Here is a limited selection of our Success Stories, not updated
nearly as often as it should be.
Dec. 2011
Michelle Cameron Update
Novelist Michelle Cameron, our first
featured Success Story, says the Getaway
has changed her life again.
Read Michelle's story
Oct. 2010
Kathleen Graber Update
Kathy's second collection of poetry, The Eternal City,
was a finalist for the National Book Award. Wow!
Nov. 2009
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
Dec. 2008
Ashley's 4th poetry book published after 152 rejections
Congrats to Renée Ashley, a long-time Getaway Faculty
Member, on getting her new book of poems,
Basic Heart, published after 152 rejections! She credits her
success to persistence and "professional development" including
the Getaway.
Read Renée's story
Oct. 2008
Cameron shares experience with book publishing
Congrats to Michelle Cameron, a regular at the Getaway, on getting her novel published.
She talks about how attending our "Finishing Your Novel"
workshop was the catalyzing event.
Read Michelle's story
Do you have a Getaway success story you'd like to
share?
If the Getaway has helped you create your own success story, send an email (and a link if appropriate) to
info@wintergetaway.com
to tell us about it. We plan to feature selected stories here and in
our
newsletters.
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It keeps getting better!
Kathy's second collection of poetry, The Eternal City,
was a finalist for the 2010 National Book Award. Congratulations,
Kathy!
"Deciding to write poems changed my life...."
~ Kathleen Graber
In 1997, when Kathleen Graber wrote her first poem she was a
junior high teacher in Wildwood, NJ. She says:
 The first poem I ever wrote, I wrote on the top floor of the
Grand Hotel in Cape May at the Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway.
I didn't know much about contemporary poetry, except that I
wanted to learn how to make poems. I remember the tremendous
thrill that came from writing my first draft and from being able
to share it with other writers. Having the opportunity to talk
passionately and honestly about words with other people who
shared my enthusiasm was life changing.
Kathy wanted to write poetry so much that she quit her
teaching job and redesigned her life to study poetry writing. At
first she studied in a private class I (Peter Murphy) ran out of my living
room, then she took workshops with Stephen Dunn at Stockton and
was accepted into the MFA program at NYU where she worked
with Mark Doty and others great writers.
After publishing her first book, Correspondence, and
winning Princeton University's Hodder Fellowship, the Amy Lowell
Traveling Scholarship and other major awards, Kathy is now
teaching at Virginia Commonwealth University. That's change!
 Her second collection of poems, The Eternal City, will
be published in the fall of 2010 as the first book in Princeton
University Press' relaunched Contemporary Poets Series. Poems from The Eternal City have appeared or are
forthcoming, in The American Poetry Review, The Georgia
Review, The Kenyon Review, Agni, Gulf Coast and
The New Yorker where you can read
"The Magic
Kingdom."
"I was very lucky to have stumbled into the perfect place to
begin," Kathy explains, "a place where I felt not only supported
and encouraged but also instructed at every turn. The friends
that I made at the Getaway that first year are still central to
my life. For me, there is no more magical place on Earth,
nowhere that I feel more at home or more truly myself."
In addition to leading a section of
Advanced Poetry Writing
at the 2010 Getaway,
Kathy will be giving a poetry reading
with Getaway Director Peter Murphy.
Click here to read more about how Kathy has become
the unofficial poet laureate of Wildwood.
Register
today & create your own success story!
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