Wandering Writers Workshops

08/22/2026

This school has no building. It does have a passport ...

And Mexico City gently simmers

08/18/2026

Found on Rick Steves' Europe — a great carry on-only capsule wardrobe.

08/17/2026

Great news for us and you! One more participant just enrolled in Travel Stories in Granada, Spain, and we have exactly 2 spots left! Been thinking about joining this beginner-friendly intensive, but thought it was too late? It’s not!

08/12/2026

Scenery from our various travels

08/12/2026

What makes us different?

The answer is simple, but important:

We’re a traveling, in-person writing school for writers and the writer-curious.

Not a retreat. Not a conference. A school, just one that moves.

✦ We teach in place. Every workshop is built around a remarkable location, because where you write shapes what you write. The setting isn’t backdrop. It’s part of the curriculum.

✦ We learn from working educators. Our instructors are accomplished writers who also know how to teach. We intentionally schedule around academic calendars so we can bring in people who are both excellent writers and excellent teachers.

✦ We focus on genre and craft. Travel writing, storytelling, nature writing, and more. Each workshop is grounded in a specific genre and led by someone deeply fluent in it.

✦ We welcome beginners but we go deep. You don’t need to call yourself a writer. You do need curiosity and a willingness to engage seriously with the work.

✦ We stay analog on purpose. No Zoom rooms. No screens. Just in-person learning, conversation, writing, and exploration with a real instructor and a small group of peers.

The result is more than a creative getaway. These workshops also function as immersive professional development, meaningful networking, and a chance to connect with interesting people outside your usual world.

And we do it all in extraordinary places.

Right now, that place is Granada, Spain 🇪🇸

There is still space in Travel Stories in Granada, September 21–25, but we are very close to full, so if you’re considering it, now is the time to act.

And next?

🌵 Sedona. Spring 2027.

More on that soon.

Wandering Writers Workshops
Serious Craft. Remarkable Places.

08/08/2026

🎧 Meet the instructor behind Writing the Wild in Sedona!

Eric Aldrich will instruct Writing the Wild: A Nature Writing Intensive in Sedona. He’s featured on this episode of the Terrain.org podcast. Eric is a writer, educator, and assistant nonfiction editor at Terrain.org, a leading publication focused on literature, place, and the natural world.

🌵 Writing the Wild in Sedona
📅 March 22–26, 2027
📍 Sedona, Arizona
ENROLLMENT OPENS OCT. 20

This immersive workshop is for anyone who wants to strengthen their writing while learning to observe, experience, and write from some of the Southwest’s most extraordinary natural landscapes.

Listen to Eric, then come write with him in Sedona.

https://www.terrain.org/2026/currents/nonfiction-editors-roundtable/

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08/06/2026

We beg to differ that AI can “better” stories. Storytelling is very much where some of the final vestiges of humanity reside, where wisdom (not just facts) is passed down and shared.

Storytelling is situational, based on lived experience, and involves emotion, which is partially innate and partially relies on cross-cultural context. It requires setting, character, and conflict.

Come find out in one of our place-based experiential courses and “generate” your own stories.

IDEO U's cohort course on directing AI across the full storytelling process to shape your story, build the world around it, and translate it into something people feel.

08/05/2026

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08/01/2026

If you have been thinking about joining us on our Travel Stories in Granada, Spain trip this fall, TODAY is the day to
apply. Otherwise, we can’t guarantee the availability of our included Alhambra excursion!