This is the main historic building of The Hayes Conference Centre. A cabinet inside displays items and stories about WWII and the great escape. Some bedrooms are in the main building.
To the right is the modern dining room and the conference hall. More meeting rooms are in other buildings, mostly linked by covered walkways or internal corridors. Visitors and speakers come from as far away as Singapore, Australia and the USA.
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Do you want to learn how to write poetry, plays, novels, short stories? Or maybe you can do one but not the others. Have a go.
The cost varies. to encourage students and those on a low budget, sponsored places are provided, given to those who win various competitions.
Win a Place - Swanwick Writers' Summer School: Find out how you can win your way to Swanwick Writers' Summer School. Known for short simply as Swanwick.
Activities go on all day. Everything from exercise of the mind and body, yoga and dance and prayers to start the day, organized workshops all day, an outing mid-week, or a walk, performing a play, reading your poems, busking and sing alongs, quizzes, talking about your work in progress, meetups with Facebook friends, members of the Romantic Novelists' association, talks and workshops on copywright and writing blogs and marketing and spelling and grammar - until 11 pm or midnight every night.
Forthcoming dates:
8-14 August 2020.
Pack your poems to read out at the open mic (microphone) night, or write more on the course. bring or buy a bottle of wine or soft drink to share, with some to spare for the last night pre-dinner party on the lawn.
It starts Saturday tea-time and ends after breakfast on Friday. I have gone there on the train, paid for the seat on the coach from the station to The Hayes Conference Centre. When I had heavy books, or preferred to drive, and leave home when ready, also I have driven up from London on the Saturday and back on the Friday.
You can see me in the front row on stage in one of the pictures on the Swanwick website. On the last night there's a party on the lawn.
I am on the far right.
Venue
The Hayes is a conference centre surrounded by flowerbeds, fields and a lake, for those who wish to contemplate nature and get away from it all.
Accommodation is at various prices. Food is included, tea on the Saturday of arrival and dinner, breakfasts until the last morning. Free parking on site. One year we drove on north to Scotland and spent time at the Edinburgh Festival.
For a budget alternative, or if you cannot spare the time, if you have friends and family in the area or are touring, drop in just for the day or one or two days and overnight elsewhere on just a day pass overnight one or two nights at the conference centre. Write to ask if they have a room free at a reduced price for a shorter stay.
Where
The Hayes Conference Centre
Swanwick
Derbyshire
England
Useful websites
https://www.swanwickwritersschool.org.uk/
visitbritain.com
About the author
Angela Lansbury
Author of 20 books. travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
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