Happy holidays from Writer Abroad

Disentis, Switzerland
(where you should use the fourth Christmas greeting listed!)

Joyeux Noel

Fröhliche Weihnachten

Buone Feste Natalizie

Legreivlas fiastas da Nadal e bien niev onn!

A very Merry Christmas to fellow expat writers in Switzerland and around the world.

Zurich Writers Workshop: Save the Date

Save the date!

Writer Abroad is busy planning the fifth annual Zurich Writers Workshop, which will be held May 23-25, 2014 in Zurich, Switzerland. More details will follow. To find out more, join the mailing list.

International Writing Workshops for 2014

Looking for an excuse to visit the Netherlands, Switzerland, or Iceland? Then the following writing workshops and conferences may be of interest:

Nuance Words’ Writing 4 Young People workshop will be held on January 25 in Zurich. Places are still available.

Amal Chatterjee and Jane Draycott will lead another Amsterdam Creative Writing Weekend focusing on prose and poetry from January 31-February 2, 2014.

The ninth Geneva Writers Conference will be held January 31-February 2, 2014 in Geneva. Writers from around the world are welcome to attend a weekend of workshops and panels led by well-known authors, agents, editors, and publishers.

The Iceland Writers Retreat will be held April 9-13, 2014 in Reykjavik. A combination of workshops with high-profile writers, touring, and writing time are included. The theme is travel and journeys.

Finally, the fifth annual Zurich Writers Workshop will be held in Spring 2014. Stay tuned or join the mailing list to be the first to find out the details.

Anyone else have workshops of interest for Spring 2014? Leave a comment.