Lisa Selvidge

Writer & Tutor of Creative Writing


Fiction writer and creative writing tutor offers feedback/critiques on prose fiction, scriptwriting and memoir (either by email or in situ), writing holidays for small groups, one-day or half-day workshops, and creative writing courses on writing fiction and writing memoirs in the Algarve, Portugal, as well as a writing memoir service. Accommodation in the Monchique mountains is also available, providing a perfect retreat not only for writers but also for walkers, birdwatchers and anyone else who enjoys the mountains.

 

'To write a novel you must sit down and stay sitting. Unless you are a Hemingway and you stay standing. Or a Proust and you stay in bed.' Beryl Bainbridge (‘Waiting to Grow Up’, Review Saturday Guardian, 15.10.05)

'It can be said that one slip of point of view by a writer can hurt a story badly, and several slips can be fatal.' Sol Stein, Stein on Writing, St Martin's Press, 1995

'A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.' Virginia Woolf, 1882-1941, A Room of One's Own (1929)

Summer Times in the Algarve, a collection of writings by 17 writers with connections to the Algarve, is about to published by Montanha Books. 'Like the joy of discovering lost snapshots this collection gives treasured glimpses into both the richness and simplicity of Algarve life, past and present.' Virginia Boston

 

New for Summer 2009 - Bica Boa Writing Retreats

More than just a writing holiday, this all-inclusive retreat in the mountains of the Algarve will stimulate your imagination, relax your mind and refresh your senses.

Monthly Writing Workshops in Lagos and Monchique

 

 

 

20 April 2009