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WritersMosaic residency in Italy

Villa Lugara, Italy

May 2024

The inaugural month-long WritersMosaic writing retreat is coming to an end in Emilia-Romagna. Six writers, working across myriad genres, were awarded places at the residency in a new collaboration with the Hawthornden Foundation.

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Six writers completed their work at the first WritersMosaic writing retreat in Italy in collaboration with the Hawthornden Foundation. Saima Mir, Katy Massey, Clementine Burnley, Amanda Vilanova, Ishy Din and Peter Kalu were awarded places at the month-long residency at Villa Lugara in Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy. The writing undertaken at the retreat, a restored sixteenth century church farm house, includes novels, crime fiction, memoir and plays.

The writers were also been commissioned to write about their experiences at the retreat to be published on WritersMosaic on their return to Britain.

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