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Workshops and Retreats

Portrait of Jacqueline Sheehan
Wales, 2005
Photo by Dave Schellinger

International Writing Retreats

 

GUATEMALA 2009 

Join Jacqueline and Celia Jeffries for a writing and yoga retreat in the Guatemalan highlands February 7 - 14, 2009. This retreat features morning yoga, daily writing sessions, manuscripts critiques, all at the beautiful Villa Sumaya resort on Lake Atitlan, Guatemala. For more information, go to my home page.

JAMAICA 2009, New retreat location!

Join us on the Bromely estate for our first adventure in Jamaica. March 28 - April 4, 2009. We will start the day with yoga and write until 1 pm. We will keep the afternoons free to match the wise and luxurious pace of island. In the evening we will write again in the safe and supportive environment that Writing Journeys is known for. For more information go to www.tropicalescapes.biz/escapes/writing_journeys_2009.html.

ISLE OF CUMBRE, SCOTLAND, JULY 12 - 19, 2008

Join Jacqueline and Patricia Lee Lewis for a Patchwork Farm Writing and Yoga Retreat on the Isle of Cumbre. The Gaelic translation of Cumbre is Safe Harbor, and this is truly a safe harbor for writers to dig deep and focus on writing and restorative yoga. 8 days and 7 nights, all meals and accomodations included. And we just might hear some bag pipers strolling along the waterfront. Contact www.writingretreats.org for more information.

Workshops in Massachusetts


Jacqueline is on the faculty of Writers in Progress and frequently teaches weekend workshops as well as six and ten week writing workshops. To register for workshops in Massachusetts, contact the director of Writers in Progress, Dori Ostermiller at 413.582.0101 or dorio@writersinprogress.com, or go the web page at www.writersinprogress.com.

Events

April 21, 2007
Women Reading Aloud
Workshop, Reading, Signing
10 Pleasantville Road
New Vernon, New Jersey
07976

For more information, contact Julie Maloney, Director
Julie@womenreadingaloud.org
www.womenreadingaloud.org


April 26, 2007
Food For Thought Bookstore
Reading and Signing
106 N. Pleasant Street
Amherst, MA 01002
413.253.5432
joan@foodforthoughtbooks.com


May 9, 2007
Broadside Bookshop
Reading and Signing
247 Main Street
Northampton, MA 01060
413.586.4235
Roxie@broadsidebooks.com


May 17, 2007
West Springfield Library
200 Park Street
West Springfield, MA 01089
cdoyle@wsc.ma.edu
www.wspl.org


May 21, 2007
Odyssey Book Shop Book Group
9 College Street
South Hadley, MA
odysseynews@aol.com


June 14, 2007
Cambridge Public Library
Central Square Branch
Reading and signing
45 Pearl Street
Cambridge, MA 02139
Main phone 617.349.4010
egreen@Cambridgema.gov


August 5-12 2007
Wales, United Kingdom
Join Jacqueline, Patricia Lee Lewis, and British author David Clemson for a writing retreat on the cliffs overlooking the Irish Sea. For registration information: www.writingretreats.org

August 8, 2007

  • Borders Books
  • South Portland, Maine.
  • Reading and signing with the author. 7 pm.

 

September 14, 2007

Applewood Estates

Amherst, MA

Reading with the author

 

January 26, 2008

Writers in Progress

Faculty Reading

Florence, MA

February 9 - 16, 2008

Writing and Yoga Retreat

Villa Sumaya

Guatemala

March 5, 2008

Book Talk

Southbury Library

Southbury, CT

March 15, 2008

Full day workshop

Writing the Novel

Writers in Progress

Florence, MA

www.writersinprogress.com

 

May 2, 2008

Jump Start Your Writing

9am - 1pm

Writers in Progress

Florence, MA

July 12 - 19, 2008

Writing and Yoga Retreat

Isle of Cumbre, Scotland

www.writingretreats.org

September 20, 2008 

Jump-start Your Novel-in-Progress, with Jacqueline Sheehan:
You’ve got a compelling novel idea, but how do you keep the momentum going? This one-day workshop will focus on developing strong, vivid characters, articulating conflict and creating enough narrative tension to sustain you and your readers through a novel-length manuscript. Come prepared with a short summary, or the first couple of pages of your novel.  
Saturday, September 20, 9:00 - 4:30, with an hour for lunch.  ($120)