Happy new writing year! How far in advance do you block out writing time? I plan my retreats for the whole next year at the end of the one before. There might be more to come, as I am testing a new venue in January, but every couple of months, we have a couple ofContinue reading “Happy new writing! Join us in 2026”
Category Archives: retreat dates
When and where do you write best?
I’m choosing dates for my retreats in 2026. This will be the seventh year for Ridge Writing Retreats! So far, I’ve facilitated about 70 retreat days online and in person in Helsinki, Jyväskylä, Tampere and Säynätsalo, and a few hundred hours of Write on Wednesdays. I write well at all our venues, and that isContinue reading “When and where do you write best?”
Happy new year, happy new writing!
Happy new year and happy new writing! 2025 is full of opportunities to write together and I hope you can join me for as many as possible. We are returning to some of our favourite venues and trying a new format. Fifth birthday party: write up to teatime Ridge Writing Retreats turned five last autumnContinue reading “Happy new year, happy new writing!”
Starting a social writing group?
Are you based in Finland and want to set up or improve your own social writing group? Do you want to meet others who help writers put writing first, together? Your group could be a regular hour a week on Zoom, or a one-off writing retreat in person. You might invite people on your corridor,Continue reading “Starting a social writing group?”
Write with us throughout 2024
How far in advance do you block out writing time? I’ve just got my own writing retreat dates sorted for the rest of the year. There might be more to come, but now we know that every couple of months, we have a couple of days to write together in person. Your fellow writers haveContinue reading “Write with us throughout 2024”
All I want for Christmas is time to write
The holidays are coming closer and so are deadlines, but if all you want for Christmas is writing time, we have new dates and a new venue for the new year. Looking forward to writing with you in 2024! Writing in a Winter Wonderland, Unity Tampere 8&9.2.2024 Unity is a brand-new venue for us, inContinue reading “All I want for Christmas is time to write”
Write into 2023
Happy new year! Let’s write again, like we did last year… at two of your favourite venues and in a new social writing challenge. My new year’s writing resolutions are to write little and often, keeping Wednesday mornings for my own writing projects, and to write more in person with others in pairs as wellContinue reading “Write into 2023”
Where do you want to write next?
October is busy. If you do half term or have an autumn break, you are going to need it. Everybody you said you’d do something for wants it now. All the things you signed up for are suddenly happening. And those “by the end of the year” deadlines start looming on the horizon like littleContinue reading “Where do you want to write next?”
Get back to writing
Summer stretches gloriously before us. If you’re in Finland, the holidays are well underway. You won’t expect to hear from your colleagues again for the rest of this month. And if you’re elsewhere in Europe, you still have time to get yourself to Helsinki for 18 and 19 August. Why come to Helsinki? To joinContinue reading “Get back to writing”
Spring into Writing 2022: join us on retreat!
The days are getting longer. The clocks will soon change. Our Wednesday writing group finds the sun rising earlier means we’re waking up earlier. Does that give us more time to write? Finally being back on campus or in the office has been brilliant for meeting in person again. But that means more time gettingContinue reading “Spring into Writing 2022: join us on retreat!”
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