Anthony Doerr’s favorite travel book is D.H. Lawrence’s Sea and Sardinia. According to Doerr, Lawrence “never stops paying attention, and in his prose everything—sunlight, a steamship, a vegetable market—becomes ecstatic.” He might’ve been talking about the writing of Mark Twain or Elizabeth Bishop or Cheryl Strayed—the explicit subject may be travel and/or place, but the real journey in great travel writing is always deeply personal. In this multi-genre, generative, month-long workshop, we’ll read favorite travel books in a variety of genres and present new writing which may take the form of creative nonfiction, fiction, or poetry. We’ll critique as fellow travelers, in search of the ecstatic.