Work on writing your own creative adaptation while learning about techniques used in contemporary classics like Sherlock, Bridgerton, and the fairy tales of Angela Carter. This intensive, hands-on reading and writing retreat will be led by award-winning novelist Kirsten Tranter, author of Hold (2016), A Common Loss (2012) and The Legacy (2010) and Associate Professor of English and Writing, Trisha Pender, author of I’m Buffy and You’re History: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Contemporary Feminism (2016).  

The workshop will be accessible to beginners through to experienced authors, but we do ask that you come with your own idea for an adaptation in mind.  This could still be in the early stages of planning, or it could be considerably advanced. Participants can expect to find inspiration and direction for their own adaptation projects, collective engagement with the process of adapting stories into literary, dramatic, and visual forms, and consideration of the ethics and politics of working with existing material.  Alongside you, your instructors will also be working on adaptation projects: Kirsten on her fourth novel, The Passenger, an adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep transposed to the Sydney art world of the early 80s; Trisha on a verse play, The Real Housewives of Henry VIII, based on the actual writings of Henry’s six wives. 

More information at https://www.trishapender.com/

The week-long workshop will be run in English and limited to 8 participants.  Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until places are filled. Tuition is €1900 per person, which includes 25 hours instruction plus a one-on-one meeting with each instructor.  Accommodation and board, involving excellent French food by our chef-in-residence, is €1925 for a single occupancy bedroom with private ensuite at Relais de Camont.