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intensive three-day conference features a variety of poetry and prose workshops,
each with 10 or fewer participants. This is a conference where you write! Of
course you will receive helpful feedback, but most of our workshops emphasize
creating new material.
The Getaway offers plenty to do after hours: choose from tutorials, talks,
walking on the wooded paths or relaxing by the pool. Evenings include
receptions, open mics, dancing, a bookstore café and more. Of course, you can
continue writing in the solitude of your comfortable room.
Friday |
Saturday |
Sunday |
Monday |
How You Spend Your Time at the Getaway
Friday
| 4:00 pm |
Check in begins |
| 7:00-10:00 pm |
Welcome Reception, Orientation & Book Swap |
| 10:00 pm-1:00 am |
Dancing at the Getaway Disco |
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Saturday
| 7:00 am |
Sunrise Yoga and/or Early Morning Nature Walk |
| 7:45-8:45 am |
Breakfast |
| 9:00 am-12 pm |
Workshops |
| 11:45 am |
Lunch & Announcements |
| 1:15-4:15 pm |
Workshops |
| 4:15 pm --> |
Special Events, Tutorials & Free Time for relaxing, writing,
swimming & dining. Phew. |
| 4:45-6:00 pm |
Talk & Book Signing -- "Boardwalk Empire:
From Atlantic City to HBO" -- with Nelson Johnson, author of Boardwalk Empire.
Learn more |
| 6:15 pm |
Dinner out on the town & optional night out |
| 8:00-10:00 pm |
Open Mic |
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Game Night -- Come & Play |
| 10:00 pm-1:00 am |
Dancing at the Getaway Disco |
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Sunday
| 7:00 am |
Sunrise Yoga and/or Early Morning Nature Walk |
| 7:45-8:45 am |
Breakfast |
| 9:00 am-12 pm |
Workshops |
| 11:45 am |
Lunch & Announcements |
| 1:15-4:15 pm |
Workshops |
| 4:15 pm |
Tutorials & Free Time |
| 4:30-5:15 pm |
Book Store Preview - Cash or checks only! |
| 5:30-6:45 pm |
Dinner |
| 7:00-7:45 pm |
Exhibit -- Stephen Dunn Manuscript
Retrospective: The Poets' Revision Process |
| 7:00-10:00 pm |
Book Store - Cash or checks only! |
| 7:45-9:45 pm |
Evening Program -- Getaway Scholarship
Presentation & Stephen Dunn Poetry Reading, Reception & Book Signing
Learn more |
| 10:00 pm-1:00 am |
Dancing at the Getaway Disco |
| 10:00 pm-12:00 am |
Open Mic |
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Monday
| 7:00 am |
Sunrise Yoga and/or Early Morning Nature Walk |
| 7:45-9:15 am |
Breakfast |
| 9:00-11:45 am |
Workshops for Self-Contained Groups |
| 9:00-11:45 am |
Writing time for Poets |
| 10:30-11:45 am |
Poetry Workshops |
| 11:00 am |
Check out of your room if you haven't already |
| 12:00-1:00 pm |
Closing Program & Tribute to Dr. King & Race
Unity
-- Featuring the Richard Stockton College Gospel Choir under the direction
of Professor Beverly Vaughn |
| 1:00-2:15 pm |
Lunch -- Head home inspired, exhausted and refreshed! |
Gift Shop Serving Starbucks: 6:30
a.m. – 6:30 p.m.
Pool: 7 a.m. - 11 p.m.
Fitness Center: 24 hours.
Art Gallery: 24 hours.
Current Exhibit: Stephen Dunn
Manuscript Retrospective: The Poet's Revision Process
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Workshop Time |
Late Afternoons |
Evenings |
Head Home Refreshed
Workshop Time
The poetry writing workshops will meet for an hour or so each
morning before sending you off with an assignment that will
encourage and inspire you to produce exciting new work. After lunch
you will gather together to share your new piece in feedback
sessions led by one of the experienced faculty who will help
identify your work's virtues and offer suggestions to strengthen its
weaknesses. Because these groups are small, you will receive
positive attention to help your work mature.
In the prose and other workshops, you will start something new using
brief, structured assignments or bring along a work in progress to
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Late Afternoons
In late afternoon you can continue working, attend a panel or special event.
Or, you can do the pool have a massage at the Elizabeth Arden Red Door Spa, or
wander around the hundreds of wooded acres.
Poets may schedule a free personal tutorial session with one of
the staff to review a poem that you have been working on. Prose
writers may pay extra for this service.
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Evenings
The weekend begins on Friday at 7:00 pm with the Welcome Reception and
Orientation. You will start to get to know other participants and
faculty while enjoying light refreshments and Peter’s
bad puns (Sorry, that’s redundant).
On Saturday night you can try one of the local restaurants, hide
out in your room, play table tennis or pool in the game room, or
lounge around the pool. If you are a risk-taker, you can drive 20
minutes into Atlantic City and try your luck at one of the casinos.
If you like to dance, the Getaway disco will be buzzing.
For participants who like to share their work and enjoy others',
there will be open mics on Saturday and Sunday.
Sunday evening will also feature a special reading by Pulitzer Prize
winning poet, Stephen Dunn, the Getaway Bookstore and a reception
hosted by the Richard Stockton College.
And of course, the Getaway Disco will be hopping each night.
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Head Home Refreshed
On Monday, after your morning workshop and a memorial tribute to Dr. King dedicated to race unity, we will send you home with a box lunch refreshed and excited, with new vision, and new work to revise and keep you busy.
Can you think of a better way to blast through the winter doldrums?
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