el retorno:
writing hasta las raÍces
WRITER'S RETREAT
Sosua, Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic
July 8th - July 13th, 2024
Application Closed: December 31st, 2023
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A fIVE-DAY long retreat to inspire a
re-discovery of your creativity & cultura!
Retreat Dates: July 8-13th, 2024
Application Opens: November 18th, 2023
Application Closed: December 31st, 2023
Acceptance Acceptance Emails: January 15th, 2024
This international writing experience will fill your life with enchantment, wonder and empowerment. We encourage all BIPOC writers to participate in our writing workshops on fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry with focus on the craft of writing and engaging in cross-cultural conversations around literature created by Dominicans of the diaspora and Quisqueya.
Join us in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic as we create space for and with nuestra gente to lean into your writing voices and reconnect with our land. It offers you the possibility to concentrate on thinking, reading, and writing in a sustained way, to recharge your battery, and to gain new inspiration. For individuals and groups, with meals, room and board included in the subsidized tuition fee.
Cabarete/Sosua is a resort town on the Dominican Republic's northern coast. Along the coast you will find Encuentro Beach is known for its surf breaks, Cabarete Beach known for its water sports, and calm sky blue beaches like Sosua Beach. This town is also filled with restaurants, bars and a nightlife. This writer’s retreat is open to writers of all levels, and it operates on a non-competitive basis. To participate you will need to complete an application, your response should be as thorough as possible and pay a modest application fee.
Included in the writing retreat are daily workshops in English and Spanish, craft discussions, feedback on writing, and time to work on projects. Writers can also enjoy walks along the beach to the many restaurants and shops in town.
To participate you will need to complete an application and pay a modest application fee.
MEET THE FACULTY
JP Infante
Prose
Annell Lopez
Fiction Editor
Kleaver Cruz
Multi-Genre
Creative Writing
Alicia Anabel Santos
Memoir
Roberto Carlos Garcia
Poetry
Lissette Norman
Children's Book Writing
Michael Diaz
The Business of
TV Writing
Modesto 'Flako" Jimenez
Performance Theatre
Spanish Writing Workshops
Elizabeth Villaman
Narrativa
María Carla Picón
Narrativa
Ruth Pion
Understanding Blackness & Race in Dom. Rep.
Saray Figuereo Roa
Empowerment and Coalition Across Borders
Moraima Capellan
Food Insecurity & Agriculture
Katherine Cepeda
Holistic Wellness
Exploring identity, heritage, and social justice in the Dominican Republic
our sponsors
Can you be from a place you have never been? You can find the island stamped all over me, but what would the island find if I was there? Can you claim a home that does not know you, much less claim you as its own?” - Elizabeth Acevedo
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