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Thrive & Connect at Our Writers Events
We understand that beyond having time and space to work, so many writers are derailed by a lack of solidarity. A community that advocates (and, on a more basic but crucial level, understands) creativity—how it happens, what it requires, who seeks to cultivate it more as calling than hobby—is essential. Each individual must ascertain and walk their unique path, but what all writers share is the need for support, in all its forms, and reassurance they’re not alone. Explore a few of our Movable Feast events below:
Winter Residencies at Lambert’s Cove Inn & Resort
Martha’s Vineyard, Massachussetts
Join Moveable Feast at the jewel of Martha’s Vineyard, Lambert’s Cove. Your all-inclusive stay will include daily writers retreat programming, lodging, fine dining, lawn games, complimentary bicycles and access to the most beautiful private beach on the island, Lambert’s Cove Beach.
Explore the venue:
lambertscoveinn.com
Todos Santos Writers Workshop
Todos Santos, Mexico
The Todos Santos Writers Workshop, founded in 2014, is a center for creative writing based in the historic pueblo mágico of Todos Santos, Baja California Sur, Mexico. TSWW offers workshops for writers at all levels in Fiction, Memoir, Poetry, and Storytelling Strategies. A one-week Memoir Intensive workshop is offered in May in Paris, France.
Learn more at todossantoswritersworkshop.com
Karbohemia
Paris, France
In France, being yourself is the only way to be. Individuality is a value here; going along with the crowd is pas intéressant. To bring your boldest, most inspired and unique self to the page, it’s sometimes necessary to renovate your spirit. So, how do we get there? How do you go from schedules, screens, and the demands of everyday life to feeling creative and free enough to make a difference in your work?
Learn more at karenkarbo.com
Prospect Street
Bennington, Vermont
1455 is proud to include V Hansmann’s Prospect Street as a Moveable Feast founding partner. Bennington Vermont is the ideal locale, a true four-seasons destination that combines natural beauty, a rich historic tradition, and the perfect vibe. Prospect Street is the right place in the right town and the right time.
Learn more at prospectstreet.org
Read about the event in Movable Type
A Mighty Blaze
Boston, Massachussetts
A Mighty Blaze is an organization of 35 professional creative volunteers connecting writers with readers online since March 2020. Pub Day hottest books, debut-to-legend author interviews in every genre, podcast and more. Come in, look around, get your LIT lit on!
Learn more at amightyblaze.com
Devotion to Writing
Martha’s Vineyard, Massachussetts
Orvieto, Italy
Devotion to Writing is an in-person (and online) course that helps you cultivate a daily writing/creative practice, and gets you writing more deeply and freely than you’ve ever written before. Using prompts and teachings, DTW helps connect you to the source of energy and abundance within you that sustains your work and life.
Check out the workshops at
devotiontowriting.com
About Moveable Feast
The practical goal of this consortium is providing an authentic space enabling writers to thrive and connect. The longer-term mission is initiating a micro community via the residencies/retreats/workshops, as well as a macro community wherein, via social media, a vibrant website, and regular events, artists can connect, network, and above all, nurture one another. In addition, the Moveable Feast will be a sponsored venue that curates readings, author talks, and other artistic events. We will encourage and, where possible, partner with local businesses to promote the appreciation of fine food, drink, entertainment and culture.
The core market for Moveable Feast is the type of person who appreciates the arts and is interested in the sort of community commonly found only in academia or online book clubs. 1455 will be both refuge and incubator for personal creation, collaboration and kinship; alumni will return and this growing alliance will become an inexorable network, which will help drive enthusiasm and revenue, as well as preserve an entirely positive kinship that would otherwise be unobtainable.
The potential for growth via synergy with other organizations and locales is virtually endless. Established centers in need of bodies/revenue will benefit from the community, resources, and organization (plus credibility) the Moveable Feast consortium brings; in return, we will have additional venues to utilize, ensuring that this endeavor is as inclusive and diverse as possible, while serving as many writers as we are able.
Meet The Consortium Partners
Each partner in this consortium brings substantial experience leading workshops, understanding (and existing within) the broader literary industry, and their own networks of writers, readers, agents, editors, etc. More, the various organizations have all specialized in creating and sustaining communities via their existing programs.
