Writing in Response:
Southern Arizona and the Chiricahua Mountains
at the Sunglow Ranch, Pearce, Arizona
Date TBA

More Pictures of Chiricahua Mountains

Cave Creek near Portal, AZ
Photos by Robert Shantz

This is a three-day, two-night, open-hearted, writing retreat  with Paula Panich intended to develop the writer’s ability to respond to place: the foothills of the Chiricahua Mountains in southern Arizona, about 90 minutes southeast of Tucson.

Novice and experienced writers welcome. Writing instruction; feedback; writing time; hiking; stargazing; bird watching; delicious food.

This workshop will assist writers who see the world through almost any prism: landscape, geology, ornithology, biology, botany, ethnobotany, human relationships with the land and with each other.

All writers need to translate a sense of place to the page. Writing well about place is an art and a craft, and like with any art or craft, development takes practice and an awareness of the tricks of the trade.

Why Sunglow Ranch?

Sunglow Ranch offers lovely, not luxurious, not pretentious, rooms in a breathtaking setting in the foothills of the Chiricahuas. The dining room is beautiful, and the food delicious. A new meeting room has just been completed and is available for our use. There is a small lake, and paths for walking, hiking, and bicycling (bikes are available to rent) around the acreage of the ranch and into the Coronado National Forest.

We will have 12 hours of meeting time, including a student reading. There will be time for evening and early morning writing; hiking; lectures by a photographer, plant expert, and the director of Native Seeds/SEARCH. We will take a hiking trip to the mountains at the Chiricahua National Monument (12 miles from Sunglow Ranch); a field trip to the museum of the Amerind Foundation; and, if time allows, a trip to the famed Singing Wind Bookshop in Benson, Arizona.

 

Where can I find more information about the area?

Visit www.nyt.com ; do an advanced search for a free article entitled “A Land the Apaches Loved” by Rob Nixon that appeared on March 10, 2002.

Extending your trip

Tuition: $275 (due January 1, 2006)
Airfare, lodging and meals not included.
The workshop is limited to 12-14 people.

Contact Paula to Register
paula@paulapanich.com

What about lodging and food?

Please call or email
Sunglow Ranch directly:
14066 South Sunglow Road
Pearce, Arizona  85625
Toll Free: 1.866.786.4569
sunglow@vtc.net

What Paula's Students Say
About Her...

Paula Panich can zero in, like no one I know, on the problems with your writing and with your writing practice. She is able to tell you what you may have known yourself was wrong, but were ignoring. She does this in the nicest possible way, encouraging you, yet insisting at the same time that you be more precise, more honest than you have been with the subject at hand. She gives people everything she's got, and that's a lot: intelligence, training, taste, and hard-won practical knowledge on the art and craft of writing.
     ~ Maryann Macdonald, NYC
       (Author of 18 published books)

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