Tapping the Stream: A Spring Writing Retreat
With Shaena Lambert and Betsy Warland
May 21 - 28, 2023
Cortes Island
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Tapping the Stream is a 7-day retreat - free from interruption - to explore the direction of a work in progress, as well as to foster creativity through community with other writers.
Seriously Funny: The Magic of Humour in Storytelling
With Janelle Hanchett and Lisa Page Rosenberg
June 11 - 16, 2023
Cortes Island
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Let’s explore the transformative power of humour in storytelling. What makes a character funny? What do we mean by “humour = tragedy + time?” How (and why) do we laugh at the human condition in a way that deepens meaning? In every genre, nuanced writing uses humour to create three-dimensional…
Drawing Towards the Earth: Making Journals and Self Portraits for Life
With S. Portico Bowman
July 19 - 23, 2023
Cortes Island
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Learn how to draw and make art with natural earth elements provided by nature. We will make paper with abaca, bast and stock from the Hollyhock garden. We will cook our own vine charcoal, and take this to the paper, or twigs and tools to the beach for more performative…
Writing to Awaken: Memoir as a Path of Healing
With Mark Matousek
August 11 - 16, 2023
Cortes Island
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This transformational five-day program uses personal writing as a path of self-discovery, authenticity, and spiritual growth.
A Secret Garden: Writing Childhood Memories
With Caroline Adderson and Kathy Page
September 17 - 22, 2023
Cortes Island
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“Anybody who has survived childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.” - Flannery O’Connor No matter who we are, we have this in common: we were all children once. It is during this universal stage of life that we are the most open…
Writing with Ghosts: The Power of Haunted Writing
With Hiromi Goto and Kyo Maclear
October 1 - 6, 2023
Cortes Island
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“It seems that the essential impulse in working at all is to rehaunt your own house, or to allow what haunts you to have a voice, to chart what is deeply private and etched on the soul, and find form and structure for it.” —Colm Toibin What haunts you? What…