Tag: DA NANG

CLASSIC ADVENTURES FOR MIND AND SPIRIT

^{THE ABROAD EXPERIENCE – MAKE IT YOUR OWN!}

Da Nang, Vietnam

March 28 – April 4, 2026

The Abroad Spring Experience offers a unique opportunity to

explore a historic destination while enriching your

creative spirit through writing workshops,

cultural events, nightly readings, group dinners

and special best-selling author appearances.

Come join us at a Luxury 5 Star Resort on the beach, just outside the city of Da Nang.

For each guest, we’ll offer a full-service spa, daily massages, meditation, yoga and dance classes, cooking classes, gym center, water sports including kayaking, standup paddle board rental, and Vietnamese cast-net fishing,. There also will be arts and crafts including calligraphy, plaster painting, sand painting, lantern making, and live music performances

Authors joining us:

GERALDINE BROOKS is a Pulitzer Prize Winning Author for her novel MARCH. Two of her books have reached #1 on the New York Times bestsellers list. Her novels People of the Book, Caleb’s Crossing, The Secret Choir and Horse all were New York Times Bestsellers. She is also a nonfiction author of 3 books. Her latest book, Memorial Days, was published January 24, 2025 in Australia.

JACQUELYN MITCHARD Award Winning #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of 23 novels for adults and teenagers. Her first novel, The Deep End of the Ocean, was the inaugural selection of the Oprah Winfrey Book Club, with more than 3 million copies in print in 34 languages. She served on the Fiction jury for the 2003 National Book Awards and was editor-in-chief of Merit Press, a Young Adult imprint under Simon and Schuster.

Additional authors will be posted shortly .

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Breakfast Buffet

Afternoon Tea/lunch

Dinner at Hay Hay, B Lounge or Hoi An Sense Restaurant

Hay Hay

B Lounge

Hoi An Sense

VILLA

Three Bedroom Luxury Garden Villa

We’ll be staying in 6,700-square-foot resort in three-bedroom luxury villas, surrounded by lush gardens and featuring a large private swimming pool. You’ll relax on a private terrace, and rest in two king-size bedrooms and one Twin bedroom as well as a separate living room and dining room. Each fella will be provisioned with cable TV, free wifi, air-conditioning, microwave, a refrigerator and mini bar.

Package Room Rate without Writing Workshops

For readers only! This rate will include seven nights in a deluxe three-bedroom Villa, daily readings, daily massages, spa services, yoga classes, meditation, dance classes, water sports, cultural experiences, and a wide range of activities. There will be live music performances and shuttle service to the cities of Hoi An & Da Nang.

Visit the Hoi An Lantern Night Market. Hoi An is a UNESCO World Heritage Site with a charming well-preserved ancient town. Our group will dine together at Hoi An Sense restaurant–a spot recommended by Michelin–in the ancient town of Hoi An meals included with three-meal plan option. (restaurant.

Other options will include nightly literary salon dinners with guest authors

Shared Room with twin beds $2,450 + $320 (optional) on a three-meals-per-day plan

Single room with King size bed $2,950 + $320 (optional) on a three-meals-per-day plan

Single room with King size bed in private villa: $3,450 + $320 (optional)on a three-meals-per-day plan. The fee for one extra person fee $600 + $320 (optional) on a three-meals-per-day plan

Writing Workshops

Writing Workshops Basic Plan

$750 includes two-writing workshops with guest authors Geraldine Brooks and Jacquelyn Mitchard

Brooks will offer a twelve-hour workshop in Memoir.

Mitchard will offer four-hour workshop on strategies for finishing and publishing your manuscript: The Completion Index: Everything You Wanted to Know About Publishing but Were Afraid to Ask.

Addition Add-on Workshops (Enhanced Plan):

Guest Author workshops–12 hours

$600

Jacquelyn Mitchard, will teach a Critique-and-Revision Seminar for a small number of writers. This workshop is for writers who have completed or nearly completed manuscript of fiction, non-fiction or memoir. It will focus on strategies for revising and perfecting the narrative to increase the potential for successful publication. Manuscripts for this Master Class will be submitted in advance on a competitive basis and just three manuscripts selected, in order to provide the intensive attention of a small-group setting. These three manuscripts will be edited prior to arrival and discussed in a six-hour class. $1,200

(no charge for submission)

IMAGES OF THREE BEDROOM VILLA

IMAGES OF EXCURSIONS

MONKEY MOUNTAIN

Red-Shanked Douc Monkeys

Contact: Nancy Gerbault, Abroad Writers’ Conference, Director. nancy@abroadwritersconference.com