Dark & Stormy Writing Retreat

With Shaena Lambert and Betsy Warland

October 17 - 24, 2021

Date and Time Details:
Starts with dinner on October 17
Ends with lunch on October 24

Location: Cortes Island

Tuition: $625 CAD

Package Price: $1,402 - $3,131 CAD / 7 nights. Includes tuition, room, all meals, and Hollyhock activities (depends on accommodation choice). Taxes and fees are additional. A $395 deposit is required at registration, with the balance due on your departure day.

Health & Safety: By order of the Provincial Health Office, we will be requiring all our guests to provide proof of at least one vaccination, starting September 12th 2021. Learn more here!

  • Single w/ensuite Oceanfront – CAD $3,771.50
  • Single w/ensuite – CAD $3,491.50
  • Single w/shared bathroom – CAD $2,896.50
  • Couple w/ensuite Oceanfront – CAD $5,562.00
  • Couple w/ensuite – CAD $5,009.00
  • Couple w/shared bathroom – CAD $4,456.00
  • Twin w/ensuite oceanfront – CAD $2,784.50
  • Twin w/ensuite – CAD $2,504.50
  • Twin w/shared bathroom – CAD $2,224.50
  • Women Dorm – CAD $1,594.50
  • Male Dorm – CAD $1,594.50
  • Mixed Dorm – CAD $1,594.50
  • Commuter – CAD $1,314.50
    • (All prices include CAD $1,139.50 base amount)

Dark and Stormy is a 7-day retreat – free from interruption – to explore the direction of a work in progress, as well as to foster creativity through community with other writers. This unique retreat combines self-directed writing time, a one-on-one session with Betsy or Shaena and nightly fire-side conversations about craft and the writing life.

Writers should be working on a project, or fully ready to dive in,  in order to maximize their use of this deep dive retreat.

Please note that participants will be asked to send 5 pages of fiction, non-fiction, story, or memoir, as well as a brief (3 paragraph) description of the work as a whole. Shaena and Betsy will read these in advance. Instructions will follow registration.

Terms & Conditions

You may find our terms & conditions here.

Health & Safety

By order of the Provincial Health Office, we will be requiring all our guests to provide proof of at least one vaccination, starting September 12th 2021. Learn more here!

About the Presenters

Shaena Lambert

Shaena Lambert is an award-winning fiction writer, author of four books, most recently Petra (Random House Canada, 2020). Her other works are Oh, My Darling, Radiance and The Falling Woman. She has mentored writers and taught writing for over 15 years at some of Canada’s finest writing schools, including The Humber School for Writers and The Writers’ Studio at SFU. Her stories […]

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Betsy Warland

Betsy Warland has published 14 books of poetry, creative nonfiction, and lyric prose including her best-selling 2010 book of essays on writing, Breathing the Page—Reading the Act of Writing. In 2023, a second edition of Breathing the Page will include nine new essays and be published by Cormorant Books, Toronto. In 2022, the premiere of a street […]

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