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Ninth Annual Taos Writing Retreat
for Health Professionals
| Contact: | Julie Reichert |
| Address: | Maggie Griffith, University of New Mexico, Office of Continuing Medical Education, Albuquerque, NM 87105 |
| Phone: | 505-272-3942 |
| E-mail: | drjulier@comcast.net |
| Website: | http://www.taoswritingretreat.com/ |
| Dates: | August 3-9, 2008 |
| Application Deadline: | June 20, 2008 (regular tuition) July 25 (late tuition) |
| Tuition: | $2,250 (includes room, board, materials) |
| Genres: | Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction |
| Faculty: | Julie Reichert, PhD Daniel Becker, MD |
| Description: | The retreat encourages individuals - doctors, nurses, ethicists, psychologists, and anyone who is interested - to pursue writing in a communal environment that provides maximum space for personal exploration and growth. Participants are invited to bring along work-in-progress (both scholarly and creative), ideas for writing they want to begin, or simply a desire to write. Mornings from nine to noon, participants meet in the graceful Mabel Dodge Luhan House classroom to write together and discuss various aspects of writing, like how to grip a reader's attention in a first paragraph or a last line. Afternoons are free for scheduled writing consultations with faculty members, for optional small group meetings, and for solitary writing, reflection, and communion with the beauty of Taos. Evenings offer informal gatherings that include music, readings, videos, dancing, and distinguished visiting writers (John Nichols, Simon Ortiz, Demetria Martinez, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Ellen Meloy, Leslie Marmon Silko, Linda Hogan, and Mark Spragg have been guests). Too often in hospitals and clinics, in busy professional lives, there is no time for reflection. But here, in a historic setting that has hosted great writers and artists from D.H. Lawrence to Georgia O'Keeffe, left-out stories are told, shared, written. The writers are relaxed and energized. A synergy occurs, a mix of fellow writers, gorgeous surroundings, fabulous food, spontaneous encounters that add up to more than the sum of their parts. |
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