Our 2025 Virtual Workshops
Our popular virtual workshops will be back in Winter 2025
Our Springtime 2026 Residential Retreat Book by 30th September for Early Bird Discounts
Fully Inclusive prices from £350
17th to 19th April 2026 in North Yorkshire
Bookings being taken now
We are delighted to announce our Springtime 2026 residential retreat; based at Cober Hill on the beautiful North Yorkshire coast. Set in glorious gardens, close to inspiring, coastal walks.
*A non residential option is available on request
We guarantee to get you writing
We offer Support and encouragement
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About Us
Novelist Clara Challoner Walker and poet Janet Dean created Awakening the Writer Within in 2014, to share their passion for creative writing and literature with like-minded people.
Now, years later, a welcoming community of writers has been forged and the virtual and face to face retreats, courses and workshops in Yorkshire and in South West France have received outstanding participant feedback, from both novice and established writers......
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Our springtime 2026 retreat at Cober Hill, North Yorkshire
17th to 19th April 2026
Our residential retreats are ideal for those looking to start, develop or finish a writing project with peace, quiet, inspriration and support
NOTE - a non residential option is available for those with alternative accommodation within reach of Cober Hill, Scarborough, North Yorkshire
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