# Event Details

- **Event Name**: The Art of Memoir Weekend and The Art of Writing Retreat
- **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 04 Jul, 2025 at 05:00 pm – Fri, 11 Jul, 2025 at 04:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Write your story with personal guidance from the experts

Escape to the Karoo for a memoir weekend and a writing retreat to focus on your creativity and writing.

Spend a weekend learning to write memoir with flair. Stay on, or join us afterward, for a week’s retreat in which you can write, think, breathe … and gain the best advice on your writing, fiction or non-fiction.  

allaboutwritingcourses.com/karoo-writing-retreat/

We’ve designed two exciting writing programmes:

The Art of Memoir weekend, for memoir writers from 4 to 6 July 2025. Under the baton of two acclaimed South African writers, Joanne Hichens (Death and the Afterparties) and Jo-Anne Richards (The Innocence of Roast Chicken) we’ll show you how to plan, structure and write your memoir.

And a follow-on Art of Writing retreat, 6 July to 11 August 2025, is open not only to participants of the memoir weekend, but also so to all writers whether you are writing memoir, crime, short stories, literary fiction … Whatever you need, we can help.

Escape the demands of job, partner, children, household and pets, and focus on your creativity at the quintessential Karoo country hotel, where all your needs will be taken care of.

There’ll be writing, music, art and delicious food in artistically driven luxurious surroundings. Be inspired by the vast Karoo landscapes. Spend a weekend learning the skills of the best memoirists.

Follow it with a week devoted to your writing, in which two internationally published authors, with decades of experience mentoring writers in a variety of genres, will provide personal guidance.

Come for both – or either.

More information here: https://allaboutwritingcourses.com/karoo-writing-retreat/

Or email:
trish@allaboutwritingcourses.com
reservations@karooarthotel.co.za

Download the brochure here: https://allaboutwritingcourses.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/the-art-of-memoir-and-the-art-of-writing-2025.pdf

Your writing coaches and mentors:

Joanne Hichens is an author and editor, ana a writing teacher and mentor. Her crime fiction titles include Divine Justice and Sweet Paradise. Her memoir Death and the After Parties was published in 2020.

“In Death and the After Parties I write about the passing of my mother, husband, father and mother-in-law, and examine everything that happened after their deaths – the emotional frenzy, the funerals, the family strife, the fighting, the loving. I describe first-hand the shock, the grief, the mourning, the betrayals, ultimately focusing on recovering from loss.”

Jo-Anne Richards is an internationally published novelist with a PhD in Creative Writing from Wits University. Jo-Anne has published five novels: The Imagined Child, The Innocence of Roast Chicken, My Brother’s Book,  Touching the Lighthouse and Sad at the Edges.

Her first novel, The Innocence of Roast Chicken was recently rereleased as part of the prestigious Picador Africa Classics collection. When it first appeared, in 1996, it was nominated for the Impac International Dublin Literary Award and chosen as an “outstanding debut novel” by a British book chain.

Jo-Anne has published short stories in six collections and ran the Honours programme in Journalism & Media Studies at Wits University for fifteen years. She has supervised Creative Writing Masters students at Wits and UCT, and acted as examiner for both programmes.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/robertson/the-art-of-memoir-weekend-and-the-art-of-writing-retreat/200028051896131
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, parties, entertainment
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 7

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Robertson
- **state**: WC
- **country**: South Africa
- **location**: Karoo Art Hotel
- **lat**: -33.904729836344
- **long**: 20.719770645438
- **full address**: Karoo Art Hotel, 14 Laing St, Barrydale, 6750, South Africa, Robertson

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is The Art of Memoir Weekend and The Art of Writing Retreat being held?
  - **A:** The Art of Memoir Weekend and The Art of Writing Retreat takes place on Fri, 04 Jul, 2025 at 05:00 pm to Fri, 11 Jul, 2025 at 04:00 pm at Karoo Art Hotel, 14 Laing St, Barrydale, 6750, South Africa, Robertson.
- **Q**: Who is organizing The Art of Memoir Weekend and The Art of Writing Retreat?
  - **A:** The Art of Memoir Weekend and The Art of Writing Retreat is organized by All About Writing.
- **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me?
  - **A:** The Art of Memoir Weekend and The Art of Writing Retreat is ideal for curious learners, students, and skill-builders looking to gain hands-on knowledge and practical expertise in a focused, interactive setting. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Robertson, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If The Art of Memoir Weekend and The Art of Writing Retreat sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast.

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