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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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! |
Ready to relax?
The pool and hot tub are open from 10:00 am to 10:00 pm each day.
The fitness center is open 24 hours.
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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 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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