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WOMEN READING ALOUD will host a Writer’s Weekend Retreat devoted to women writers who are looking for time to write in a nurturing environment.  Writers will stay at The Beacon House in exquisite accommodations. (www.beaconhouseinn.com) Each writer will enjoy her own private room and private bath.  Just one block from the ocean, the atmosphere captures casual elegance.  Begin the day with a walk on the beach.  Discover your authentic voice through writing workshops modeled after the Amherst Writers and Artists Method.  This method allows writers to flourish at every stage of the creative journey. Read testimonials from our sold-out New Jersey Shore retreats.

WORKSHOPS:  Led by Julie Maloney and Jacqueline Sheehan

JULIE MALONEY... is founder/director of WOMEN READING ALOUD.  Julie leads writing workshops throughout the year, gives readings, and speaks to "Writing As A Life Tool" in a variety of venues.  She leads a Writing to Heal Series she developed for the Carol G. Simon Cancer Center at Morristown Memorial Hospital in NJ.  She comes to the writing world after an extensive career as dancer, choreographer and artistic director of her own company.  Her book of poems, Private Landscape, has been published by Arseya Publishing. Julie is a former columnist for SilkPurse Women featuring Women in the Arts.  She is working on her first novel. This June, Julie returned from leading a writer's retreat in Greece. Visit: www.mangopress.net.

JACQUELINE SHEEHAN... is a best-selling novelist, psychologist, and facilitator of international writing retreats.  Her novels, Truth, Lost and Found and Now and Then have experienced widespread success.  Jacqueline's fourth novel will be published in April, 2012.  She is the editor of Women Writing in Prison, a compilation of seven years of writing workshops with incarcerated women.  Jacqueline leads writing workshops in her hometown of Florence, MA as well as through Patchwork Farm, Writers in Progress, and Grub Street in Boston. She is the recipient of a writer's residential fellowship at Horthenden Castle in Scotland.  Visit: www.jacquelinesheehan.com.  

To ensure an intimate atmosphere, this retreat will be limited to 20 writers.  All participants will have the opportunity to write in 5 workshops.  This is a perfect time to discover new material, as well as to continue with an ongoing writing project.  Curl up on the wraparound porch and listen to the waves.  WRA invites you to write, relax, and breathe in a weekend devoted to your writer's self. Come and be part of the writing "kula," the WRA writing community.

Includes: All workshops (5), materials, meals - 5 meals (Dinner open on Sat. night), private bedroom and bathroom (2 nights), all taxes and gratuities.  "Welcome Dinner" on Friday evening.  Check-in: Friday - 3 PM.  Check-out: Sunday - 3PM.  

COST: $685 – with $100 non-refundable deposit by Dec.1st, 2011

COST: $735 – with $100 non-refundable deposit after Dec.1st, 2011

BALANCE DUE - MARCH 1st, 2012

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