GO AND WRITE!
Description
Join us from May 4-11 or October 23-30, 2024, for a writing retreat in New Brunswick, one that offers the chance to write every day for a full week, developing good habits that will sustain you.
A writing retreat can serve as a springboard to renew your pact with yourself—a reminder that life contains magic and that writing each day is a promise kept to yourself.
For eight days and seven nights, you’ll have your own private, ensuite bedroom in a historic estate, a private writing studio, and the award-winning Kingsbrae Garden right on your doorstep.
Writing on the back porch of the Kingsbrae Estate
Costs start at $2,795 CAD (approx. $2,070 USD), details below. Contact us to register or with your questions.
About your hosts
Go and Write! with Dr. Gerard Collins and Janie Simpson
Dr. Gerard Collins, your Writer-in-Residence, originally from Newfoundland, is an award-winning author and educator who has taught and mentored for nearly three decades. His works have won and been nominated for national and international awards, such as the NL Book Awards, the Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic, and the International Dublin Literary Prize, and he has been invited to read and teach at festivals and at universities in Canada, the United States, and in the United Kingdom. Gerard has published in numerous journals and anthologies, had his work taught in multiple university courses, and all of his books have been placed in libraries around the world. See Gerard’s detailed bio here, or visit www.gerardcollins.ca.
Janie Simpson, administrator and tour coordinator, is an award-winning writer and the founding executive and artistic director of the Arts and Culture Centre of Sussex, New Brunswick. Her stories have been published in Grain Magazine and Riddle Fence, and she recently received a Canada Council for the Arts grant to complete the first draft of her current project, a novel set on White Head Island, where she spent much of her childhood. See Janie’s detailed bio here, or visit www.janesimpsonwriter.ca.
