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After almost a decade of doing this work, what was originally the Haven Writing Retreat has evolved into a variety of programs and a thriving community. It supports you where you need to be met, and can carry you through to publication if that is your goal.
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Haven Nest
Interested in getting support but can’t make it to Montana for a retreat? My online writing community, Haven Nest, is open for enrollment twice a year. Learn more here.
In Discussion with Terry Tempest Williams
It took three days to finally come out of the trance of speaking heart language with one of my literary heroines and writer sisters, Terry Tempest Williams.
I go into this trance when I write. I have never gone into it when I do speaking events. I have only partial memory of the words I spoke but it went past words for me. And I finally watched the video and saw, amid her elegant questions, true and pure joy in me…being seen by such an absolute woman.
Having my book land in her heart when she had so much to do with healing my fiction years ago. It was one of the honors of my life. If you haven’t read her, you must. She is one of the most powerful voices of our time.
Thank you, Terry. Thank you, Changing Hands bookstore. Support indie bookstores! Authors, support one another!
Thank you to Changing Hands Bookstore for presenting this virtual authors event.
“WILLA’S GROVE”
Three women, from coast to coast and in between, open their mailboxes to the same intriguing invitation.
Although leading entirely different lives, each has found herself at a similar, jarring crossroads. Right when these women thought they’d be comfortably settling into middle age, their carefully curated futures have turned out to be dead ends.
The sender of the invitation is Willa Silvester, who is reeling from the untimely death of her beloved husband and the reality that she must say goodbye to the small mountain town they founded together. Yet as Willa mourns her losses, an impossible question keeps staring her in the face: So now what?
Struggling to find the answer alone, fiercely independent Willa eventually calls a childhood friend who happens to be in her own world of hurt-and that’s where the idea sparks. They decide to host a weeklong interlude from life, and invite two other friends facing their own quandaries. Soon the four women converge at Willa’s Montana homestead, a place where they can learn from nature and one another as they contemplate their second acts together in the rugged wilderness of big sky country.
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So Now What?
Laura reads from her book,”Willa’s Grove” for Boulder Bookstore.
“You know… we’re all fluent in this language. In the language of community. And yet we so rarely speak it. It really is our mother tongue.”
Praise for “Willa’s Grove”
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