Aegean Arts Circle is committed to
keeping 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.
There is private time to write and refine your writing. Each
workshop is organized to meet a most important goal: write well and
publish your best work. Like last summer we will offer writing
retreat days to be added on after each workshop finishes so you can
have private writing time and still be part of the writing group for
discussions before dinner each night.
Several wonderful writers have come from the United States and
Greece to lead workshops for Aegean Arts Circle these past seven
summers. Each one of them has brought his or her own passion about
writing, bringing in fine examples of their own poetry, short
stories, novels and the work of other great writers to help
participants understand what makes writing transcend the boundaries
of the ordinary.
Writers from all parts of the United States, Canada and Europe
gather in Andros to work on their stories, often incorporating the
landscape, history, colors of Greece in their writing. It is a
thrill for me to see this process unfolding.
I
created Aegean Arts Circle because I wanted to develop a writing
community while I was working on my first novel. Many workshop
participants have returned several times to be part of this small
writing community and begin new work. I am currently working on my
second novel.
