Join us for a week-long fiction retreat with novelist Nektaria Anastasiadou, author of two novels, A Recipe for Daphne (Hoopoe/AUC Press) and Στα Πόδια της Αιώνιας Άνοιξης (Papadopoulos), and contributing editor at The Markaz Review.

Anastasiadou is the 2019 winner of the Zografeios Agon, a Greek-language literary award founded in 19th-century Constantinople. Her debut novel, A Recipe for Daphne, was shortlisted for the 2022 Runciman Award and longlisted for the 2022 Dublin Literary Award. It was also a finalist (with an Honorable Mention) in the 2022 Eric Hoffer Book Award and a 2021 Women’s National Book Association (US) Great Group Read. In 2023, she was a Writer in Residence at the University of Iowa’s prestigious International Writing Program.

Anastasiadou’s fiction retreat will be tailored to students’ needs and is open to all levels. It may include aspects of fiction writing such as point of view, dialogue, voice, setting, tension, and characterisation. For those just getting started, Anastasiadou will provide support in overcoming fear of the blank page, using one’s senses and experiences, and getting in touch with one’s deeper imagination (skills that we must continually refresh even at advanced levels). The retreat is open to all writers, beginners to experienced, working (or wishing to work) on fiction. Participants can write in English, Greek, Turkish, Spanish, Italian, or French.

Maximum number of participants: 10

Language of instruction: Depending on participants, the language of instruction might be Greek or English, or a combination of both.

Registration deadline: 5 March 2024