John Sweeney - reporter, podcaster, and author of 12 books - joins Writers' Lab experts, Skyros in the Isle of Wight for a Spring Bank Holiday Writing Retreat. This UK staycation offers a straightforward, easy-to-digest course structure: Saturday: The Wretched Opening. Sunday: Dead Prose Doesn't Sell Books. Monday: Getting The Bloody Thing Published. It's a wealth of writerly wisdom in three bite-sized chunks. See skyros.com

Skyros are very excited to announce John Sweeney's first time hosting one of their popular writing retreats this Spring Bank Holiday His best-selling novel, Elephant Moon, and critically acclaimed podcast, Hunting Ghislaine, have the Skyros Writers' Lab audience gathering their notepads in a frenzy. 

John Sweeney's On Writing Fiction Masterclass runs from Friday 28 until Monday 31 May, 2021.

The price, £475 includes:

• Eight hours of group coaching per week
• Breakfast, lunch and dinner
• Afternoon drop-in classes for three afternoons
• Additional ad-hoc morning and evening activities
• Community structures unique to Skyros that bring everyone together in a fun and authentic way
• Twin shared 4-star guest accommodation at The Grange by The Sea (single upgrades available)
• Coastline walks and opportunities for excursions
• It's a suitably social and yet safe staycation with Covid measures in-place. Skyros' UK accommodation, The Grange, has Good To Go accreditation: https://www.thegrangebythesea.com/good-to-go/ 

For more information or photos, call the Skyros team on +44 (0)1983 86 55 66 or email press@skyros.com.