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The Skyros Centre

The Writers' Lab Masterclasses

An adult-only creative retreat in the heart of Greek village life

Return home with all the skills and encouragement necessary to pursue your creative vision

 

 

Creating Laughter with Arthur Smith 

Sun 11 - Sun 18 Jul 2021 (7 nts) £765

This Masterclass with Arthur Smith is for anyone who wants to write or perform comedy or for those who just want to gaze at the Aegean Sea and chuckle along with the waves. Arthur will provide advice, exercises, insights and showbiz gossip but, most importantly, will give all students a certificate.

At the end of our week we will present a comedy night to the other students which will demonstrate that 'laughter is the one true metaphysical consolation'.  See you in Greece.

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Sun 18 Jul - Sat 31 Jul 2021 (13 nts) £1,425

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Sun 1 - Sun 8 Aug 2021 (7 nts) £815

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Sun 8 - Sat 21 Aug 2021 (13 nts) £1,425

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Life, Dreams and Fiction with Steve Attridge

Sun 22 - Sun 29 Aug 2021 (7 nts) £815

Discover new ways of writing about your life. Imaginative ways to tap into the events and experiences, memories and people in your life. Lots of tips and techniques for turning these into powerful fiction or straight autobiography.


This course teaches you ways of finding routes through your life and writing about them convincingly and entertainingly. It also encourages practical ways of looking at dreams that will provide ideas for writing. Very useful for writers of prose, drama and poetry.  

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Adventures in Comedy Writing with Logan Murray

Sun 29 Aug - Sun 5 Sep 2021 (7 nts) £795

Comedy, like any other art, is a craft. There are tips and techniques to be learnt. Simply put, if you can understand comedy grammar then unlocking the funny ideas becomes easier. From finding your creative inspiration to learning the building blocks of humour, this workshop will help you discover your unique comic voice.

Although a writing course, there would be some non-writing exercises designed to encourage the participant’s creativity. There would also be writing games with group feedback and tutor led suggestions to help you hone your comedy writing skills. By the end of the course you will know how to write comedy and will have the confidence to stand up on your own and make a group of total strangers laugh.

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Dream Author with Sophie Hannah

Sun 5 Sep - Sun 12 Sep 2021 (7 nts) £765

When publishers talk about finding a 'dream author', they mean an author who is a dream to work with. From a writer's point of view, however, that description can and should mean something else: how to fulfil your creative dreams and make precisely the contribution that you want to make according to your own talents, needs and ideals.

Internationally bestselling crime writer Sophie Hannah has created this course in order to share with writers at every stage of their writing journeys everything she wishes she had known when she started out on hers. She will teach you how to become an author whose dreams come true, in a course that covers the creative, business, psychological and emotional aspects of surviving and thriving as a writer in today's world.

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Sun 12 - Sun 19 Sep 2021 (7 nts) £695

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