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12/02/2025

WRITING PROMPT ✨

You lose some, you gain some. What have you lost recently and what has come anew as a result of that loss? What have you found?

We love starting with a list and then going over it and picking one idea that really stands out. So start with a list. It could be a person, a moment, an opportunity… then go from there.

06/02/2025

Not going to lie, we are tired. Things have been feeling… um… heavy. When putting this next retreat together we really thought about what we needed more of, what we felt would bring a boost of creativity, what we wanted to add to the world at this moment. What came to mind was romance. We need more romance. Not in the sense we usually come to think of it, but in the way looking at like from a romantic point of view creates so many possibilities.

In Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance romanticism plays a crucial role in expanding the narrator’s relationship to quality, rationality, and personal fulfilment. This is a lesson we think of often, as the world can sometimes push us towards a more analytical, practical, structured way of being.

With that, we’ve decided to add some more romance back into our writing life. Creativity, like love, flourishes when nurtured with tenderness, intrigue, and a touch of the unexpected. Writing isn’t just a discipline—it’s a seduction, a dance between inspiration and expression. To romance your inner writer is to create the conditions for magic. To trade the humdrum for beauty, to treat your craft like a beloved muse. feeding it with rich experiences and stolen moments of stillness. Writing cannot thrive on deadlines and caffeine alone; it needs moonlit walks, half-forgotten dreams, and the intoxicating thrill of putting the right words in the right order.

Join us in Puglia June 1-6 for 5 days of slow moving delight. Link to presale in the bio ✨

04/02/2025

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30/01/2025

A lot can happen at a writing retreat. Yes, people get a lot of writing done but also, friendships are formed. Long lasting, sisterhood type of connections. To be honest, that’s the real gift of this experience. To do something you usually do alone with someone else who GETS IT. We are always proud to look back and see women who met on our retreat doing life together. That’s what makes us keep going. Come find your new soul sister ✨

We have 1 space left in a shared room at our upcoming Mexico retreat at

DM us if you feel the call 👁️

25/01/2025

Where does the door lead to?

If you think you don’t have a story you’re not looking closely enough.

21/01/2025

It can feel a bit crazy to do something for yourself when every time you turn around there’s something outrageous to be worrying about. Stress literally drives us to a state of paralysis, and next thing we know we are watching the person we used to be from a distance.

To remain creative when it’s the last thing on your mind is a work of resistance, for succumbing to paralysis is a much easier way to cope with discomfort.

Whether you just had a baby and are grappling with your sense of identity or just ended a relationship, left a job, moved countries… writing will always be there as a source of solace, a mirror, a place to go.

We considered pausing retreats this year after feeling a lot of these big world shifts but then came to the conclusion writing is exactly how we will get through it.

If you are looking for the community, the challenge, and the shift in perspective, we are here.

There’s 1 spot left on the Mexico retreat. You can also find us in Puglia this summer.

We love you.

14/01/2025

If you are affected by the LA wildfires and need a space to process, decompress, and check in with yourself, we are offering free writing sessions through our online community, The Practice. Feel free to direct message us for details ❤️.

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08/01/2025

“I write, erase, rewrite,
erase again, and then
a poppy blooms.”

WRITING PROMPT: when was the last time you had no words? the last time saying something felt futile, unjust, unimportant. Write about that moment.

03/01/2025

Walk into the center of everything. Leave nothing in your wake.

If you’d like to move into the new year with a renewed commitment to your writing life, registration for The Practice is open. January is filled to the edges with opportunities. Our first writing circle of the year is tomorrow morning and this month we have a craft workshop led by ✨ link in bio - see you there xo

31/12/2024

A few quiet moments from our Portugal Retreat to close the year. A note that we are grateful for what we have made and holding true for what will be. Taking this time to be still and to hold tight what matters most. And tomorrow, we get back to the work.

If you’d like to start 2025 by committing to your writing life, join us in Mexico. There is one spot left and a few hours left in 2024 for tax write offs! Who’s going to grab it?

28/12/2024

I know what I am.

16/12/2024

Writing Prompt ✨

“….note the infinite lightness of what is true right now.”

Write down three things that are true about your story. Write down three questions that your story seeks to answer. Write down three things that are keeping you from writing it. Write down what would happen if you did.

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13/12/2024

Warmth. We are channeling this: the warmth of the heart and the warmth on our skin. The Mexico Retreat is in early February (6-10), arriving just at the right moment when the buzz of the holidays has faded and winter is moving at its glacial pace. Saying “yes” is a seed for the new year — a planting and a promise of what we are reaching toward next year. And when it comes with its relief and its tacos, we will go open-hearted and open-minded to be washed and warmed by the sea and feel ourselves again

This is a very small and intimate group that will center around discussing our work and asking the questions that can unlock the way we move through and think about our writing. We will spend our time discussing our work and developing new ways of getting into the writing: how to start and how to sustain. If you are a new writer, this is for you. If you are well-seasoned, this is for you.

So, if the idea of absconding to a sandy beach in midwinter — to read poems, stretch under palm trees, dance around bonfires, feast on fresh fruit, talk about the things we don’t say out loud, make space, scream, and simply be — if all of that sounds like a really good idea, then maybe one of these last rooms is for you.

There are two single rooms left, and we are here to help make this happen for you. We still have payment plans available, and if you’d like to come with a friend and share the bed, reach out for special rates.

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Second image from our Nicaragua retreat
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11/12/2024

Perhaps this is what they mean when they say once in a lifetime. Nikki Giovanni was exactly that — the rarest and rawest of talent and true blue. The world is a little less with this loss but we are all a little better off for what she’s left behind. ✨

06/12/2024

I haven’t written a short story in some time, but I woke in the middle of the night with an idea and wrote the first draft of a new story—though it has no ending. When I was in grad school, Denis Johnson came and led our MFA workshop for a semester. It was one of those “meet your idol and they become human” experiences. I wrote my best stories near him.

Denis was such a formidable force on the page. Jesus’ Son was a collection that shaped my consciousness as a short story writer. But in person, he was gentle and odd in the best way. He said things that hardly made sense at the time but have stuck with me in the years since. He was wise and brutally honest, and we were all better writers because of him.

When he passed, I sat in my car and cried on the side of the freeway in LA.

The story I’m writing now reaches toward (if I’m lucky) moments that remind me of Jesus’ Son, so I’m rereading the collection. His language is sharp and clean—an axe mid-swing. You hold your breath.

He once told me that I wouldn’t find the endings to some of my stories until five years later, while sitting in a bar, when some guy would accidentally tell me exactly how they end.

Cheers, DJ. We miss you. Xo,

02/12/2024

There is something ritualistic of December. How the days seem to quietly fold in on themselves before they are ready—the dark, an old friend for the season. We make busy, we make food, we draw the windows, we look at the stars, we invite others in.

Write about the rituals of your life, particularly those of this dark season. What if we thought of darkness as a friend—someone who has come to tell us it’s alright to take a breath, a beat? To be less productive, more reflective; less about movement, more about rest.

If you’d like, start with the line “This darkness is..”

Here’s a snippet from :

This darkness / a cup of black coffee before the sun is up / as bitter and needed as a man I once loved who could not return it in a currency that I could use / it is questions with no end and questions with no answers / darkness like an invitation and darkness like a reminder that what we bury is not ever really gone / root rot and tulip bulbs / and fig trees gone bare and now the coffee gone cold / bare feet in a house neither of us own / but this darkness holds us up like old bones / a promise that what has come will go

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