Travel Stories in Granada, Spain
Applications are now open
A five-day, place-based
storytelling intensive
September 21-25, 2026
At a Glance
📍 Granada, Spain
🗓️ September 21–25, 2026
🧑🏫 Laura Porfirio, M.Ed.
💳 Tuition: $2,100
👥 Small cohort
Turn Travel into Story
Travel Stories in Granada is a five-day, beginner-friendly intensive for curious travelers and writers who want to transform experience into meaningful narrative. Through expert instruction and immersive encounters with place, participants learn to notice the moments that matter and explore how voice, structure, and reflection shape compelling stories.
Over the course of the workshop, participants generate new material, develop a focused draft, and revise it with thoughtful guidance and feedback. Each writer leaves with a polished short piece prepared for sharing at the final-night story salon, and a repeatable creative process for carrying future journeys onto the page.
What You'll Practice
In Granada
Notice Meaningful Moments
Strengthen your attention to place and identify the details, encounters, and experiences that hold the potential for story.
Draft and Revise
Generate new material, develop a complete draft, and refine your work through expert guidance, creative exercises, and constructive feedback.
Develop Voice and Structure
Explore how perspective, language, and narrative shape can transform lived experience into writing that feels focused and distinctly yours.
Share at the Story Salon
Polish a short piece and share it with the group at our low-pressure final-night salon.
Granada as the Classroom
Granada’s layered history, intricate architecture, daily rhythms, and cultural traditions make the city an ideal setting for writing rooted in observation, reflection, and place.
Three curated excursions take participants beyond the workshop room, generating new material and creating meaningful encounters to carry back to the page.
The experience includes:
✦ Three curriculum-connected excursions
✦ Guided exploration of Granada
✦ On-location observation and writing prompts
✦ Time to develop experiences into narrative
Meet Your Instructor
Laura Porfirio, M.Ed.
Laura Porfirio is a lifelong educator and storytelling coach with more than 30 years of experience in adult education, leadership training, curriculum design, and participatory learning. She helps people connect lived experience with story, uncover their strengths, and develop work with clarity, depth, and voice.
In Granada, Laura will guide participants from close observation through drafting, revision, and final presentation. Her collaborative, supportive teaching approach brings together experience, reflection, and craft. Laura is fluent in Spanish, Italian, and English.
Workshop facilitator: Wandering Writers Workshops founder Angela Orlando, Ph.D.
How Enrollment Works
Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis and are not competitive. The application helps us learn about your interests, understand your needs, and create a cohesive workshop group. If space is available and the workshop is a good fit, you’ll receive an invitation to enroll and reserve your seat with a $300 deposit.