Il Chiostro offers a variety of writing workshops in Italy two seasons each year, spring and fall. Each workshop is set in one location for the week to give you the opportunity to become familiar with a place so you can comfortably settle into your creative exercises. By the end of the workshop you will most likely consider that location home. There are usually several concurrent workshops offered during the week, so you can take one workshop while a partner or friend takes another one in the same location.

Mist in the vineyards of our Chianti valley in Tuscany, photo by Linda Mironti

Why Attend a retreat on writing in Italy? The primary reason is to get yourself far away from all of the distractions of your daily life so you can concentrate your undivided attention on developing your life's craft. Leave your cell phone and fax machine behind. Escape from email for a week in an unfamiliar place. The language is different, the money and food are different, the pace of life is different. When you take yourself out of what is familiar, suddenly your mind opens up to the true potential before you.

The following writing workshops will be offered in the coming season:

Click on one of the programs above for full details and registration. Contact us with any questions.

In the canal by the Rialto Bridge, photo by Andy Holtzman