RETREATS

Two times a year, full day writing workshops are held in different locations in southern Rhode Island. In the workshops we will use salt pond, coastal marsh and upland forest to spark imagination, and move towards story.

 

Each workshop offers a quiet setting to begin the writing process. For beginning writers these day-long programs are an opportunity to spend a day experimenting with the language of words. For advanced writers, here is a day away from distraction to experiment or work deeply in a given area of interest.

 

Participants gather in the morning for a light breakfast before joining in a short walk in which water, field and forest become prompts. We will then return to write. Following lunch, we will (weather permitting) go further afield, and return again to our writing headquarters to put thoughts to paper.

 

 

May:  Kimball Wildlife Refuge, Charlestown, Rhode Island. Situated on Wachaug Pond, this coastal forest community strides the remains of a glacial moraine and is home to many native plants and shrubs, including princess pine, mountain laurel and red maple.

 

 

September: Trustom Wildlife Refuge, Matunuck, Rhode Island. A coastal ecosystem that includes a salt pond, salt marsh, coastal upland, barrier beach and coastal forest.