Writing Retreats
Some of my richest writing has happened in rooms far from home — around shared tables, stories spilling into the air, writers reaching for the truth of their lives.
Learning, listening, laughing.
Discovering that writing in company can be its own kind of home.
I’ve joined and taught retreats in Guatemala, Lunenburg (Canada), Bali, and Australia — places that offered space, companionship and the quiet needed to go deeper on the page.
Bali
Blissful Bali (with Kerstin Pilz & Edwina Shaw)
Morning yoga in the warm jungle air.
Swimming under cool waterfalls after the heat of the day.
A table of women writing in the breeze, stories opening in the softness of being far from home.
I wrote a poem in Bali to remember the quiet and the tenderness of those days.
Guatemala
Write By The Lake (with Joyce Maynard)
An early-morning swim in the clear stillness of Lake Atitlán — volcanic shadows, cold water, a breath you hold without noticing.
Days of writing.
Nights of listening.
Women exploring their stories, each one deepening the next.
Lunenburg, Canada
Memoir Retreat (with Allegra Huston)
Fog rolling in from the harbour, fishing boats knocking gently in the morning quiet.
A small circle of women writing in sprints, reading aloud the truths that surprised us.
Something settled in me, being back in the country where my life began.
Mittagong, Australia
Deepening Your Work Through Revision (with Lee Koffman)
The joy and pain of revision — drafts pulled apart and re-stitched at a long oak table.
Eight writers shaping words into something steadier, truer.
Quiet time on my own, letting the work settle.
