DETAILS



Kristina Marie Darling
June 15-27 2024

TWO scholarships available for writers. Please apply by March 15th. 


Arrive in Athens by June 15th no later than 2 p.m. We will take an afternoon ferry to Andros on June 15th  Details on where we will meet, etc. will be sent to all registered participants. Contact me before you book airline tickets. 

We recommend you buy travelers insurance.

Depart Andros for Athens  June 27th.  If you are flying back to the U.S. most flights leave early in the morning and ferries from Andros will not get you to the airport in time so you will have to spend a night in Athens before you fly out. Please check with me before you book airline tickets 


NOTE: this year we have extended the number of days for our workshop.  There is also the choice to join us for a one day visit to the capital of the island, Hora on June 26th. One can visit museums, shops, tavernas, cafes in town, swim. 

Actual workshop days are 10, We will spend 12 nights at the hotel in Andros. 

Consider purchasing travelers insurance for your flight. 

Contact: amaliamelis@gmail.com if you have any questions about your stay in Andros. 


This workshop will begin with a discussion of your existing body of work.   A multi-genre workshop, encompassing fiction, poetry, and nonfiction of all kinds, we will work to refine—and expand your sense of what is possible within—your current writing projects.  This workshop is open to all experience levels, ranging from those who have just embarked on a poetry or prose manuscript to published writers.  Projects of all scopes, from short stories and essays to full length books - are also welcome.  This workshop will offer an opportunity to learn from an experienced instructor as well as colleagues whose work will challenge, delights and surprise you.  We will also spend some time broadening our horizons.  After all, every writer has a repertoire of literary forms in which they are comfortable writing. Our goal for the second part of the class will be to expand that repertoire of forms and techniques, offering tools that can be implemented in both short and long form writing projects.  We will examine types of innovative writing that are seldom taught in creative writing classes, such as erasure, the prose poem, flash fiction, and "found forms" (like footnote poems, glossary poems, and other templates that are not germane to poetry). In addition to in-class writing exercises, and detailed discussions of new drafts, we will examine work by contemporary innovative writers (Jenny Boully, Kristy Bowen, Simone Muench, Yedda Morrison, and Ronald Johnson). These brief readings and sample texts will be provided in class. This segment of the workshop offers an opportunity to experiment, learn about new forms of writing, and see oneself as part of a community of working writers.  We will also discuss the steps one takes to build an audience for a book prior to publication, strategies for effective pitches to publishers, and standard submissions procedures within the industry, in addition to offering personally tailored journal and publisher recommendations.