A bold new collaboration between Pen to Print, The Boathouse Studios and ByTheBook On International Women’s Day, we are delighted to announce the twenty-one winners of our short story competition, celebrating our diverse community of women writers and femme-identifying individuals. The competition was launched at the Boathouse on 31 October 2025. The judges asked writers to share the stories – whether fiction or memoir – that make us who we are. They were looking for bold, au

I have been noticing something I find really powerful and I have been curious about it for a while. Even in the middle of a cost of living crisis, when people are cutting back on almost everything, they are still finding the money for weddings, engagements, funerals, milestone birthdays, naming days, memorials, leaving dos, anniversaries, wakes, celebrations of life, gathering and shared meals. There is definitely a trend to spend more carefully. But people still make room to

Short Story Competition We are delighted to be partnering with Pen to Print and By the Book to inaugurate our first Women and Femme identifying writers short story competition. Get your entries in soon and spread the word to budding writers who have a story to tell! (with links to By The Book etc) Results will be announced on March 8th, International Women's Day! Get writing. More information HERE .

TThis year marks my second year working remotely from Jamaica and the rhythm of island life has quickly become familiar - the roosters at dawn, children chatter on their way to school, music floating through the air, the SUNSHINE. But, this trip carries a different kind of weight. After 11 long months, I finally reunited with my son. I’d been counting down from the moment The Boathouse gave me the green light and I booked my ticket. What made it even more emotional was knowin

Introduction On October 31st, All Hallows’ Eve, 65 women gathered at The Boathouse Studios for the very first Gathering Table , an evening of delicious food, story and song that brought women of different generations together to share and listen. I wanted to create a space that felt intimate and hopeful, a time for us to get together, share food and stories, laugh, connect across ages and experiences. In a world that feels fractured, this felt like a mini act of repair, a sma

Last Sunday we were delighted to host the launch of Threads of Home, the new poetry collection by local writer Mary Walsh, edited by...

BD Giving officially launched the 2025 Grow Fund 2.0 at a special event held on April 24th at The Boathouse Studios—one of the 2024 Grow...

Oh, what’s this? The Corcoran book collection is hidden away at the end of a corridor in the Boathouse Studios. Well there is no one...

Virtual Team Meeting In December 2024, I traded the cold winter of England for the warmth of Mandeville in sunny Jamaica. I’d like to...