With
Rolf Potts
When
October 13 - 18, 2019
Category
Writers Lab
Package Price
2295.00
$2,295 (USD) includes tuition, breakfast Monday through Saturday, lunch Monday through Friday, final dinner on Friday, and location/materials fees if applicable to the class. Hotel accommodations are not included in the package price; see details above.
Registration Info
Travel transforms us. When we venture out to connect with the world, we open ourselves to insights and revelations about our place within it. Conscious travel becomes not so much about the destination as an end in itself but a means of understanding ourselves in a new place.
Writing while traveling is a time-honored tradition that gives us a deeper sense of what we are experiencing as we begin to see connections between seemingly unrelated events and catch glimpse of the import they contain. Because it provides insights that may have eluded us in the past, travel writing is a well-worn path to self-discovery, providing fascinating stories for our travel memoirs.
Rolf Potts shares his own experience and insights while offering skill-improving input on each participant’s travel memoir—be it a newly formed idea, a collection of notes, or a finished essay. Mornings are spent in the classroom enjoying informal lectures, group discussions, and review is of work brought to the workshop, as well as reading daily generative writing assignments. Afternoons are set aside to reflect and write while experiencing vibrant and stimulating San Miguel de Allende. Participants engage in one-one-one sessions with Rolf during the course of the week.
Spend five days honing your keen eye, refining your attentive ear, and indulging your spirit, hungry to make meaningful connections between the world outside and the one within.
Additional Information
WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
This program is open to writers of all levels.
SPECIAL NOTES:
Enrollment for this San Miguel workshop is limited to 14 participants. Visit the San Miguel General Information on our website for details on accommodations, meals, transportation, and more.
View updated Payment, Refund, Withdrawal, and Transfer Policies for this 2019 International Program.
ACCOMMODATIONS:
Accommodations at Hotel Posada de la Aldea are $415 per person, double accommodations for 6 nights, Sunday through Friday, (for couples taking workshops and friends traveling together) or $830 per person, single accommodations for 6 nights, Sunday through Friday. Additional nights at the hotel can be arranged for participants; please discuss needs with the Administration Office in Santa Fe.
PACKAGE PRICE INFO:
$2,295 (USD) includes tuition, breakfast Monday through Saturday, lunch Monday through Friday, final dinner on Friday, and location/materials fees if applicable to the class. Hotel accommodations are not included in the package price; see details above.
Rolf Potts has reported from more than sixty countries for the likes of National Geographic Traveler, The New Yorker, Slate.com, Outside Magazine, the New York Times Magazine, The Believer, The Guardian (U.K.), Sports Illustrated, National Public Radio, and the Travel Channel. His adventures have taken him across six continents, and include piloting a fishing boat 900 miles down the Laotian Mekong, hitchhiking across Eastern Europe, traversing Israel on foot, bicycling across Burma, driving a Land Rover across South America, and traveling around the world for six weeks with no luggage or bags of any kind.
Rolf has taught semester-long nonfiction writing courses at Penn and Yale. He is perhaps best known for promoting the ethic of independent travel, and his book on the subject, Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel, has been through twenty-six printings and translated into several foreign languages. His collection of literary travel essays, Marco Polo Didn’t Go There, won a 2009 Lowell Thomas Award from the Society of American Travel Writers, and became the first American-authored book to win Italy’s prestigious Chatwin Prize for travel writing. He has also co-written a travel-themed comic, and penned a volume about The Geto Boys for Bloomsbury Academic’s vaunted “33 1/3” series of music criticism. His newest book, Souvenir, will be published by Bloomsbury in March of 2018.
Website: rolfpotts.com
