Andros is a quiet and peaceful island with little tourism making it an ideal place to slow down and listen to your writer’s voice.  Aegean Arts Circle  keeps each workshop small, choosing instructors who not only have published their writing but are generous with their commitment and support to the new writing created at the workshops.  many participants return year after year. Some have published novels, poetry collections, non-fiction books they worked on in our small groups.  It is an honor to have Pulitzer Prize winner ROBERT OLEN BUTLER lead the 2012 workshop in Andros this year.

To be accepted, each participant has to submit a writing sample and/or a brief description of a writing project you want to work on while in Andros. The goal is to produce new work and get the feedback of a talented, inspirational workshop leader who is a master at his craft.  We work in a group each morning and then break up to have the rest of the day free until we meet up in the evening for our group dinners held on the restaurant veranda overlooking the sea.   There is private time to write and refine your writing.   Like last year we offer writing retreat days to be added on before or after each workshop if you want to spend more time in Andros.  Once accepted to the workshop, please note that you have to come to Greece having read the book FROM WHERE YOU DREAM  by Robert Olen Butler.