Walk, Write, Seek: A Writer's Pilgrimage
April 24-27, 2025
Join us for a four-day workshop, in poetry and memoir, at the Anglican Pilgrim Centre in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Participants will stay at Casa Anglicana.
The workshops will be taught by Spencer Reece and Ralph James Savarese. Limited to 6 participants.
Workshop cost is $1,000, which includes bed and breakfast at Casa Anglicana (5 nights, beginning April 23). Participants are each responsible for their own travel and additional meals while in Spain. All proceeds benefit the Anglican Pilgrim Centre in Santiago which runs Casa Anglicana.
The Rev. Canon Spencer Reece is Rector of St. Paul's Church in Wickford, Rhode Island. He graduated from Wesleyan University where he studied “verse-writing” with Annie Dillard. A Guggenheim Fellow, long-list nominee for the National Book Award, Reece’s first manuscript, The Clerk’s Tale, was selected by Nobel Laureate Louise Glück. Father Spencer returned to seminary at Berkeley, Yale, in mid-life and was ordained to the priesthood in 2011. He was awarded a Fulbright to teach poetry at Our Little Roses, an orphanage for abandoned and abused girls in San Pedro, Sula, Honduras. His third book of poems Acts was published by FSG in May of 2024. More about Spencer Reece can be found HERE.
Ralph James Savarese graduated from Wesleyan University where he studied “verse writing” with Annie Dillard. He is the author of Reasonable People: A Memoir of Autism and Adoption, which Newsweek called “a real-life love story and an urgent manifesto for the rights of people with neurological disabilities,” and See It Feelingly: Classic Novels, Autistic Readers and the Schooling of a No-Good English Professor. He has twice received “notable essay” distinction in the Best American Essays series. His fourth poetry collection, Never Make Them Cry: Classrooms and Coffins, will appear in late 2024. His work has been published in American Poetry Review, Brevity, Fourth Genre, New England Review, Ploughshares, Sewanee Review, and Threepenny Review. He teaches at Grinnell College in Iowa. More about Ralph James Savarese can be found HERE.
Three-step registration:
1. Complete the form below, through to the shopping cart for final payment. (Note: in the phone number space marked “country,” this refers to the unique country code. For the United States, type +1, for the UK, type +44, etc.).
2. After reserving your space for the workshop, please reserve your room at Casa Anglicana (included in the registration cost) directly with the house manager Felipe Martínez Acuña through email casanglicana@gmail.com, or telephone or Whatsapp at +34 638 776 638.
3. Get ready to have an unforgettable experience at Casa Anglicana in Santiago de Compostela.
Walk, Write, Seek: A Writer's Pilgrimage
April 24-27, 2025
Join us for a four-day workshop, in poetry and memoir, at the Anglican Pilgrim Centre in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Participants will stay at Casa Anglicana.
The workshops will be taught by Spencer Reece and Ralph James Savarese. Limited to 6 participants.
Workshop cost is $1,000, which includes bed and breakfast at Casa Anglicana (5 nights, beginning April 23). Participants are each responsible for their own travel and additional meals while in Spain. All proceeds benefit the Anglican Pilgrim Centre in Santiago which runs Casa Anglicana.
The Rev. Canon Spencer Reece is Rector of St. Paul's Church in Wickford, Rhode Island. He graduated from Wesleyan University where he studied “verse-writing” with Annie Dillard. A Guggenheim Fellow, long-list nominee for the National Book Award, Reece’s first manuscript, The Clerk’s Tale, was selected by Nobel Laureate Louise Glück. Father Spencer returned to seminary at Berkeley, Yale, in mid-life and was ordained to the priesthood in 2011. He was awarded a Fulbright to teach poetry at Our Little Roses, an orphanage for abandoned and abused girls in San Pedro, Sula, Honduras. His third book of poems Acts was published by FSG in May of 2024. More about Spencer Reece can be found HERE.
Ralph James Savarese graduated from Wesleyan University where he studied “verse writing” with Annie Dillard. He is the author of Reasonable People: A Memoir of Autism and Adoption, which Newsweek called “a real-life love story and an urgent manifesto for the rights of people with neurological disabilities,” and See It Feelingly: Classic Novels, Autistic Readers and the Schooling of a No-Good English Professor. He has twice received “notable essay” distinction in the Best American Essays series. His fourth poetry collection, Never Make Them Cry: Classrooms and Coffins, will appear in late 2024. His work has been published in American Poetry Review, Brevity, Fourth Genre, New England Review, Ploughshares, Sewanee Review, and Threepenny Review. He teaches at Grinnell College in Iowa. More about Ralph James Savarese can be found HERE.
Three-step registration:
1. Complete the form below, through to the shopping cart for final payment. (Note: in the phone number space marked “country,” this refers to the unique country code. For the United States, type +1, for the UK, type +44, etc.).
2. After reserving your space for the workshop, please reserve your room at Casa Anglicana (included in the registration cost) directly with the house manager Felipe Martínez Acuña through email casanglicana@gmail.com, or telephone or Whatsapp at +34 638 776 638.
3. Get ready to have an unforgettable experience at Casa Anglicana in Santiago de Compostela.