Writing retreats created by writers, for writers, with a thoughtful blend of touring, social time, and dedicated alone time to focus on your writing.

Go and Write! with Dr. Gerard Collins and Jane Simpson, professional, award-winning authors based in New Brunswick, Canada. Our participants include emerging and published writers of all genres—poets, dramatists, children’s authors, memoirists, and more—as well as their friends, family and spouses.

Every retreat, whether we’re at a historic estate in Atlantic Canada, a castle in Scotland or Ireland, a manor house in England, or a villa in Italy, delivers a unique, life-changing experience and creates new friendships. We hope you’ll join us on our next adventure.

The mix of travel and writing made this a truly special trip… Even if it is a cliché, this was the experience of a lifetime. ~ M.I.

Upcoming Go and Write! retreats and workshops

Visit our Current Retreats page for more information.

While all of our retreats for 2025 are sold out, cancellations do happen, sometimes, so please reach out if you’re interested.

We’re pleased to share that we’ve just released our first batch of retreat details for 2026 and have begun taking registrations. We launch new retreats as we finalize negotiations with venues, so if you’d like to receive notice of our retreats as we release them to the public, sign up for our e-newsletter.