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We held our first writing workshop in Bali, Indonesia, in 2015: a month of Bahasa Indonesia, late-night warung feasts, waterfall swims, fin chops, gamelan lessons, scooter wobbles, canang sari weaving, dog pats, Bintang sips and volcano hikes. 

Since then, we’ve run week and month-long programs in Tokyo, Japan; all across Spain; and a bunch of places in Australia: Gimuy / Cairns, Minjerribah / Stradbroke Island, nipaluna / Hobart and Byron Bay on Arakwal Bundjulung Country.

With deep respect for the local communities in the places we travel and a desire to tread as lightly as possible, we seek to embody ethical, sustainable practices in all that we do.

Upcoming Programs

Freelancing, Indie Publishing + Media Justice

A writing workshop in
Tokyo, Japan

Foraging, Fermenting + Seasonal Cooking

An edible retreat in
Takigahara, Japan

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Retreat Schedule

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We held our first writing workshop in Bali, Indonesia, in 2015: a month of Bahasa Indonesia, late-night warung feasts, waterfall swims, fin chops, gamelan lessons, scooter wobbles, canang sari weaving, dog pats, Bintang sips and volcano hikes. 

Since then, we’ve run week and month-long programs in Tokyo, Japan; all across Spain; and a bunch of places in Australia: Gimuy / Cairns, Minjerribah / Stradbroke Island, nipaluna / Hobart and Byron Bay on Arakwal Bundjulung Country.

With deep respect for the local communities in the places we travel and a desire to tread as lightly as possible, we seek to embody ethical, sustainable practices in all that we do.

An image from one of our Bali writing workshops that shows two students dressed in raincoats and farm hats laughing at each other as they clutch a basket of vegetables they have picked.

Partners

In all countries we travel to, we work with locally-owned language schools; First Nations cultural educators; locally-owned, family-run accommodation providers; local transport workers and local creatives.

Read our workshop terms and conditions.

Astray is a storytelling project centred on travel, place, culture and identity.

We’re run by a team of writers who mostly live, work and play in nipaluna / Hobart. With reverence, we acknowledge the Tasmanian Aboriginal people as the traditional and ongoing custodians of trouwunna / lutruwita / Tasmania: land that was stolen and never ceded. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging.