A strategic retreat Guest edited by Colin Grant Six writers recall the experience of the first WritersMosaic retreat at Villa Lugara, in partnership with the Hawthornden Foundation Rookie at the Villa Amanda Vilanova “The first moments in Villa Lugara unravel and I realise the absolute wonder of it.” Reading Audre Lorde at Villa Lugara, Italy Clementine E Burnley “On Day Seven I call to the peacock, and he calls back. Some rhythms are beginning to repeat. The bees throng the trees.” Country road Ishy Din “I’d never been able to shake off feeling that my writing career had been a fluke. My apprehension at being in illustrious company was likely to be well founded.“ Here Katy Massey “It felt like a moral decision to come, just as it felt like a moral decision to become an author.” I barely had time to pack Peter Kalu “A deaf person living with nine hearing people. How will we communicate? My inner voice said, ‘just go…finish your autofiction mashup’.” A love letter to the writers who will come after me Saima Mir “[The experience] will transform you into a teller of stories, a weaver of tales, a world-changer. This writer’s retreat will change you.“ (audio read by Jo Alderson)
Rookie at the Villa Amanda Vilanova “The first moments in Villa Lugara unravel and I realise the absolute wonder of it.”
Reading Audre Lorde at Villa Lugara, Italy Clementine E Burnley “On Day Seven I call to the peacock, and he calls back. Some rhythms are beginning to repeat. The bees throng the trees.”
Country road Ishy Din “I’d never been able to shake off feeling that my writing career had been a fluke. My apprehension at being in illustrious company was likely to be well founded.“
Here Katy Massey “It felt like a moral decision to come, just as it felt like a moral decision to become an author.”
I barely had time to pack Peter Kalu “A deaf person living with nine hearing people. How will we communicate? My inner voice said, ‘just go…finish your autofiction mashup’.”
A love letter to the writers who will come after me Saima Mir “[The experience] will transform you into a teller of stories, a weaver of tales, a world-changer. This writer’s retreat will change you.“ (audio read by Jo Alderson)
