Author and experienced international print, radio and broadcast editor-cum-columnist Simon Pia will be a guest tutor at our special retreat

special week in May devoted to teaching participants how to travel the world, for free. Strictly limited to ten participants only...

celebrate by treating yourself and your partner to a special combined ‘learn by travel’ package offered by ‘Ireland Writing Retreat.’

Based in Donegal, the beating heart of Celtic legend, we delighted to announce that Sean Fitzgerald will be a special guest speaker ...

Give the writer in your life a memorable gift this winter holiday, a voucher for a writing retreat in Ireland, Romania or France...

We're already hard at work preparing unique Irish 'cultural immersion' activities for next year's Ireland Writing Retreats in legendary...

...what a terrific time we all enjoyed together in the City of Light, the success of the inaugural ‘Paris Writing Retreat’

Ireland Writing Retreat 2020 from the ‘Forgotten Land’ of Donegal to sandy beaches on the shores of the Black Sea to the romantic Paris...

...delighted to announce that participants to Ireland Writing Retreat will have the pleasure of an exclusive visit to ‘The Red Wheelbarrow’

Let’s be perfectly honest. We’ve probably all faced it. And we’ve managed to overcome it. Until it returns. Again. And again. And yet...

Reflecting growing, widespread international response, next month’s writing retreat is one of the most popular yet in our five-year history.

Lined with restaurants, quaint cafés, bakeries, as well as cheese, wine and flower shops, picturesque Rue Montorgueil was once a popular...

Many congratulations go to one of Ireland Writing Retreat’s leading trainers, Sean Hillen, who has just signed a contract for translation...

Writer? Some readers have contacted us about their interest in attending our international writing retreats but adding a caveat – that...

Watching acclaimed author Umberto Eco sucking delectable juice from the heads of shrimp while discussing his first best-selling novel...

Magical, mysterious! And strangely, no-one knows how it got its name. It's steeped in Celtic Legend and Lore. Gabhla, or Gola Island,...

‘A magnet,’ a ‘Mecca,’ an ‘incubator,’ a ‘hothouse’ for writers – all these things Paris has been called, and rightly so.’ This is the...

Talking deer, love and romance, ghostly apparitions, magical dancing boots, pirates and smugglers, alien takeover of Earth – these were...

While practical guidance on creative writing techniques is a hallmark of ‘Ireland Writing Retreat,’ we also like to provide quality...

Faery folklore is woven into the social fabric of rural west Donegal with wondrous tales of magic handed down from generation to...