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We’re going to Bali, June 27 – July 4, 2013
In late June, we’ll be going to Bali. We’ll be staying at, La Villa Mathis a four-star villa in the village of Umalas, a suburb of Seminyak. We’ll be holding our conference in a quiet location that’s surrounded by … Continue reading
Alex Shoumatoff is publishing work from two of Abroad Writers’ Conference participants
Two participants from our recent conference at Hever Castle, have submitted their work for publication to Alex Shoumatoff’s site, DispatchesFromTheVanishingWorld.com. In addition, he is also working with the Moore Family on their multigenerational family saga, the subsistence farmer grandpa, Woody the … Continue reading
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My Week at Hever Castle, by Alex Shoumatoff
The week I spent with Robert Olen Butler and Paul Harding at Hever castle was marvelous and memorable, not just for the spectular venu that the castle provided for the conference. It was really reinvigorating and reinspiring to get into … Continue reading
These Jet Jewels by Laura Glen Louis
Poetry Review by Jane Downs THESE JET JEWELS Some, like elephants, by Laura Glen Louis, El Leon Literary Press, Berkeley, California, 2010, 28 pages, $15.00 paperback. Some, like elephants, circle the ground They sniff every inch … Continue reading
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FLOWER PEPPER by Britt Tisdale
FLOWER PEPPER Hua Jiao (花椒). Szechwan pepper, literally flower pepper. The outer pod of the tiny fruit widely grown and consumed in Asia as a spice; produces on the tongue a tingling, buzzing, numbing sensation like the effect of carbonated drinks or … Continue reading
Abroad Writers’ Conference fellowship winners
1st Place: Rabbits by Jane Downs 2nd Place: Flower Pepper by Britt Tisdale 3rd Place: Strangers on a Bridge by Holly Woodward
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Pulitzer prize winner Robert Olen Butler ‘Write every day’
Robert Olen Butler describes how he gets in the zone for writing every day, revisits his time in Vietnam, and describes his move from drama to fiction in this interview on YouTube with A Well-Lighted Place.
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Sarah Gristwood and Alison Weir bring Hever to life
There is no substitute for travelling to a place of history and seeing it with your own eyes if you want to understand the past, historian Sarah Gristwood says. Writers will walk in the footsteps of the Tudors at Hever … Continue reading
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Meet the experts: Abroad’s lecture series
A while ago, we wrote our Hever Castle writing conference would be a first for us on many levels – our first conference in a castle, our first conference in autumn, and the first time we have combined history with … Continue reading
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Vanity Fair’s Alex Shoumatoff: At the service of the planet
In the digital world, journalists are faced with a choice. They can write in ever-shorter forms for websites so readers need not scroll down, they can come up with short-form text designed for phones and tablets, and they can send … Continue reading