If you want to write your story, this is the workshop to find out how. You will complete the retreat rejuvenated, knowing how to turn your memories into story, and how to write a compelling memoir.

Irene’s Memoir Retreat provides a creative space to define your experiences and write your memoir from the core of personal understanding. It is a time to connect to the heart of your story and feed your inner world.

This special week of writing offers many opportunities to make a deeper connection to your creative spirit.

Come to Inchydoney and write! Delve deep into an authentic Irish experience along the Wild Atlantic Way. Walk the ancient path with Irene, an Irish native… she’s show you the way.

Gourmet food, luxurious private room with balcony and sea views over the Atlantic Ocean.  A memorable journey is assured.

Limited to 9 Participants.

Using innovative right-brain/left-brain learning techniques you will trigger, develop and translate your life experiences into story as you learn creative structure.

It will be a time to discover and enhance your unique writing voice, explore theme and subject and its associated meaning as you learn how to focus your memoir. You will also discover how to engage with truth in the writing of creative non-fiction, delve deep into story creation, and each element of writing memoir.

The workshop is open to new, emerging and established writers to:

• create a short memoir
• develop a full-length memoir
• work on a current manuscript

You receive personal feedback on your story throughout the workshop.

The workshop is based on Irene’s workbook – The Memoir Writing Workbook – which you receive a copy of at the retreat.

Get away to write! Join our Memoir Writing Workshop and learn the art of memoir writing. Leave the workshop knowing how to turn your memories into story, and how to write an engaging memoir.

Irene’s memoir writing workshop provides a creative space to define your experiences and develop your memoir. It is a time to connect to the heart of your story, and be guided in what to write, and what not to write.

Set up a writing break for yourself, then join us for our 2-day writing workshop in the coastal village of Killiney, South County Dublin – 3 minutes from the quaint village of Dalkey.

Delve deep into your story, and relax in luxury as you ponder and discover your inner world of memory.

Using innovative right-brain/left-brain learning techniques you will trigger, develop and translate your life experiences into story as you learn creative structure.

Identify with Story. Develop Characters. Get to know your Setting. Understand how to write Truth. Deepen Writing Voice. Develop Theme. Focus and Structure your Memoir.

Throughout the workshop you will develop a short Memoir and start to write it, fully knowing how to complete it. You will then be equipped to focus on your full-length memoir, by applying all the techniques and exercises completed in the workshop.

The workshop is open to new, emerging and established writers. You may also work on a manuscript currently in progress.

You receive personal feedback on your story at each stage of the writing process.

This is a popular workshop, facilitated worldwide by Irene Graham.

Write Your Memoir – in a venue of classical Irish charm.