#hedgebrook

Love Our Girls April 2018 is focused on Hedgebrook, a writing retreat for women.

That’s where Hedgebrook represents something so crucial, so relevant. So deeply vital. Women are often never allowed the time, the space, the community, the ‘radical hospitality’ Hedgebrook provides. At the core of it all, one feels loved; for being exactly who she is, and nurtured to have the audacity to put her voice out to the world, untempered, undiluted. From the adorable cottages to the organic gardens to the deer and the llamas to the little red riding hood baskets, to the scrumptious home cooked meals, the care and specificity that this place takes of every woman resident is as though she is allowed to find a place just for her and be reborn into her truer self.

The Magic of Pushing the Submit Button and Some Rejections

As soon as I hit submit, I realized there was more to the story than I’d submitted. The act of submitting the thing as a short story somehow made me realize that it was not so short. It was more like part one of a longer thing. Is it a novella? A play? It’s not clear to me yet. But it is the thing I’ve been most excited about for a few months now. It’s a piece of fiction/drama based on my dragon…

Coincidence, Luck, Magic (and My Mother) at Hedgebrook

Recently, on the third anniversary of my mother’s death, I went to Hedgebrook to have some writing time as well as to teach at the Summer Salon, a day of small-group writing workshops given in the Hedgebrook cottages. Three years earlier, I had been scheduled to do the same, but the week before my departure for Hedgebrook, my sister messaged me and my siblings that our mother was dying. I flew to…

Calling all women writers! Hedgebrook’s 2017 Writers in Residence application is now open until July 26, 2016. Submit a writing sample for a chance to be awarded a fully-funded 2 to 6 week writing residency at Hedgebrook on Whidbey Island, about thirty-five miles northwest of Seattle.