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  • Single w/ensuite Oceanfront – CAD $3,959.00
  • Single w/ensuite – CAD $3,679.00
  • Single w/shared bathroom – CAD $3,084.00
  • Couple w/ensuite Oceanfront – CAD $5,937.00
  • Couple w/ensuite – CAD $5,384.00
  • Couple w/shared bathroom – CAD $4,831.00
  • Twin w/ensuite oceanfront – CAD $2,044.50
  • Twin w/ensuite – CAD $2,692.00
  • Twin w/shared bathroom – CAD $2,412.00
  • Three-share w/shared bathroom – CAD $2,125.00
  • Women Dorm – CAD $1,782.00
  • Male Dorm – CAD $1,782.00
  • Mixed Dorm – CAD $1,782.00
  • Tent Site Single – CAD $1,747.00
  • Tent Site Couple – CAD $3,144.00
  • Commuter – CAD $1,502.00
    • (All prices include CAD $1,327.00 base amount)

Date & Time Details:
Starts with dinner on May 15
Ends with lunch on May 22
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Location: Cortes Island

Tuition: $725 CAD

Campus Rates: Campus rates include accommodations, meals, Hollyhock activities, use of hot tubs and campus facilities (does not include tuition). Click here for details.

Scholarships: Due to high demand, we are no longer able to accept scholarship applications for this program.

Health & Safety: Learn more about our Covid-19 policies and procedures here.

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Tapping the Stream: A Spring Writing Retreat

With Shaena Lambert and Betsy Warland

May 15 - 22, 2022

Program is fully booked

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. This unique retreat combines self-directed writing time, a one-on-one session with Betsy or Shaena and nightly fire-side conversations about craft and the writing life.

Writers should be working on a project, or fully ready to dive in,  in order to maximize their use of this deep dive retreat.

Please note that participants will be asked to send a sample of their work; fiction, non-fiction, story, or memoir, as well as a brief (3 paragraph) description of the work as a whole. Shaena and Betsy will read these in advance. Instructions will follow registration.

Terms & Conditions

You may find our terms & conditions here.

Health & Safety

Learn more about Hollyhock’s current health & safety policies here.

Presenters

Shaena Lambert
Shaena Lambert is an award-winning fiction writer, author of four books, most recently Petra (Random House Canada, 2020). Her other works are Oh, My Darling, Radiance and The Falling Woman. She has mentored writers and taught writing for over 15 years at some of Canada’s finest writing schools, including The Humber School for Writers and The Writers’…
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Betsy Warland
Betsy Warland has published 14 books of poetry, creative nonfiction, and lyric prose including her best-selling 2010 book of essays on writing, Breathing the Page—Reading the Act of Writing. In 2023, a second edition of Breathing the Page will include nine new essays and be published by Cormorant Books, Toronto. In 2022,…
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