to Costa Rica Writers' Retreats at Docelunas 4-star resort, an eco-friendly, tranquil oasis on Costa Rica's Pacific coast. Our writers' retreat will reawaken your senses and creativity. Write, listen to one another read aloud, and give feedback underneath a palm thatched roof, with the aromas of your next meal prepared by a master chef infusing the air. Sit on your private porch and work on that novel chapter you've been struggling with all winter. Climb the steps to the yoga studio overlooking the gardens and rejeuvante with a bellydance or yoga class; Docelunas has the only certified Bikram yoga studio at a hotel in the world. Give yourself the gift of space and your imagination the recharge of an environment teeming with artistic stimulation: scarlet macaws, toucans, and blue butterflies.
Week-long retreats taking place in May and June of 2009 will be led by Vanessa Blakeslee, Vermont College MFA in Writing graduate and Amherst Writers & Artists Affiliate. The retreat team will include Vermont College faculty Robin Hemley, Xu Xi and Sue Silverman. Writers working in all genres and from all levels of experience are welcome. Several times a day we will come together to write from exercises offered which follow the Amherst Writers workshop method (AWA), as well as produce new work in themed workshops throughout the week. Craft talks will be given on several evenings after dinner. Daily breaks allow for optional excursions to beautiful Punta Leona beach, Carara National Park, and Playa Hermosa. Your time is your own to write, relax, explore, reconnect with others...and yourself. Join us.
Vanessa Blakeslee
Sue Silverman
Xu Xi
Robin Hemley
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. ~Anaïs Nin
The First Annual Writers' Holiday in the Tropics for Students and Alumni of Graduate Writing Programs opens Nov. 1st, 2008. No entry fee. Enter online to win a one-week Costa Rica Writers' Retreat in 2009!
