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RELAX AND WRITE RETREATS are thrilled to announce a special Feedback and Revision Writing Retreat in SPRINGBROOK, 8 – 10 August 2025!

Super boost your writing this winter at this fun writing retreat in Springbrook at the Theosophical Society’s Education and Retreat Centre. Whether you’re aiming to get stuck into planning your book, or if you have a manuscript almost done and ready for a second draft, this is the retreat for you!

Midday FRIDAY 8 AUGUST to 3 pm SUNDAY 10 AUGUST 2025

Connect with like-minded women around a heartwarming fire in a beautiful, rainforest location.

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Be inspired by practical and informative workshops, which will equip you with all the tools you need to plan your project or superpower your second draft.

Stretch and relax with yoga and release your inner-goddess on the mountain top!

Deep relaxation at yoga class on writing retreat

Feast on delicious home cooked vegetarian meals made with love

This writing retreat is tailored for those who have a major project underway, or in the planning stages. The focus is on structuring for success and story development, with a special session on how to pitch your work to publishers. Workshops include finding the heart of your story, structuring for narrative drive, pitching and publication pathways.

Share your work with other writers at a similar stage in small, friendly feedback groups and/or pay slightly more to receive individual editorial feedback on your writing and advice from Edwina. Feedback on your work will help you move forward with your project, knowing you’re on the right track. But there’s no need to do feedback if you’re not yet ready.

The program includes three yoga sessions, readings night and three creative writing workshops.

ALL INCLUSIVE! Two nights’ accommodation in basic but comfortable single rooms, with bathrooms shared between two women, plus all meals, morning and afternoon teas are included in the cost.

FROM ONLY $550 all inclusive, for a room of your own. Rooms have single beds with electric blankets, cupboards and a writing desk and chair.

Come along and join the fun, make new writing buddies and renew your love of writing and life.

RETREAT PROGRAM All activities are optional

FRIDAY 8 AUGUST

ARRIVAL from midday– get settled and get writing

4:00 pm – Meet and Greet

4:30 – 6pm WORKSHOP 1– Finding the heart of your story. What is your story’s central quest/question? Your premise.

6:00 – DINNER

SATURDAY 9 AUGUST

7:15 am – 8:30 – gentle morning YOGA and deep relaxation

8:30 – BREAKFAST

10:00 am – 1 pm – WORKSHOP 2 – Structuring for success. Scene lists, suspense and more

1 pm – LUNCH

2 pm – 6 pm FEEDBACK GROUPS/INDIVIDUAL FEEDBACK SESSIONS/OR WRITING TIME

6:00 pm – YOGA Breathing and deep relaxation

6:30 pm – DINNER

7– 8:30 pm – READINGS AROUND THE FIRE

SUNDAY 10 AUGUST

7:15 am – 8:30 – gentle morning YOGA and deep relaxation

8:30 – BREAKFAST

10:00 – 12:30 – WORKSHOP 3 –Publishing pathways, pitching and proposals, bios, your writing CV – collage

3 pm DEPARTURES

UNWAGED/ CONCESSION: $550 (those struggling financially)

WAGED: $700 (those doing okay – please choose this option if you’re doing well)

Plus optional $75 extra for editorial feedback on your synopsis and first 5 pages from Edwina (Includes 20 min meeting)

You can pay your $200 DEPOSIT HERE

Come and join us in spectacular Springbrook, for a weekend dedicated to helping you get your book written and ready for publication!

Drop me a line for the flyer, or SIGN UP HERE (remember to always send me an email to make sure I have places still available).

I hope you can come! We always have a wonderful time!

Lots of love,

Edwina 🙂 xx

Have you always dreamed of your very own Under the Tuscan Sun writers retreat? Yearned to stay in a beautiful medieval palazzo in the Tuscan hillside? Fantasised about sitting under an olive tree writing in your journal, words pouring onto the page, flowing effortlessly.

A glass of wine on the terrace overlooking the forest, before a delicious organic dinner prepared by your own private chef who may just serenade you later by the fire. Settling into crispy sunshine-soaked sheets in your giant bed overlooking the hills, staring out at the moon and dreaming up your next chapter.

Yoga in the mornings, first class writing workshops during the day, excursions and a cooking class, meditation and feasting every night, all in the fun company of other like-minded writing folk. Sound like heaven? it is!

Come and join us in October 2025 for seven nights (10 -17th) of writing and relaxing bliss at the magnificent Terzo di Danciano for the writing retreat of a lifetime! Check it all out HERE.

Two highly qualified and experienced writing coaches and published authors, Edwina Shaw (that’s me:) ) and Kerstin Pilz, will gently guide through everything you need to know to write your book and get it ready for publication, and show you new ways to get those stories out of your head and onto the page.

We have two beautiful double rooms and two places in a triple room still available. Bring your partner (they don’t have to write – we offer a discount for non-participating friends), or grab your writing bestie, or just come on your own and share with a wonderful new writing friend.

We’re so excited about our first ever Italian Writing Retreat, a dream come true!

For all the info see our International retreat website Transformational Writing Retreats. Come and join us for the writing holiday you’ve always dreamed of and watch the magic of Tuscany transform your stories, and your life.

You deserve the very best in life. Your creative spirit is calling.

Follow your dreams to Italy for this once in a lifetime writing retreat!