Exciting Update: WD Writing Retreat to Florence & Tuscany 2025!
Exciting things are afoot with the Writer’s Digest Writing Retreat to Florence + Tuscany in May 2025!
The trip has officially been confirmed to happen May 3, 2025 – May 10, 2025, but a space has opened up! If you’ve been on the fence about signing up, now’s your best opportunity. We’re offering $400 off the deposit amount for anyone who signs up for the trip between now and the end of February.
Why are we so excited about this writing retreat? We planned it with the goal of making it beneficial for as many types of writers as possible by doing the following:
- WD editors right there (and writing there) with you. Have questions about the writing project you’re working on? No matter the category, the WD editorial hosts, Editor-in-Chief Amy Jones and Senior Editor Robert Lee Brewer, will be at the ready to help. After we have the complete roster of retreat attendees, we’ll be able to survey the group about how to tailor this writing time to your specific needs.
- Maybe it’s reading and offering feedback about the first 10–20 pages of your book, or
- doing an AMA session about the publishing industry.
- Perhaps it’s setting up writing exercises or writing sprints, or
- even having an accountability partner on the trip to make sure you’re truly writing.
We’ll be catering to the group who signs up.
[Have a question about this retreat? Join Amy Jones and Robert Lee Brewer for a free informational Zoom Q&A on Tuesday, February 18, 2025, at 12:30 pm (ET). Click here to register!]
- It’s the perfect combination of inspirational sightseeing and dedicated writing time. We’ll spend 3.5 days exploring the Renaissance city of Florence, walking in the footsteps of writers like Dante, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Mary McCarthy, not to mention artists like da Vinci, Michelangelo, Donatello—the list goes on and on. While much of the time will be with the group and our local tour guide, there will be time to sit in the gardens, along the Arno River, or at the hotel’s rooftop bar/ristorante overlooking the skyline and write. Don’t worry, we’ve also built in a bit of free time for things like seeing something on your personal bucket list, grabbing a handmade journal at a local stationery shop, or visiting the English bookshop, Paperback Exchange.
- Plus, there’s exciting news about our itinerary. The Vasari Corridor—the hidden in plain sight passageway connecting the Uffizi Gallery on one side of the river to the Palazzo Pitti on the other—has officially reopened! After closing in 2016 for preservation and renovations and multiple delays in reopening, the corridor built by Giorgio Vasari in 1565 is now open to small tour groups just like ours.
- Finally, we’ll spend 2.5 days at a stunning Tuscan villa where you get to focus entirely on the writing that’s important to you in the way that is most effective for you. If you write better on your own but never would’ve made the time to do so at home or on another sightseeing trip, choose a quiet spot on the villa grounds and let the words flow. On the other hand, maybe you’re the kind of writer who likes to be around other writers—letting the clack of their keyboards or the scratch of their pen inspire you to get more words on your own page.
Join WD on the trip of a lifetime!
[Have a question about this retreat? Join Amy Jones and Robert Lee Brewer for a free informational Zoom Q&A on Tuesday, February 18, 2025, at 12:30 pm (ET). Click here to register!]
Email any questions about the details of this trip to writersdigestretreats@aimmedia.com.
