Registration for the 27th Annual Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway is now open!
This supportive, participant-focused writers’ conference will take place January 14-18, 2021. Here are some of the things we’re most excited about this year.
Featured Reader
We’re thrilled that award-winning poet Ross Gay will join us as a Featured Reader. We look forward to welcoming him on Sunday, January 17 for an intimate reading and Q&A session exclusively for Winter Getaway participants. A note for re-PETERs: Ross will not be leading workshops, just visiting for a fun night.
New Faculty
In addition to reuniting some of our long-standing Getaway faculty, we have new faculty to welcome:
Poets
Prose writers
Dilruba Ahmed – Cameron Barnett – Celeste Doaks
Cynthia Dewi Oka – Emma Copley Eisenberg – Jade Jones
New Workshops
We’re offering 4 new writing workshops in 2021:
1) Writing the Novel You Want to Read – led by Joe Costal
This workshop will provide a supportive, inspiring space for writing the novel you know needs to be written. Read more.
2) Reimagining the Political: A Fiction Workshop – led by Jade Jones
In this workshop, we will broaden our idea of what “political” writing means. Read more.
3) The Next Step: A Memoir Workshop – led by Paul Lisicky
You’ve already given shape to the key moments in your autobiographical narrative, but now what? Read more.
4) From Fact to Story: A Longform Nonfiction Workshop – led by Emma Copley Eisenberg
In this supportive, intensive workshop, you will learn how to turn a real event, person, cultural phenomenon, piece of media or element of the natural world into a well-crafted work of nonfiction told in a unique and urgent voice—your own. Read more.
We’re also bringing back old favorites:
The Heart and Craft of Memoir – led by Anndee Hochman
Transform significant life experiences and important moments into well-crafted literary prose. Read more.
Observe, Imagine, Recreate: A Creative Nonfiction Workshop – led by Amanda Morris
In this supportive workshop, we will work on exercises designed to tap into our memories, experiences and ideas, practice new storytelling techniques and learn how fictional tools help the creative nonfiction writer. Read more.
And we’re offering add-on workshops to boost your creative spirit before the Getaway even begins.
Poetry Warm-up: A Pre-Getaway Workshop – led by Luray Gross
Join us for a supportive, generative pre-Getaway session that will introduce you to or refresh you on poetry basics like diction, structure, sound and more. Read more.
Feedback Intensive Workshops in Poetry and Prose – led by Barbara Daniels and Amanda Morris
In these supportive, critique-centered workshops, you will share a work-in-progress and receive thoughtful, practical suggestions from your workshop leader and fellow participants to strengthen your piece. Read more.
New Tutorial Format
This year, all tutorials will be 40 minutes in length and take place the weekend after the Winter Getaway. See details.
We look forward to seeing you in January.
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