This 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 feedback, but most of our workshops emphasize creating new material.

The Getaway offers plenty to do after hours: choose from tutorials, panels, talks, walking on the beach or relaxing in the hot tub and pool. Evenings include receptions, open mics, dancing, a bookstore café and more. Of course, you could always continue writing in the privacy of your ocean-view room.

Friday | Saturday | Sunday | Monday | How You Spend Your Time at the Getaway

Friday

When	What	Where
2:00 pm    or later	Check in at hotel & settle in	Front Desk
7:00-9:30 pm	Welcome Reception with Light Refreshments & Orientation	Penthouse Ballroom
10:00 pm	Music & Dancing	Hemingway's

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Saturday

When	What	Where
7:00 am	Sunrise Yoga	Penthouse Ballroom
	Sunrise Beach Walk	Meet in Lobby
	Coffee for Early Risers	Atrium
7:45 am	Breakfast	Grand Ballroom
9:00 am-12 pm	Morning workshops	See your orientation packet
11:45 am	Lunch	Grand Ballroom
1:15-4:15 pm	Workshops & poetry feedback sessions	See your orientation packet
4:15 pm	Free time, Special Events & Tutorials	Penthouse Ballroom
8:00-10:00 pm	Open Mic	Crystal Room
	Informal Board Games. Come & Play	Wicker Room
10:00 pm	Music & Dancing	Hemingway's

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Sunday

When	What	Where
7:00 am	Sunrise Yoga	Penthouse Ballroom
	Sunrise Beach Walk	Meet in Lobby
	Coffee for Early Risers	Atrium
7:45 am	Breakfast	Grand Ballroom
9:00 am-12 pm	Morning workshops	See your orientation packet
11:45 am	Lunch	Grand Ballroom
1:15-4:15 pm	Workshops & poetry feedback sessions	See your orientation packet
4:15 pm	Free time, Special Events & Tutorials	Penthouse Ballroom
7:30 pm	Getaway Café – Book Store & Signing, Featured Reading, Reception (Details)	Penthouse Ballroom
10:00 pm - midnight	Open Mic	Crystal Room
10:00 pm	Music & Dancing	Hemingway's

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Monday

When	What	Where
7:00 am	Sunrise Yoga	Penthouse Ballroom
	Sunrise Beach Walk	Meet in Lobby
	Coffee for Early Risers	Atrium
7:45 am	Breakfast	Grand Ballroom
8:45-10:25 am	Writing time for poets	See your orientation packet
9:00 am-12 pm	Morning workshops for others	See your orientation packet
10:30 am-12 pm	Open Table Poetry Workshops	Grand Ballroom
12:15 pm	Closing Activities & Tribute to Dr. King	Grand Ballroom
1:00 pm	Express Lunch Sit down or take it with you on the road	Grand Ballroom
2:00 pm	Check out and go home inspired, exhausted & refreshed!

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How You Spend Your Time at the Getaway

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 poetry workshops, you will start something new using brief, structured assignments or bring along a work in progress to polish. Either way, your writing will receive personalized attention.

The Art & Music workshops will provide you with a balance of instruction and critique so that you learn by doing.

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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 & hot tub, have a massage, walk along the winter beach, or wander around the quiet Cape May streets admiring the famous Victorian houses and visiting the local shops.

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, who work in smaller groups, and artists, 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 lite refreshments.

On Saturday night you can try one of Cape May's famous restaurants, hide out in your room, play boards games, or lounge around the pool. If you like to dance, the hotel disco will be buzzing.

For participants who like to share their work and enjoy others', there will be two open mics, on Saturday evening from 8:00-10:00 pm and on Sunday evening from 10:00 pm-midnight.

Sunday evening will feature a special program, the Getaway Bookstore and a reception.

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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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