SOTTERRANEA

A 6-Day Writing Immersion and Transformative Journey in Palermo Sicily led by MaryBeth Bonfiglio & Lisa Marie Basile

From June 5—June 11 we will gather as an intimate group in the subterranean & poetic city of Palermo, Sicily to explore, experience, and write the sensuality of life and death.

This writing immersion is your portal to uncover the story within the story—a journey into the cave of your creative self, shaped and informed by this particular place. 

Palermo—as a city of art and wildness and bodies flowing like lava—holds space for your words, offering a sanctuary for expression: prose, poetry, essays, lists, letters, elegies, ancestral downloads, or fragments of thought splashed across watercolor paper with black ink. 

But while Palermo is both a container and a muse, we invite you to explore life, death, and the sensual in whatever way the deeper stories or ideas or feelings emerge through you—be it a poem of grief or a story of personal transformation. Palermo is a mirror, reflecting back at you the very things you seek.

Palermo is many layers — and so are you. 

Sotterranea is not just a writing retreat. Yes, it is about place, but it’s mostly about you. It is a sensual, somatic, and spiritual experience. It is a creative community encounter.

REGISTER & LEARN ALL ABOUT IT HERE.