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Registration for the Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway
January 16-19, 2026
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Seaview Hotel, Atlantic City area
Winter Getaway » Blog » Getaway Reads

Getaway Reads 2020: A personal essay by Anndee Hochman

September 27, 2019 BY Taylor Coyle

Murphy Writing of Stockton University Presents This entry is part of Getaway Reads, an e-mail series that features the writing of the Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway faculty. . On Yom Kippur, I think of my grandmother and the sweaters I didn't love enough by Anndee Hochman My Bubbie, my mother's mother, was always chasing me with a flexible yellow tapeline in her hand. “Shayna punim. Shayna maidele.” Beautiful face, she said, even if I’d dabbed the wrong shade of cover-up over a huge, pubescent zit. Beautiful girl, even in ... Read More...

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Getaway Reads 2020: Two Poems by Peter E. Murphy

September 20, 2019 BY Murphy Writing Intern

  Murphy Writing of Stockton University Presents This entry is part of Getaway Reads, an e-mail series that features the writing of the Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway faculty.   Closing Time by Peter E. Murphy   The 24 hour bars in Atlantic City have three happy hours a day so I can pursue happiness whenever my shift lets out. I know the end is near when the cleaners appear to scrape gum from the gaudy carpets and drizzle disinfectant over urine dripped from the dicers who don’t want to lose their place at the table. Gullible ... Read More...

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New for the 2020 Winter Getaway

July 30, 2019 BY Taylor Coyle

Happy 26th, Getawayers! The 26th Annual Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway, a writers' conference near Atlantic City, NJ, will take place January 17-20, 2020. Here are some of the things we're most excited about:   Special Guests for 2020 We’re pleased to present our Special Guests for the 2020 Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway: Pulitzer Prize winner Yusef Komunyakaa, and Denise Duhamel. Yusef and Denise will both lead special sessions of the Advanced Poetry Workshop.      Workshops We’re offering 6 new writing workshops in ... Read More...

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We’re Back: The 2020 Getaway is Here

July 29, 2019 BY Peter Murphy

  Dear Murphy Writing Community, If you, like us, have a big ol’ hole in your heart where last year’s Getaway should have been, you’ll be thrilled to know that it will return this year better than ever. The 26th Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway will be held at the Seaview Hotel from January 17-20, 2020. Despite pining for the Getaway last year, we kept busy planning our other retreats and getaways, including our upcoming trips to Scotland and New Hampshire. We particularly loved seeing so many of you last winter at our New Year’s Writing ... Read More...

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Congratulations to our 2018 scholarship recipients!

December 20, 2017 BY Murphy Writing Intern

After considering 82 applications, the panel has made its decisions. There were many strong applications and it was a tough choice, but the following writers were selected. We look forward to getting to know them at Seaview.   Toni Brown Memorial Scholarship First Place - Lindsey Danis, a writer from Kingston, NY Lindsey Danis is Hudson Valley-based writer and recovering chef who attended Vassar College and received an MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College. She juggles freelance content marketing with working on novels about queers in the ... Read More...

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Getaway Reads 2018: Two Poems by Emari DiGiorgio

December 5, 2017 BY Murphy Writing Intern

Murphy Writing of Stockton University Presents This entry is part of Getaway Reads, an e-mail series curated by Marissa Luca that features the writing of the Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway faculty.   Playing the Husband by Emari DiGorgio When you were the husband, you kissed up my back, lips cresting each ridge of spine. When I was the husband, I traced your name—the only poem I knew— with pointer finger, then tongue, in the small frame your shoulder blades made. When you were the husband, I lay flat on my back and closed my eyes. ... Read More...

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Getaway Reads: Two Poems by Gregory Pardlo

October 26, 2017 BY Murphy Writing Intern

Murphy Writing of Stockton University Presents This entry is part of Getaway Reads, an e-mail series curated by Marissa Luca that features the writing of the Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway faculty.   Double Dutch by Gregory Pardlo The girls turning double-dutch bob & weave like boxers pulling punches, shadowing each other, sparring across the slack cord casting parabolas in the air. They whip quick as an infant’s pulse and the jumper, before she enters the winking, nods in time as if she has a notion to share, waiting her chance ... Read More...

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Getaway Reads 2018: Two Poems by Peter E. Murphy

September 22, 2017 BY Murphy Writing Intern

Murphy Writing of Stockton University Presents This entry is part of Getaway Reads, an e-mail series curated by Marissa Luca that features the writing of the Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway faculty.   Watching The Crucible in the Time of Trump at Theatr Newydd, Cardiff by Peter E. Murphy First of all, everyone is terrified. Is she going to fly again? I hear she flies. The word “lies” lies inside of flies, inside of families. A clink of good women are shackled together, away from their families because of lies. No president in ... Read More...

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New for the 2018 Winter Getaway

September 5, 2017 BY Taylor Coyle

Happy 25th, Getawayers! The 25th Annual Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway, a writers' conference near Atlantic City, NJ, will take place January 12-15, 2018. Here are some of the things we're most excited about:   Special Guests for 2018 We’re pleased to present our Special Guests for the 2018 Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway: Pulitzer Prize winners Stephen Dunn and Gregory Pardlo. Stephen and Gregory will both lead special sessions of the Advanced Poetry Workshop.   Workshops We’re offering 5 new writing workshops in ... Read More...

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Special Guests at the 2018 Winter Getaway

August 24, 2017 BY Murphy Writing Intern

  We’re pleased to present our Special Guests for the 2018 Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway: Stephen Dunn and Gregory Pardlo. Stephen and Gregory will both lead special sessions of the Advanced Poetry Workshop. The 25th Annual Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway, a writers' conference near Atlantic City, NJ, will take place January 12-15, 2018.    Stephen Dunn Stephen Dunn is the author of 19 volumes of poetry including his latest chapbook, Whereas: Poems, published in 2017 by Norton. His previous books include Different Hours, which was ... Read More...

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