OUR  ​​20TH ANNIVERSARY
RETREATS ARE COMING!
(2007 - 2027)

​             OUR MISSION

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  • The first writers retreat was held in February 2007 with one session consisting of 28 writers. The idea was to create at least one time and place in the year where all but writing was put aside. The objective was to create an annual writers' gathering that focused on: 
            solitary and community writing...
            in an isolated environment...
            supported by a collective of contemporaries of like mind and pursuits.
  • Writers gather at a location of minimized outside interference or influence, ready to spend an intensive four or five days on their own work, with others involved in the same who were present for support and interactive development of written creative work as art, craft, and science. Balanced against this is a schedule of events aimed at supporting this process, with the number of retreat guests and attendees kept to a limit.
  • The retreats are held at the Rain Forest Resort Village situated on Lake Quinault, nestled on the Olympic Pennisula and the Quinault Rainforest. Local populations are small and centers of civilization are approximately 50 miles from the resort. Close enough for those who wish to seek them out, and far enough for others not to have to seek escape from them. The resort has no phones in the rooms or cabins, and has spotty cell phone service. It is its own little village, with a restaurant, general store, gift shop, lounge, post office, and laundromat on site.​ ​​
  • ​Participants get writing time free of work and daily social life. They get professional advice from, and interaction with, guests who have had success in the writing business.
This site is devoted to the development and planning of writers retreats hosted by the Rainforest Writers Village. Check other pages to learn about attending and getting involved.

Contact the retreat director through the contact form for more information or to get on the wait list.

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About the Retreat Director

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PATRICK SWENSON
Patrick is the author of the Union of Worlds trilogy (The Ultra Thin Man, The Ultra Big Sleep, and The Ultra Long Goodbye). Rain Music, a dark fantasy with ghosts, music, and magic, is set on the Olympic  Peninsula, at the very site of the Rainforest Writers Village retreat. He was the editor and publisher of Talebones Magazine from 1995 to 2009. In 2000, he began Fairwood Press, a book line, which is still running. He has sold short fiction to Unfettered III, Unbound II, Unavowed, Crooked V2, Gunfight on Europa Station, Seasons Between Us, Like Water for Quarks, ​Madame President, Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine, and others. He was a high school teacher for 39 years, and is the proud poppa of Artemis, who does some art now and then for Fairwood Press. Patrick's author site is at patrickswenson.net. Find him on Bluesky, Instagram and Facebook.

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