Kim Moore’s first collection The Art of Falling (Seren, 2015) won the 2016 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. Her poem In That Year from this collection was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem 2015. She won a Northern Writers Award in 2014, an Eric Gregory Award in 2011 and the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize in 2010. Her pamphlet If We Could Speak Like Wolves (Smith/Doorstop, 2012) was a winner in the 2012 Poetry Business Pamphlet Competition, was shortlisted for a Michael Marks award and named in The Independent as a Book of the Year. She is a PhD candidate at Manchester Metropolitan University and is working on her second collection. She was one of the judges for the 2020 Forward Prizes for Poetry and is the Co-Director of Kendal Poetry Festival.
Tutored Summer Retreat
Tŷ Newydd Writing Centre’s fully catered retreats will provide you with the time and space to write, read and relax. Set in a peaceful location in the stunning surroundings of northwest Wales, you can take inspiration from the spectacular sea views over Cardigan Bay, share ideas over dinner or simply sit back and relax in Tŷ Newydd’s cosy library.
Award winning poet, Kim Moore will be your resident tutor during this fully catered summer retreat. During the week, Kim will be running group workshops and optional one to one 30-minute tutorials. Participants will be invited to send a sample of creative writing in advance.
This retreat is designed for both emerging and established writers of any genre who are looking to dedicate focused time on their writing within a friendly and supportive atmosphere.
On our retreats, everyone will have a room of their own, and your home-cooked meals will be prepared for you by our experienced resident chef. We offer a range of rooms at a variety or prices and accessibility. Please enquire for further information about individual rooms before booking. Guests will be invited to arrive after lunch on the Monday and depart soon after breakfast on the Friday.
Tutor
Kim Moore
Guest Reader
Horatio Clare
Horatio Clare’s first book, Running for the Hills (John Murray, 2006), an acclaimed account of a Welsh childhood, won a Somerset Maugham Award, was longlisted for The Guardian First Book Award and saw Horatio shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year. His subsequent books include A Single Swallow (Chatto & Windus, 2009) which was shortlisted for the Dolman Travel Book of the Year), the best-selling travelogue Down to the Sea in Ships (Vintage, 2015) which won Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year and Icebreaker: A Voyage Far North (Chatto & Windus, 2017). His most recent books are Something of His Art: Walking to Lubeck with JS Bach (Little Toller Books, 2018) and The Light in the Dark: A Winter Journal (Elliott & Thompson, 2018). Horatio's essays and reviews appear regularly in the national press and on BBC radio. He lectures in creative non-fiction writing at the University of Manchester.