Renew yourself and reconnect with your own creativity, whether you are a practicing writer, closet writer, or as-yet-to-pick-up-the-pen writer! The techniques and prompts we’ll use will spur your imagination, and can be used to create nonfiction, fiction, and/or poetry—the choice is yours.
The Coastal Writing Retreat includes writing sessions at a spacious, private location one mile from the Inn, two nights’ lodging, two breakfasts and Saturday lunch.
Want to extend your retreat? If you’d like to stay another day to write, or to just enjoy the beach, the Inn is offering Coastal Writing Retreat participants the opportunity to stay Sunday night at half price.
WHERE: The Sunset Inn, 9 North Shore Dr., Sunset Beach, NC 2846
WHEN: Friday, November 11th – Sunday, November 13th, 2022
COST: $528 (hotel tax and Saturday dinner at a local restaurant not included)
TO REGISTER: Contact the Sunset Inn at 888.575.1001 or 910.575.1000 (if you would like to handpick your room, view your choices here first, then call). Because the
Inn is holding rooms for you, our participants, they are blocked off as unavailable online. Register soon by phone – this is a popular event and space is limited.
*Also, please let the Inn know when you call if you are interested in staying Sunday night at half price. The Inn will hold your reservation with a credit card.
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THE NURTURING NATURE OF WORDS—
AND OUR WORLD
Reconnect with the natural world through the words of writers who invite us into a reciprocal, healing relationship with it, including Henry David Thoreau, Mary Oliver, Wendell Berry, and Robin Wall Kimmerer. We'll use passages of their works to inspire writing about our own experiences with nature, and to deepen our appreciation for its gifts. We'll also explore a number of fun,
easy methods to help your words flow, whatever your level of writing experience.
COST: $119
WHERE: Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, NY
WHEN: Monday - Thursday, August 8 -11, 3:30 - 5:30
p.m.
TO REGISTER: Click here.
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WRITING OUR OWN PROFILES IN COURAGE
When have you experienced courage—your own, or anyone else's? What was its source? How can we become more courageous? Come explore these questions, and others, through holistic, whole-brain methods of writing that will open your mind, heart, and spirit to your own growth, and to our human potential to keep
growing. Ideal for those interested in expanding their writing and their relationship to self, others and the world—for personal expression or publication.
COST: $119
WHERE: Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, NY
WHEN: Monday - Thursday, August 15 -18, 3:30 - 5:30
p.m.
TO REGISTER: Click here.
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