Join me in Morocco!
I'm going to Morocco in October and I'd love you to join me. I am facilitating a writer's retreat in an oasis in the middle of the Sahara desert. It's been 23 years since I last travelled to Morocco and I look forward to all those delicious tagines and couscous and mint tea and pigeon pie. Included in this incredible 12 day retreat are visits to the ancient city of Fes and iconic Marrakech and a camel trip to the giant dune of Erg Chebbi for an overnight camp followed by breakfast the next morning with a local Berber family. The actual writer's retreat (which runs for six of the twelve days) takes place at the Cafe Tissardmine guest house located in the tiny traditional Berber village of Tissardmine. As well as learning all about how to write a travel memoir you'll get to do things like sleep under the stars and in a deluxe Berber tent, eat traditional Berber food cooked on the fire, walk along dunes made by 5,000 years of shifting sands and even ride a camel into the sunset.
The retreat is run by founder and director Karen Hadfield and my workshop is just one of a series of great programs of Art Retreats in creative writing and photography coming up in the next 12 months. This is the blurb for my retreat…
'You've climbed a mountain in Kyrgyzstan with a bunch of goats or spent a year living above a trattoria in Palermo or perhaps you are planning a great adventure overseas and think that there might be a book in it. You want to write about your journey but you're not too sure how to start, what to say and how to make it interesting for other people. In this intensive travel writing workshop I will reveal how to create a good 'hook', how to structure your travel memoir, the art and craft of travel writing, ways to evoke a sense of place, how to write a compelling book proposal and how to get published. Whether experienced writers or people coming to personal narrative for the first time, participants will be able to improve their work through daily assignments, group discussions and individualized coaching from an experienced best-selling travel author.'
To find out more, including costs, travel arrangements and a detailed itinerary go to my events page here.
In the meantime here are some pics of what to expect…
The Oasis…
The desert…
The retreat…
The camel trek…
The sand dunes…
The evening's entertainment…
The evening's entertainment (part 2)…
