Summit Seminars is now offering private residencies to one woman writer at a time for one to two weeks lodging in a private studio with separate entrance in an historic home surrounded by cedar, oak, pine and laurels, birds and squirrels. Dedicated to nourishing the creative spirit in emerging or established women writers with non-interference or interruptions except for good food and a room of her own.
Accommodations include daily meals, snacks, telephone, and local transport.
Stay in a pine chalet in the woods in the mountain village of Crestline, California.
$250 a week, all inclusive with personal care and attention.
Only women seeking a quiet, private place in the country to work seriously on either playwriting, cinematic arts, non-fiction, creative fiction and poetry may apply.
Enjoy writing in a lovely private rose garden in the woodland 5000 ft. above the Pacific ocean.
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Application period is now closed and will open in August for Spring residencies of two to four weeks and close on September 30th
Eligibility Applicants must:
•Be woman-identified
•Be 21 years of age or older
•Apply as an individual artist, not a collaborative group or team
You will provide a work sample and answer three questions (each answer 300 words or fewer).
•How have you sought to educate yourself as a writer? (Formal education not a prerequisite, but evidence of curiosity and learning in your applicable genre is.)
•What is your experience with publishing your work?
•What project will you pursue while in residency? Work Sample Requirements:
•Work samples should reflect work completed within the last two years.
•Applicants can submit published or unpublished work samples.
Diversity I, Joan Eyles Johnson, am committed to diversity and elevating voices of historically excluded communities.
Summit Seminars and Scribeaway.org
Summit Seminars and Scribeaway.org
private consultations: $45 private one hour or $100 for six hours with lunch. Finish your script, play, novel (historical, romance, mystery), poetry chapbook, poetry collection, children's and young-adult literature, sci-fi, fantasy, horror, stage play, travelogue, interview, essay, and more all with the coaching of an award-winning author, poet and playwright and very special guests.
Our goal is to get you to publication and solid intellectual property (copyright) for your legacy. From start to finish, work toward your goal.
Apply at Antoniaadverse@gmail.com for an appointment to meet.
Special Seminar Monday, September 26th
Special Seminar Monday, September 26th
For women only from 10AM until tired.
For women only from 10AM until tired.
Beginning to write and that means beginning or continuing or finishing a piece of writing whether a short flash fiction or a trilogy of novels.
Beginning to write and that means beginning or continuing or finishing a piece of writing whether a short flash fiction or a trilogy of novels.
Send your application. Upon acceptance, you will receive directions to the retreat house and further instructions. The writing sessions are private and only upon acceptance after reading your reasons for applying. Antoniaadverse@gmail.com
Send your application. Upon acceptance, you will receive directions to the retreat house and further instructions. The writing sessions are private and only upon acceptance after reading your reasons for applying. Antoniaadverse@gmail.com
Let's introduce ourselves, talk about what you are currently working on, or how to start writing, or how to get published, and enjoy talking about being a writer, getting published, finding inspiration, blocking writer's block, and more. Enjoy a literary chat with an experienced writer in almost every genre and 30 years of teaching experience in colleges and universities. Even if you are just curious, let me entertain you. Sign up now with your date and time. One hour or the whole day is for your convenience and pleasure. Antoniaadverse@gmail.com Old friends and new, please come and check out your "happy" place where there is never a discouraging word. That's a promise. Guaranteed. Writing is FUN.
Keep writing!
Keep writing!
Seminars will start up again in Spring when the weather is glorious and the plague is past. WE will meet again in my garden to speak of literature, and to make some from scratch.
Summit Seminars/Scribeaway
Summit Seminars/Scribeaway
Write away from the familiar
MAY 2,3,4 Weekend. Choose any day or all three days
MAY 2,3,4 Weekend. Choose any day or all three days
Writing for children and young adults
Weather permtting, come to the retreat for a free silent writing day in the garden. Any sunny day before the snow starts on the mountain, from 10AM until 3PM. Limited to 4 writers. Get even more serious about your writing and contact me now. Two hours of writing in the fresh air, healthy delicious lunch, editing session. Optional sharing. Absolutely no negativity allowed when discussing "the written word."
Weather permtting, come to the retreat for a free silent writing day in the garden. Any sunny day before the snow starts on the mountain, from 10AM until 3PM. Limited to 4 writers. Get even more serious about your writing and contact me now. Two hours of writing in the fresh air, healthy delicious lunch, editing session. Optional sharing. Absolutely no negativity allowed when discussing "the written word."
A special five days away
A special five days away
Send to Joan Eyles johnson at www.Antoniaadverse@gmail.com">www.Antoniaadverse@gmail.com
for more information about the special (Free) week-long writing seminar in Crestline in the Spring. Please write a brief description of your artistic endeavors, past publications, exhibits, and a brief reason for your interest. Include a phone number if you want a personal response. Please request an application form if you are considering the value of a week in the alpine village of Crestline, California. Extreme silence when writing, good food, tea, fresh cpffee. and spring bottled water, honest and kind consideration and feedback on your work, and time for you to spend time in total consideration of your writing and writing goals. All genres are welcome at the table.
Write away from everything familiar--free yourself to "make it new."
Write away from everything familiar--free yourself to "make it new."
The idea that it’s just a story makes
some people uneasy but when you step back, all human culture is based on a story. Democracy is a story. Marriage is a story. A company’s culture is a story. Religions each has a
story. What often entangles us in the desolate kind of why
bother is being unwilling or unable to do the work of writing a new story that we can wholeheartedly love. What you want—and must have—to bother again is a story you believe in."
----from "Why Bother" by Jennifer Louden