Spend a week writing and creating with Nadine Kenney Johnstone, Molly Wizenberg, and Hallie Bateman in the Cabo de Gata landscape, where sun, stone, and sea sharpen the senses and bring memory close to the surface. Dig into flash form and micro-memoir, learning what makes short personal work land with clarity and emotional weight. Learn how words and images can work together, and capture the trip itself through micro-memoirs in both visual and written form. 

Throughout the week, enjoy readings and Q&A over drinks, where Nadine, Molly, and Hallie sit in the hot seat and talk craft, process, publishing, and the realities of keeping work moving forward. Keep a sketchbook companion with you throughout the retreat, filling it with quick drawings, daily journal comics, messy thoughts, and snapshots of experience.

Walk the Cabo de Gata coastline and collect sensory detail that turns into a scene: heat on skin, grit in the air, and the way light shifts on water until it changes what you remember. Take a tour of Almería and the historic Alcazaba, letting its layered walls, courtyards, and vantage points become a living lesson in transformation and what history leaves behind. Keep returning to your notebook, translating place into language that feels lived-in rather than observed.

Relax in your private room surrounded by cacti, tiled paths, and sweeping views of the horizon. Share meals together each day, linger over dinner and conversation after workshop hours. Leave with a portfolio of micro memoirs and a sketch journal of your time in Spain.

Almeria, Spain
Oct 26-Nov 2, 2026