Join an inspiring workshop leader and a small group of
selected writers who will gather in Andros from all over the
globe to work on their stories, read and critique each
others’ writing. Write by the Sea at the AEGEAN ARTS CIRCLE
WRITING WORKSHOPS in Andros
Andros is a quiet Cycladic island with little tourism making
it an ideal place to slow down, get away from the daily
grind to focus on new writing. Workshops are intensive and
provide for a trusting space for published and aspiring
writers to unfold their new stories. Aegean Arts Circle
keeps each workshop small, working with award winning
instructors who are committed to writing and nurturing the
participants who join to work in these writing groups.
To be accepted, please submit a writing sample and/or a
brief description of a writing project you want to work on
while in Andros. The goal is to produce new work and to
learn from talented,
inspirational workshop leaders who are masters at their
craft. We work in a group each morning and then break up to
have the rest of the day free until we meet up in the
evening for our group dinners held on the restaurant veranda
overlooking the sea. There is private time to write and
refine your writing. Like last year we offer writing retreat
days to be added on before or after each workshop if you
want to spend more time in Andros.

Aegean Arts Circle Writing Workshop
with KATHRYN “KITSI” WATTERSON
May 27th to June 6th, 2020
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If you would like more information about this year’s
workshops, retreats and scholarship opportunities, please
write to
AAC
at:
amaliamelis@gmail.com
or
amalia@aegeanartscircle.com
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Aegean Arts Circle would not exist if it did not have the
help of some very generous people who have given their time
and talent. I am grateful to Roy Cherris, Panagiotis
Spiropoulos, Argyris Paspalas, George and Frances Melis and
my daughter Anna, for helping me build AAC from
dream to reality.
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Amalia Melis Director, Aegean Arts Circle
Amalia Melis is a journalist, essayist, and fiction writer
who was born and raised in New York. She is the founder and
organizer of the
Aegean Arts Circle writing
workshops
held in Andros, Greece each summer since 2003.
Her writing has been published in
Glimmer Train, Guernica, Elle, Ms., Michigan Quarterly
Review,
and
KYSO Flash,
as well as in
Ducts Magazine, Hunterdon County Democrat, Leaders, National
Public Television, Palm Beach Post, Poet & Critic,
Sojourner, The ART Magazine,
and
The Melbourne Age Newspaper,
among others. She has published interviews with two Pulitzer
Prize-winning authors, Michael Cunningham and Frank McCourt.
“Immigrant Daughter,” her first short story, won second
place in Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Writers
in 2002, and two of her other stories were finalists in 2005
and 2007. Her first novel is available for publication, and
she’s at work on a hybrid lyrical non-fiction book about
loss.
Amalia is also an artist, whose assemblage sculptures have
appeared in group art exhibits in the U.S., Germany, and
Greece.