6-Day Writing Retreat in Óbidos

1 – SCHEDULE

• Sunday, 7 September
  2 pm - 6 pm: Check-in at venue
  6 pm - 7 pm: Opening workshop
  7.30 pm: Welcome dinner

• Monday, 8 September
  10 am - 12.30 pm: Writing workshop
  12.30 pm - 5.30 pm: Free afternoon
  5.30 pm - 7 pm: Follow-up workshop
  7.30 pm: Dinner

• Tuesday, 9 September
  10 am - 12.30 pm: Writing workshop
  12.30 pm - 2.45 pm: Free time
  2.45 pm - 6.45 pm: Tour in Óbidos
  7.30 pm: Dinner
  9 pm - 10.30 pm: Candlelit workshop

• Wednesday, 10 September
  10 am - 12.30 pm: Writing workshop
  12.30 pm - 5.30 pm: Free time
  6.00 pm - 8.00 pm: Sunset at the beach
  8.30 pm : Dinner

• Thursday, 11 September
  10 am - 12.30 pm: Writing workshop
  12.30 pm - 5.30 pm: Free afternoon
  5.30 pm - 7 pm: Follow-up workshop
  7.30 pm: Farewell Dinner
  8.30 pm - 10.30 pm: Open-mic

• Friday, 12 September
  10 am - 12.30 pm: Final workshop

2 – WORKSHOP DURATION

A total of 21 hours of tutoring/writing sessions.
 

3 – THEMES WE WILL EXPLORE

• Settings from memory
• Inner/outer landscapes
• Place, language, culture, identity
• Writing with saudade
• Tales from the city
• Place and placelessness
• Non-places and the liminal
  
   

4 – WHAT WE WILL READ

Excerpts will be provided. No previous reading required, though of course, given time and headspace feel free to read the full works. Other material might feature in addition to this, also provided.

The City & the City, China Miéville

The hare with amber eyes, Edmund de Waal

Visitation, Jenny Erpenbeck

Granta Magazine #159 - ’What do you see?’

Woman In The Purple Skirt, Natsuko Imamura

Folding Beijing, Hao Jingfang

Stillicide, Cynan Jones

Off the Map: Lost Spaces, Invisible Cities, Alistair Bonnett

Tokyo Ueno Station, Miri Yu

The Disaster Tourist, Yun Ko-eun

Doggerland, Ben Smith

A Burglar’s Guide to the City, Geoff Manaugh

The battle for home, Marwa al-Sabouni

City of Ulysses, Teolinda Gersão

5 – WHO IS TUTORING AND HOSTING?

• Martin Cathcart Frödén| Writer, Creative Writing teacher

Martin holds a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Glasgow and is currently a senior lecturer and director of studies at Malmö University, Sweden. Before turning to academia, he worked as a sound engineer, an avocado picker, a prison teacher and a greengrocer – always alongside writing. He is often found enjoying bikes, kayaks and carbs. He currently lives in Malmö, Sweden, with his wife and three kiddos.

• Conceição Garcia | Escrever Escrever CEO

Founder and CEO of Escrever Escrever, the hosting organisation, Conceição Garcia is passionate about writing, the city of Lisbon and teaching storytelling. Escrever Escrever has been running writing workshops since 2008 and is a long-standing member of the European Association of Creative Writing Programmes.
 

6 – HOW WAS IT LAST YEAR?
Watch the testemonials.