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Updated 1/6/2011
We created a guide with all the information you will need to
arrive at Seaview safely, happily and ready to enjoy the
weekend, including how to book our special rate to extend your
stay. Everything is new.
Please read it carefully so you don’t miss
anything.
The Getaway will NOT be canceled!
In our 18 year history, we've never had to cancel. Our
venues have served us beautifully, even during blizzards, ice
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Boardwalk Empire Creator to Speak at
the Getaway
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We are excited to announce that writer Nelson Johnson will be giving a talk
at this year's Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway, Boardwalk Empire: From
Atlantic City to HBO. His nonfiction book, Boardwalk Empire: The
Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City, serves as the basis for the hit
HBO series.
Because The Sopranos ruled the airwaves for the better part of the
last decade, most people associate New Jersey with a densely packed suburban
landscape in the shadow of the Big Apple. However, Atlantic City's
prohibition-era gangsters were bootlegging, gambling, heisting and murdering
decades before Tony, Silvio and Paulie hijacked their first truckload of
VCR’s. Now, Nucky Thompson and his gang are finally getting their due on
HBO's Boardwalk Empire. The hit show, renewed for a third season,
has garnered extensive critical praise, seven Emmy's and has earned South
Jersey a new place in the American cultural imagination.
Join us for a special chat with Boardwalk
Empire creator Nelson
Johnson. The talk is free and open to the public. Bootleg scotch not
included...well...maybe.
Boardwalk Empire: From Atlantic City to HBO
Author talk and book signing with Nelson Johnson
Saturday, January 14 - 4:45 - 6:00 pm
Bayview
Ballroom at Seaview Resort
401 S. New York Rd, Galloway, NJ
Free and Open to the Public
RSVPs Requested:
info@wintergetaway.com
No RSVP necessary for Getaway participants & their registered guests
Talk to be followed by and Q&A and book signing. A
limited number of Johnson's books will be available for sale
on a first-come, first-served basis.
Getaway Café & Book Store
Our Sunday evening program will feature a reading and release
party for Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Dunn's
new book Falling Backwards into the World, a limited
edition chapbook of poems from Jane Street Press. Be among the first to hear
Stephen read his new poems and leave Seaview with your own
autographed copy.
Stephen Dunn Poetry Reading and Reception
At the Getaway Café & Book Store
Sunday, January 15 - 7:00 -10:00 pm
Presidential
Ballroom at Seaview Resort
401 S. New York Rd, Galloway, NJ
Free and Open to the Public
RSVPs Requested:
info@wintergetaway.com
No RSVP necessary for Getaway participants & their registered guests
A limited number of Dunn's books will be available for
sale on a first-come, first-served basis. The Getaway will also launch the
Stephen Dunn Retrospective and Challenges for the
Delusional. More details here.
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Workshops are filling up. Don't delay any longer.
Register now!
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- We are pleased to welcome back Pulitzer Prize winner
Stephen Dunn who will lead a special session of
Advanced Poetry Writing and give a featured reading.
- This year’s highlights include the opening of the
Stephen Dunn Retrospective, a manuscript exhibit on his
revision process at Seaview’s art gallery.
- The Getaway Bookstore will launch two exciting books
published by
Jane Street Press:
- Falling Backwards into the World, a limited
edition chapbook of short poems by Special Guest Stephen
Dunn
- Challenges for the Delusional, an anthology of
my zany writing prompts, culled over the last eighteen
years, and the published poems they inspired
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- Murphy Writing Seminars is proud to team up with
The
Richard Stockton College of New Jersey to present the
19th Annual Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway
- Our elegant new facility has
more guest rooms and workshop space
- Registration packages now include Sunday night dinner
- We're introducing a "re-PETER" Discount for repeat attendees
- Choose among 12 workshops in poetry, prose & song
writing including the following new workshops:
Check out our 2012 Workshops
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Congratulations to two of our long-time Winter Getaway faculty, Kathleen
Graber and
James Richardson, who were 2010
National Book Award Finalists. We were thrilled to see both of them on the
poetry list. Kathy was also a finalist for the 2010 National Book Critics
Circle Award.
Read the National Book Association's write up of their books:
- Kathleen Graber's
The Eternal City: Poems
(Princeton University Press, 2010)
- James Richardson's
By the Numbers
(Copper Canyon Press, 2010)
Did you know Kathy wrote her first poem as a Winter Getaway
participant? Read her success
story.
Jim will be two leading sessions of
Advanced Poetry Writing
at the 2012 Getaway.
Learn more.
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Need a ride? Willing to drive someone? Want to share an airport shuttle?
Post it here. Ready, set, go.
 The
Toni Brown Memorial Scholarship celebrates the life of and
commemorates untimely death of poet and Winter Getaway Faculty Member Toni
Brown. Support for this scholarship is provided by the
faculty, staff and
participants of the Winter Getaway. Because of their generosity, we were
also able to award a 2nd place scholarship for 2011.
Congratulations to our 2011 Toni Brown Memorial Scholarship
recipients, Amy Small-McKinney and Candace Stargell and
to our Jan-ai Scholarship recipients, Armin Tolentino, Lisa
Bower, Nissa Lee and Jeffrey Markovitz.
Learn more.
Kathleen Graber really did change her life
Kathy, now on our faculty, wrote her first poem in our "Poetry Writing" workshop in 1997. She talks about how
attending the Getaway helped her change her life.
Read Kathy's story
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took a little while but we've thoroughly embraced the Twitter craze, and
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Getaway Gift Certificates make
great presents and are available in any denomination. Why
not tell the people who love you that this is what you want this
year. Too shy?
Let us know who they are and how to contact them, and I'll
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the time the 2012 Getaway arrives.
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Quickie Poetry Getaway
 No frills. No hassle. No commitment. Just writing.
November 12, 2011
Need a brief break from your life? Need to rekindle your love affair with
poetry? Join Peter for this mid-autumn Getaway to give your writing a much
needed boost. No need to stay the night. No distractions. Just a day of
writing.
Learn more
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Myth,
Mountain & Imagination
 A Getaway for Poets & Writers in Wales
August 18-24, 2012
WRITE IN WALES: Join us for a unique writing retreat in the mountains of
north Wales. Make progress on your book or poetry while immersed in the
breathtaking landscape which inspired the legend of King Arthur and the
Welsh epic The Mabinogian. Take advantage of daily writing time,
workshops, organic meals & relaxing by the lake.
Learn more
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 PoetryNJ listserv
Our free Yahoo! Group will send you daily emails of poetry & prose readings,
workshops, conferences and other literary events in NJ, NY, Philly &
environs.
Learn more
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