Write Doe Bay

Doe Bay Resort and Retreat on Orcas Island is known for its rustic charm, world-class farm-to-table café and its annual music festival, Doe Bay Fest. For the past three years, something else has grown on the resort’s pristine 38-acres: a boutique writing workshop drawing first-class talent. Write Doe Bay unlocks narratives and opens creative paths, uniting artists of every genre along a common thread: the story of it all.

Write Doe Bay is a weekend-long retreat for creatives of all levels and all genres with two-full days of workshops, lodging, chef-prepared meals, and an intimate concert at Doe Bay Resort’s infamous Yoga Studio. Write hosts award-winning authors/ writers of genres ranging from memoir, fiction, poetry, short story, historical fiction, young adult novels, songwriting, artistic process, storytelling, making. We welcome participants at any stage of their creative path including those who are ready to take their first steps.

Write Doe Bay’s April 7-10, 2016 Spring Workshop is open to just 25 participants. Ticket price is $800 and includes workshop tuition, materials, resort accommodations, and chef-prepared meals. A few tickets remain. Visit www.writedoebay.com for more information.

TARA CONKLIN was an international human rights lawyer before writing the acclaimed historical fiction debut novel The House Girl. The House Girl a New York Times bestseller, #1 IndieNext Pick and Target book club pick. Her second, The Last Romantics, is forthcoming in 2017 from William Morrow/Harper Collins. Her short fiction has been shortlisted for the Bridport, Mslexia and Bristol prizes and published in the Bristol Prize Anthology and Pangea: An Anthology of Stories from Around the Globe. Tara was born on St. Croix, US Virgin Islands and grew up in western Massachusetts. Previously she has worked as a waitress, event organizer, card dealer, human rights advocate and corporate lawyer. Tara now writes full time while looking after her 3 kids, 2 gerbils and 1 chameleon in Seattle.

SIERRA NELSON is a poet, performer and instillation artist. She is the author of In Case of Loss and I Take Back the Sponge Cake. Her poems have appeared inside Seattle Metro buses, the Seattle Aquarium, and with Nordic runes in Reykjavik, Iceland, and in journals such as Tin House, Poetry Northwest, Pleiades and Crazyhorse. She is a Macdowell Colony Fellow, Pushcart Prize Nominee and the recipient of the Carolyn Kizer Prize. She teaches in Seattle and Friday Harbor, Washington and Rome, Italy.

ADRA BOO is a vocalist, songwriter, producer, emcee, and burlesque singer. She is half of the dynamic powerhouse behind the indie-soul musical group Fly Moon Royalty. Adra has been making waves around Seattle for a while now as a freelancer, hosting and performing at various events. She started off in theater, learning about all things stage-related, moving into spoken word poetry, and through aligning of the planets, was introduced to hosting club events, doing burlesque and cabaret, and then writing and performing original works. There’s not much that Adra cannot do, and for those things she cannot, she has a plan.

KAREN FINNEYFROCK is the author of two young adult novels: The Sweet Revenge of Celia Door and Starbird Murphy and the World Outside, both published by Viking Children’s Books. She is one of the editors of the anthology Courage: Daring Poems for Gutsy Girls and the author or Ceremony for the Choking Ghost, both released on Write Bloody press.  She is a former Writer-in-Residence at Richard Hugo House in Seattle and teaches for University of Washington and Seattle Arts and Lectures’ Writers-in-the-Schools program.

DANIEL BLUE is best known as the singer/lyricist in the Seattle folk/rock band Motopony. Having released three records the band has toured half way around the world to festivals in India and shows in the UK as well as circling the US twice in the past 12 months.  When in the UK the band had found themselves in Abbey Road Studios with producer Rob Cass and recorded a live EP. Rob took to Daniel’s spirit and writing and immediately offered to record his debut solo album.  Having worn many hats and many pants in the “creativity” world, from fashion design, graphic design, painting, directing, theater, and rock stardom…  poetry, song and prose seem to bring him the most in joy to success ratios.  Daniel is currently putting the finishing touches on his solo record, learning to Instagram, blogging his adventures, writing a new record with Motopony and writing one on one with musicians he loves.

Tickets are available through the Write website. For more information about the workshop or to purchase tickets please visit www.writedoebay.com.

Questions? Please email Jennifer Beck Furber (Friday Harbor) or Rebecca Blue (Seattle) at writedoebay [@] gmail.com.

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