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Pam Houston & Luis Alberto UrreaWriting By Writers Lake Superior Writing Adventure
September 10-15, 2023 Go back
The Lake Superior Writing Adventure is a week-long workshop with Pam Houston and Luis Alberto Urrea where writers will work with both faculty members to generate new work while hiking, kayaking and exploring the pristine beauty of the Lake Superior and Apostle Islands region.
Check in: September 10, 2023
Check out: September 15, 2023
Pricing: $3,000 includes five full days of workshop, all group excursions (hiking, kayaking, boat tour) lodging in a private room and meals.
Please note this retreat can only be booked through the link below.
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Class description
The Lake Superior Writing Adventure is a week-long workshop with Pam Houston and Luis Alberto Urrea where writers will work with both faculty members to generate new work while hiking, kayaking and exploring the pristine beauty of the Lake Superior and Apostle Islands region.
The workshop is limited to 20 participants to ensure an intimate setting, plus plenty of time to write and explore all the outdoor wonders Lake Superior has to offer.
This offering is open to all levels of writer. Each day we will have time for outdoor activities, writing and craft talks.
We won’t be reading and critiquing manuscripts, but rather generating new material and closely examining elements of craft with the intention of allowing participants to see their work with deeper insight.
APPLICATION DETAILS:
The Lake Superior Writing Adventure is open to all levels of writer. Participants should be comfortable and capable of outdoor activities including kayaking and hiking. The total cost of the Lake Superior Writing Adventure is $3000 which includes all lodging, meals, group excursions and workshop fees. Participants are responsible for their own transportation to and from Bayfield and to the start locations of our adventures. We highly encourage renting and sharing cars. The Lake Superior Writing Adventure is limited to 20 participants and will be accepted on a rolling basis.
Registration for this offering is through Writing X Writers - please tap Book Now button and follow registration prompts on their website.
biography
Writing By Writers (WxW) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization whose mission is to create a rigorous, compassionate and inclusive environment to learn the art of reading and writing from accomplished authors. WxW hosts multi-day writing workshops for people interested in writing fiction, nonfiction, memoir and poetry. The workshops are taught by nationally known, published authors, who are adept at teaching the craft of writing to all levels of student. In addition, participants learn how to read other’s work critically and apply those lessons to their own writing.
FACULTY
Pam Houston is the author of the memoir, Deep Creek: Finding Hope In The High Country, which won the 2019 Colorado Book Award, the High Plains Book Award and the Reading The West Advocacy Award and more recently, Air Mail: Letters of Politics Pandemics and Place coauthored with Amy Irvine.
She is also the author of Cowboys Are My Weakness, Contents May Have Shifted, and four other books of fiction and nonfiction, all published by W.W. Norton.
She lives at 9,000 feet above sea level on a 120-acre homestead near the headwaters of the Rio Grande and teaches creative writing at UC Davis and at the Institute of American Indian Arts.
She is cofounder and creative director of the literary nonprofit Writing by Writers and fiction editor at the Environmental Arts Journal Terrain.org. She raises Icelandic Sheep and Irish Wolfhounds and is a fierce advocate for the Earth.
Luis Alberto Urrea is the best-selling author of 17 books, including The House of Broken Angels, The Devil’s Highway and The Hummingbird’s Daughter. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Urrea has won the Lannan Literary Award, the Pacific Rim Kiriyama Prize, an American Book Award, the Christopher Award and an Edgar Award, among other honors.
His novel Into the Beautiful North is a current selection of the NEA’s Big Read program. His books have been chosen by more than 45 different cities and colleges for community reads programs and he is much in demand as a speaker, lecturer and teacher.
In 2015, he released a book of short stories, The Water Museum and a poetry collection, The Tijuana Book of the Dead. Born in Tijuana to a Mexican father and American mother, Urrea is most recognized as a border writer, though he says, “I am more interested in bridges, not borders.”
He lives in Chicago where he is a distinguished professor of creative writing at the University of Illinois-Chicago.
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- Lap top and/or writing materials
- Clothes for outdoor activities
For optional daily yoga immersion classes, Wild Rice Retreat offers mats, blankets, blocks and straps if you prefer not to bring your own. Chairs are also provided for guests who require them.
