Archive - Take World

A last-minute coffee press trip to Jamaica

How press trips work and how I use them to enhance my travels

Mar 10 •

GEORGINA LAWTON

February 2025

Some notes on rejection

I hate talking about my failings in work and love but I'm trying to get better at it!

Feb 18 •

GEORGINA LAWTON

January 2025

How to read more this year

I asked my agent and friends who read for work how we can all read more, seeing as it helps with depression and that

Jan 17 •

GEORGINA LAWTON

I moved house three times in 2024 and it was hell

Moving and travelling stirs up the same mixed emotions as the start of a new year

Jan 1 •

GEORGINA LAWTON

December 2024

How to launch your own retreat

Lessons and learnings after four successful writing retreats in Portugal

Dec 17, 2024 •

GEORGINA LAWTON

Zanzibar, ethical press trips and photographing without consent

Being a black writer on a press trip to East Africa is an experience in an of itself.

Dec 3, 2024 •

GEORGINA LAWTON

September 2023

Come write in the Portuguese country-side with me

Reviewing the realties of putting together a full-scale 4-day writing retreat - and planning the next one!

Sep 24, 2023 •

GEORGINA LAWTON

January 2023

Take World writing retreats, the Deep South and Jamaica

Do nothing without intention in 2023. Travel included.

Jan 30, 2023 •

GEORGINA LAWTON

December 2022

Why Lisbon is great for writers

Bookstores, great coffee - and my meet-up

Dec 7, 2022 •

GEORGINA LAWTON

November 2022

15 life lessons I've learned by 30

On getting older and forgoing expectations as a route to contentedness.

Nov 20, 2022 •

GEORGINA LAWTON

September 2022

London vs Lisbon: the losses and the gains of moving abroad

Weighing up the cost of big life decisions

Sep 19, 2022 •

GEORGINA LAWTON

May 2022

This is Take World, a newsletter mainly about writing, travel (Lisbon, London and beyond) and freelancing.

May 20, 2022 •

GEORGINA LAWTON

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