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November 1
12:00–4:00pm
AfterWords Literary Festival
Workshop
December 6
County Arts
Workshop
August 7 — 12, 2026
Hollyhock
5-day Retreat
A Meditative Writing Workshop with Master Writing Coach Sarah Selecky
Reconnect with your creative curiosity in this transformative workshop with acclaimed author and master writing coach Sarah Selecky. Through guided exercises, meditations, freewriting prompts, and deep noticing practices, you'll discover how to access a state of calm fascination that makes writing feel natural and engaging. Sarah shares key methods from her new book, Story Is a State of Mind, showing you how to integrate conscious and unconscious awareness for more authentic work. You'll generate new material while learning sustainable practices to keep your creative energy alive and connect with your innate wisdom.
Join author and creative intuitive Sarah Selecky to learn the magical art of writing from your whole self, using intellect and intuition at once.
These skills live in the heart of story and poetry, yet they’re rarely taught in traditional writing programs. While academic courses focus on craft and technique, they often overlook the mystical ways writers have always connected to symbol, narrative, and ideas. Intuitive practices are essential to creative well-being. Every writer has natural access to this intelligence, but most of us were never taught how to use it as part of our creative toolkit.
Sarah’s primary interest as a guide is to help writers access the natural creative force that flows through them, while helping them understand how language works so they feel confident making creative decisions.
This retreat invites writers of all levels to move beyond overthinking and into the flow state, where we do our best work. You’ll learn to integrate your analytical mind with your creative energy, so you can write from your whole self, not just your thoughts.
Writing with intuition is incredible. It is the unseen force that makes our writing come alive. When filled with this mysterious power, words can enchant, heal, enliven, and awaken. Connecting with your intuition makes writing feel like magic!
In this five-day retreat, writers might begin to see new vibrancy in colours, have vivid dreams about their work, or suddenly understand something essential about their novel while staring at a fir tree. You’ll write a scene and wonder, “Who wrote that?” All of this is normal and wonderful.
When writers gather together to practice in nature, magic happens.
Each morning begins with instruction in whole-minded writing practices through gentle trance techniques, intuitive writing, and deep sensory awareness. Discover how to translate physical sensations into vivid writing that feels alive on the page. Explore Tarot as a creative catalyst to reveal unexpected directions in character, plot, and theme.
In the afternoons, you will go on intuitive field trips with the forest and the ocean, as you practice deep noticing and experience consciousness as a creative force flowing through the natural world. Evenings will bring dreamwork and reflection.
Through guided writing prompts, co-writing sessions, and solo exploration, you’ll transform your inner critic into a supportive inner protector and connect directly to the deeper truth of your story. Learn concrete techniques for moving fluidly between active thinking and receptivity.
The goal is for everyone to leave this retreat feeling integrated, whole, and powerful in their writing practice, understanding that they are both part of a story and creating a story. Writing with intuition is natural, but we've forgotten how to access it. This retreat reminds you.
Writers are more powerful than they realize—we know this deep down, but it takes courage to tap into the mystery. Creative curiosity is your home, and intuitive writing is the practice of being fully alive on the page. It’s what we’re here for.
So come write as your whole, true self! This retreat is appropriate for all experience levels, especially writers who feel stuck in a current work-in-progress.
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Transform your writing group, conference, or classroom with Sarah’s unique blend of craft and consciousness. Drawing from Story Is a State of Mind, Sarah offers dynamic workshops and talks that help writers access their creative power with more ease, awareness, and joy.
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Sarah brings over twenty years of teaching experience to each event, creating meaningful experiences that inspire lasting change in writers’ practices.
Contact support@sarahselecky.com to learn more.
