Hi, I’m Bretlott Writing,
the founder of A Bret
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Bret Lott is the internationally bestselling author of fourteen books: eight novels, three story collections and three memoirs. His novel Jewel was an Oprah Book Club pick and was made into a film starring Cicely Tyson and Farrah Fawcett. He’s been teaching writing for nearly four decades at the College of Charleston, and has led workshops and retreats all over the United States as well as in Italy, France, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Bahrain and Israel.
He has spoken on Flannery O’Connor at The White House, served on the National Council on the Arts, and was a Senior American Scholar and writer in residence at Bar-Ilan University in Tel Aviv. His work has been translated into seven languages.
Melanie Lott Is The Real Brains Behind The Outfit And Serves As The Diretrice Of The Tuscany Writing Retreat.
She and Bret have been married for 44 years now, and she has been his first reader—and first critic—since the two began dating and Bret shared a short story he’d written in an effort to impress her. When she returned it to him, gave a small rueful laugh and slowly shook her head at the failure in her hands, he knew he was in love: she was honest with him, and has remained so through all these years. Her background in business, having worked with architects in historic Charleston, the safe water nonprofit organization Water Mission, and alongside engineers and artists alike makes her especially set for helping retreaters as they move toward and then settle in to this very special week in Tuscany.