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We know how to live through their eyes. We can always play their games, but are we denying ourselves by doing this? If you're going to carry the ugly green frogskin of conformity over you, you are going to suppress the beautiful prince or princess within you

—Harry Hay
Trebor Healey Hosts Writers Workshop at Saratoga Springs
Retreat Center Mission

Writing from the Four Directions facilitated by Trebor Healey

Calling all writers, poets, memoirists, essayists, journalers and anyone who has ever dreamed of exploring their life experience and the world around them through the written word. We invite you to come crack open your heart, your spirit, the treasure trove of your inner life.

Acclaimed poet, novelist, and workshop leader Trebor Healey is facilitating a writing workshop and retreat for the LGBT community at Saratoga Springs Retreat Center, 20 minutes east of Ukiah in Northern California.

Trebor Healey is one of our most powerful and authentic GLBT writers in the field today. Trebor Healey, winner of two Publishing Triangle awards, a Violet Quill Award and a Lambda Literary Award, and the author of A Horse Named Sorrow, Faun and Sweet Son of Pan, will be facilitating this writing workshop.  

A popular workshop leader, Trebor is hugely inventive, fun and deeply devoted to the experience of being gay today. He has taught a wide variety of workshops, including at the Between the Worlds Queer Men’s Gathering in Ohio, the LA Gay and Lesbian Center, San Francisco’s LYRIC and St. Paul’s Quatrefoil Library, as well as at universities, arts centers, youth centers and men’s gatherings around the country. Check his website for more information on his work.

Open to all who are interested in exploring via the written word,

WHEN?  -     Wednesday, February 11 through Sunday, February 15, 2015

WHERE?  -  Saratoga Springs Retreat Center  10243 Saratoga Springs Rd, Upper Lake, CA 95485

HOW MUCH? - Cost for this workshop is sliding scale $395-595, based on your ability to pay, and includes all meals, lodging, taxes and fees.

MORE INFO  - Saratoga Springs is a secluded and unique environment that provides sanctuary for this work. We will connect with the natural world around us by walking, meeting in groups for discussion and exercises, as well as having the opportunity to work on our writing in solitude. Trebor will provide individual attention FOR EACH PARTICIPANT, and we will also do some EROTIC WRITING as well as collective writing exercises as we create a community over the 5 days of our work together.

Registration & Information

Please fill out the following form and we will contact you with more information.  Registration deadline has been extended to January 31, 2015. 

Saratoga Springs: 707-275-9503 | email

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