Sean Murphy
Founder & Executive Director, 1455
In addition to growing his non-profit from idea to executing dozens of free programs, including Movable Type, a bi-monthly publication, a monthly Author Series, and annual Summer Festival that reaches a global audience, Sean previously served as writer-in-residence at the Noepe Center at Martha’s Vineyard, where he helped manage the writer residencies and design programming.
Jeanne McCulloch
Co-Founder, Todos Santos Writers Workshop
An editor at The Paris Review, Tin House, writer in the Features department at Vogue magazine, Jeanne McCulloch’s work has appeared in Vogue, Tin House, Elle, Allure, O Magazine, and The New York Times Book Review, among other publications. Her interviews with writers have appeared in the legendary Writers at Work series at The Paris Review, and in Tin House. She is the founding Editorial Director of Tin House Books. McCulloch has taught fiction and non-fiction at The New School for Social Research and at numerous summer writers conferences. Her recent memoir, All Happy Families, is published by Harper Collins.
Rex Weiner
Co-Founder, Todos Santos Writers Workshop
Rex Weiner’s feature articles have appeared in Vanity Fair, Los Angeles Magazine, Capital & Main, and The Paris Review. In addition to his journalism, produced screen credits include The Adventures of Ford Fairlane, the motion picture directed by Renny Harlin for 20th Century Fox. He was one of the first writers hired to help launch the TV series Miami Vice. His investigative article on refugees became the landmark TNT movie, Forgotten Prisoners: The Amnesty Files, made in partnership with Amnesty International. As a crime fiction writer with stories in Switchblade and Pulp Modern, his most recent book is The (Original) Adventures of Ford Fairlane (Rare Bird Books), He serves on the Board of Trustees of Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center in Venice, CA.
Justen Ahren
Founder, Noepe Center
Justen Ahren is the founder of the Noepe Center at Martha’s Vineyard and served as its Executive Director for more than a decade, establishing it as one of the most popular and beloved writing retreats in the country.
Justen Ahren is a poet, photographer, musician and writing workshop facilitator. He’s published two collections of poetry, A Strange Catechism (2013) and A Machine for Remembering (2019). His poems have been set to music by Grammy award-winning Composer Glen Roven, and Cuban composer Ileana Perez Valezquez. His photographs are held in private collections and have been exhibited in both solo and group shows. He’s received two commissions for poetry from Wendy Taucher Dance Theater Opera, and one from John Sims’ Afro Dixie Project. His album, The War For The Valley is available on here and on iTunes.
Karen Karbo
Founder, Karbohemia
Bienvenue! I’m not saying that to be fancy, I’m saying it because while I’m from the West Coast, I’m now an expat living in the south of France. I’m here partially for the sea and the light, and mostly because life is too short not to go for your dreams and a good glass of rosé. So cheers! And welcome to Karbohemia, land of books, retreats, writing classes, and more than a few blogs featuring baguettes. I’m an award-winning author, friendly skeptic, Great Pyrenees lover and have a new book coming out with a lot of cursing in it. I do what I like, and I like what feels good.
V Hansmann
Founder, Prospect Street Writers House
Prospect Street Writers House’s philosophy is embodied in poet Donald Hall’s maxim – “The friendship of writers is the history of literature.” Situated in the village of North Bennington, Vermont, Prospect Street celebrates written language and fosters literary discourse. Small classes, time to write, and good company form the basis of what this writers house has to offer. Prospect Street will be an Open House. The discoveries you make here will be incremental – find the missing chapter/scene/character in your novel, revive confidence in your poetic vision, jumpstart your project, meet the new friend who will be that perfect second reader for your manuscript. Come and find out.
Jenna Blum
Founder, A Mighty Blaze
Jenna Blum is the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of novels Those Who Save Us, The Stormchasers, and The Lost Family; the novella “The Lucky One” in the collection Grand Central; and memoir Woodrow on the Bench. Jenna is one of Oprah’s Top Thirty Women Writers, with her work published in over 20 countries, and cofounder/CEO of literary social media marketing company A Mighty Blaze. Jenna is based in Boston, teaching at Grub Street Writers, where she has been running master fiction and novel workshops for over 20 years.