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Wellness and Writing Retreats

Interview for Joseph Scapellato’s Senior Portfolio Class at Susquehanna

Joe Scapellato interviewed me for the class he’s teaching. He asked some very interesting questions pertinent to senior-year undergraduate English – Creative Writing majors. Here are the results of the interview: 1. Okay, let’s talk about your senior year of undergrad. Do you remember how you were feeling? Where did you think you were headed? [...]

Autumn Wellness and Writing Retreat in Italy – October

You are invited to our two-week autumn retreat at Casa della Pace, a delightful estate featuring a renovated stone church (now a yoga studio) and delicious local vegetarian cuisine prepared with great care. Workshops will be given for the following topics: haiku and the poetry of attention energized scenes and short prose self-development, personal assessment [...]

Wellness and Writing Retreat in Italy this October

Writing and Wellness Retreat in Italy – Casa della Pace: October 16-30, 2010 Take a moment to imagine the quiet voluptuousness of a peaceful estate in the Italian hills. Now picture spending two weeks there, doing yoga, enjoying the wildlife, and enjoying a bit of local wine. You are invited to our two-week autumn retreat [...]

What is Environmental Breath and How Does It Help Creativity?

Click here for more information on Wellness and Writing Retreats in Italy Imagine that it is early morning in late summer and you are standing out on a beach watching the sunrise. The wind is calm and there is only the distant sound of slowly-crashing waves. Such a scene is archetypally serene and tranquil. What [...]

Ecotherapy, Ecopsychology, Sustainability, Centenarians and New Creative Nature Writing

Visit http://summerwritingretreat.com for more information on our two-week creative writing and wellness workshop in Italy We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey. – John Hope Franklin Your individual writing project can take the [...]

Learning from the environment

I don’t know a single creative writer who doesn’t love to travel. Every creative writer I know benefits from a change of scenery. It’s the creative thing to do. A writer really has two important environments of which to be mindful: the wild nature of the written page their external environment Both of these deserve [...]

Summer Writing/Wellness Retreat in Italy

Writers and lovers of Italy, Our summer retreat deadline is rapidly approaching and we still have a few openings! The wellness/creative writing retreat will run from June 13-26 in Italy. Imagine this: You’re in Italy, surrounded by the quiet voluptuousness of an untouched estate in the Umbrian hills. Now imagine spending two weeks basking in [...]

Overcoming the Classroom

Most of us learned to write in a classroom. We sat and did our work, year after year, and gradually our writing improved. The rest of life is very different from a classroom, and despite our teachers’ best intentions, many of us picked up some bad writing habits along the way. These bad habits (like [...]

Writing Immersion endorsed by Robert Boswell

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What’s behind the retreat, part 2

If you aren’t familiar with the different modes of writing you’ll engage in when on the retreat, check out the About the Program page on summerwritingretreat.com for more information. I hope the program descriptions hook you, and that you’re eager to try out an innovative approach to invigorate your project, whether you are interested in [...]

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