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Dear Writers
Dear Writers, I have been thinking a lot about community lately: what it means to be a community of writers. To hear each other, to hold each other up, to stand in each others' darkness unafraid, to turn up the volume on each other's voices. This year, perhaps because I lost my father this summer, and I am breaking my ties to my childhood and my first home, I am thinking about the families we choose. The ones we create. And I am grateful. For my families - all of them. And my writer friends, who never cease to amaze me with their fresh perspectives, their soaring optimism; who remind me that what I have always thought was axiomatic is actually just someone else's opinion. ...
Join us in 2018
Enjoy this video of our 2017 memories and imagine yourself escaping to Hawaii in the cold! 2018 dates are February 28-March 6th. Flights are discounted for the offseason, so the time to act is now! We invite you to poke around on the website and apply. Deadline December 4, 2017. (With thanks to our photographer extraordinaire, Micael Storm Blue)
Pele’s Fire. Join Us.
Now more than ever, we need creative community, safe spaces. We need to raise our voices. Enjoy this video slide show of our 2016 experience. Join us in March 2017.
Pele’s Fire Memories
"Honestly, I was surprised at just how amazing this retreat was. I expected it to be great, of course, but there is something about this place that opened all of us to possibility, new ideas and joy. Of course, Hawaii is my home, and working with writers is my intellectual home - a calling that feeds my soul. But I did not expect to be dancing in the line for dinner or sleeping so deeply to the sounds of the night. It was a privilege to be a part of this retreat, and when the community of writers insisted that it should happen again in 2017, well, there was no argument from us. Here's a video of what it was like for us through the images of Rose Sabangan (with the addition of an image...
To Whet Your Appetite
Many thanks to Rose Sabangan who took out her phone to photograph her breakfast! Here's what the morning looks like at Pele's Fire: