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Travel/Literature/Culture
Write in Italy! / Scrivere in Italia!
October 7 - 16, 2011
Join us for another wonderful TLC Cultural Writing Tour in inspirational Italy.
Limited to eight participants
Download a Brochure, and see below for details.
We will start on Friday October 7 at our headquarters in Bolsena, Italy. Sixty kilometers north of Rome and located at the juncture of Lazio, Umbria and Tuscany, Bolsena is full of ancient ruins, winding narrow streets, and cool breezes off Lago Bolsena, the largest volcanic lake in the area. It lies on the pilgrim's trail and is the site of a real life miracle. The basilica is across the street from our home base.
Saturday morning starts out with a meeting on the terrace, followed by a workshop on travel writing with Tristan Rutherford, successful British travel writer. Tristan will discuss not only the techniques special to travel writing but writing skills in general. Through writing exercises and focused feedback he will show us how to add color, flavor and excitement to our writing, no matter what your writing field.
After an afternoon with Tristan we will have dinner on the lake in Bolsena.
Sunday starts out with another focused workshop with Tristan, learning writing techniques that will enhance your writing not only during the tours we take for the workshop but for your writing far into the future.
Sunday afternoon and evening will be spent visiting the town of Bolsena, sailing on the lake, and we will have dinner in a nearby town. The islands and lake shore are spectacular, and worth an article if you'd like to put your new travel writing knowledge to the test.
Monday we will have a great short story workshop with Annie Kirby-Singh. We will also begin our exploration of the nearby Tuscan and Umbrian countryside.
On Tuesday we will visit with renown Italian novelist Sanda Petrignani in her home, and enjoy wine and cheese overlooking her small vineyard.
On Wednesday we visit writer Clara Sereni. Her work covers a number of genres and she will talk to us in a question/answer session about how to succeed in a variety of venues.
On Thursday, photographer Pasquale Comegna will be our host and guide through a nearby town, and those who wish to can take a photography workshop with him. He runs workshops throughout Italy, as well as publishing his photos in many of the leading national magazines.
On Friday we will visit Vetralla, where Mary Jane Cryan - an Irish writer of Italian history - will discuss her work, and techniques for writing history. In Vetralla we will also spend an afternoon in a cooking class in a centuries-old villa with chef Fulvio Ferri, and eat on the terrace overlooking the entire town.
We will of course visit many of the small towns nearby, including Civita, Montelpulciano, Montefiascone, Rome, Bomarzo and Viterbo, and others.
On Saturday, I will do a quick workshop on writing for both online and print publications; you might see your work published almost immediately on lifeinitaly.com.
We post more details as they come available; please check back to see what has been added!
If you would like to receive a brochure, please email me with your mailing address.
You can also download a copy here.
The fee for the entire workshop includes everything from when we pick you up at the train station: hotel, all transporation, all workshops, meals, entrance fees if applicable, and wine.
Total cost = 2300 Euros.
Your travel to Italy is not included.
See you in Italia!
Information on previous workshops is below.
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Travel/Literature/Culture
Write in Italy! / Scrivere in Italia!
After our successful October, 2008
Writing Workshop in Bolsena, Italy,
we returned for another wonderful nine-day event.
May 21-30, 2010
Writeups of this event coming soon!
(See below for our 2012 Turkish Writing Delight)
Italian Itinerary:
May 21 - arrival in the lovely town of Bolsena, north of Rome. Located at the juncture of Lazio, Umbria and Tuscany, Bolsena is full of ancient ruins, winding narrow streets, and cool breezes off Lago Bolsena, the largest volcanic lake in the area. It lies on the pilgrim's trail and is the site of real life miracle. The basilica is across the street from our home base.
In the nine-day event we visited Vetralla, Montepulciano, Montefiascone, the coast of the Mediterannean, Deruta, Viterbo/Bomarzo, Rome, Civita & Lubriano, and heard wonderful talks and participated in writing exercises with travel writer Tristan Rutherford, novelist Sandra Petrignani, history writer Mary Jane Cryan, and Teresa Cutler-Broyles. We participated in a cooking lesson with reknown chef Fulvio and ate our meal on a terrace overlooking the Tuscan countryside.
And what's a lake-side writing workshop without a sail on the lovely Lago Bolsena with Stefano - we spent a morning doing just that.
Time was set aside for writing on the terrace, by the lake, or in the cafes, and everyone had a wonderful time.
Email me for more information about upcoming workshops, special discounts, and to request a brochure for October, 2011!
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Turkish Writing Delight!
Our writing workshop & retreat in exotic and exciting Turkey
May 2012
Sign up soon to reserve your place!
Itinerary:
We will start in Istanbul, ancient Constantinople in the heart of Sultanahmet where we'll visit the Blue Mosque, Aya Sofia, the cisterns, and Arasta Bazaar. We'll visit with Turkish writers and have two evenings of workshops/writing, and determine a potential project to focus on for the next ten days.
On to Ankara, Turkey's capital city and the incredible Hittite museum. In Ankara, Turkish writers will share their knowledge and we will participate in two workshops.
Then we'll visit Cappadocia, an underground city from 10,000 years ago, formed by the wind blowing over and through stones for centuries. We will spend a day writing in the valleys, and enjoy music in the caves.
We will move on to Konya and Rumi's tomb. We expect it to inspire us as it has inspired mystics, poets, and writers for hundreds of years.
Next is Afrodisias, the City of Aphrodite, the original goddess of love; here we will write near the ancient temple, awash in the sunlight and magic of the place.
On to Ephesus, an ancient port city during Classical Greece and today one of the most impressive ancient cities in existence in the world. We will write among the ruins.
Back to Istanbul for one last day and night.
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See our October, 2008, writing workshop & retreat in Italy.
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