An April retreat for prose writers, in Greece with Judy Lev
IAWE
There is so much to learn about writing scenes. You don’t want your scene to sound like a movie script with notes for the director. Just as we dissected sentences at last year’s Prose on Paros retreat from 9:30-12:30, so this year we will dive into scenes. We’ll read examples, discuss, write, read more examples, discuss, write. After a week of focusing on the structure and purpose of scenes, you’ll feel more relaxed and confident when you rewrite whatever you’re working on, be it fiction or nonfiction, in Paros or back home.
In the Paros afternoons from 2-3:30, after a scrumptious lunch prepared by the Thai chef, we will workshop pieces of prose that you will have sent me before the workshop and I will have sent to all the participants. If you’ve never been in a workshop setting, this will be a good opportunity to try it out. You can learn so much from each other’s writing and process. You can also allow yourself to be bombarded by contradictory suggestions.
On Shabbat we will convene at Tao’s center only for a reading. No morning class and no workshop. Everyone will have the opportunity to read aloud to the group.
On week-days, from 3:30 you will be free to rest, explore the island, write or even swim, weather permitting. Our lodgings at Eleana Studios are right on the coast in a small fishing village opposite the island of Naxos. It’s a 5-minute drive or 25-minute walk to the Tao’s retreat center.
All the details with links and costs are on my website www.judylev.com/2026-prose-on-paros
Israel Association of Writers in English (IAWE)
P.O. Box 39385
6139301 Tel Aviv