at Festivals and Events in 2011, please click here.
Founded in 1991 by Irene Graham, The Creative Writer’s Workshop is an internationally renowned writing retreat for new and established writers. The Creative Writer’s Workshop is approved by The Department of Education & Science in Ireland.
The Memoir Writing Club, founded by Irene in 2009, and relaunched in September 2011 offers an interactive online memoir writing course using right-brain/left brain writing techniques and exercises, private Audio Tutorials, The Memoir Writing Workbook and an Online Classroom. The Memoir Writing Club also provides a range of exciting facilities to support the writing of life stories for new and established writers.
Fiction Writers in The Memoir Writing Club tap into their well of memory and learn how to translate life experiences into fiction.