Free With Words

26/11/2019

This is a beautifully composed and slightly disturbing story from the pen of writer, Paul McVeigh, commissioned for BBC Radio 4. Take just 13 minutes to listen!

In this original short work for BBC Radio 4 by Free With Words tutor, Paul McVeigh, an accident causes a grief-stricken man to have an out-o

09/09/2019

In the kitchen lunch is being prepared, while around the villa and gardens, contented writers are setting their words free...

07/09/2019

All is quiet on the Tuscan front as we await the first arrivals for the Free With Words 2019 writing retreat in this very special place! Looking forward to a week of creativity, fun, great food, wine and company, and most of all, writing!

07/09/2019

Free With Words September Retreat, the villa in Tuscany

07/09/2019

16/07/2019

Here's a little something our director, Brian Finnegan wrote about starting late as a writer, including interviews with million book bestseller, Caroline Mitchell and award winning Free With Words tutor, Paul McVeigh

I got my first publishing deal when I was 45 years old. Five years earlier, as I ushered in my 40s, I thought my time was up in terms of writing. All the big publishing deals I read about were goin…

21/06/2019

On David Bowie, Al Green, Billy Wilder and coming to writing rather than performing, meet Free With Words tutor, Paul McVeigh

“I fell into writing for theatre from directing plays, then comedy while directing stand-ups in London. It wasn't until my 30s I started writing to be read rath

05/06/2019

I had the great honour of ghostwriting the wonderful Collette Wolfe's book, charting her journey through grief to hope after the su***de of her daughter, Leanne, who was brutally bullied in her short life. Listen to her talk about the effects of bullying on Ray Darcy's radio show on June 4

  Run with Ray! This summer RTÉ Radio 1 is inviting all our listeners to Run with Ray! The Ray D’Arcy show is hitting the road on the 10th of June for five special live shows. After each show there will be a 5K ‘Run with Ray’ event at 6pm **registration will begin at 4:30pm please come earl...

05/06/2019

Visit https://www.freewithwords.com/the-next-retreat to find out more!

23/05/2019

A little blog about Free With Words Director, Brian Finnegan's latest ghostrwiting project, the riveting memoir of loss, grief and redemption from Collette Wolfe, and the inspiration he found while working with her.

When I was first asked to ghostwrite Collette Wolfe’s memoir, I had some reluctance. I’d ghostwritten a book about living with depression before for an Irish TV

17/05/2019

“When you allow yourself that time to really concentrate on your work for six or seven days, your writing speeds up every day because you just get there so much quicker. Your work flows and it’s great also to be around other writers.” Award-winning author and tutor on the Free With Words September retreat in Tuscany shares his thoughts about residential writing workshops. Find out more about the retreat Paul will be teaching on here: https://www.freewithwords.com/the-next-retreat