ALOHA AND STAY TUNED….
After three amazing retreats at Kalani Honua on the Big Island of Hawaii, Pele’s Fire will be looking for a new home. The center is closed after being surrounded by lava in the eruption that began just weeks after our last retreat. Our next gathering will likely happen in 2020, and may begin to travel to different locations. If you are interested in finding out more, please subscribe for updates. Meanwhile, in 2019, Reiko will be teaching at TWO amazing … Read More
WOW! An Adriatic Adventure in Croatia
June 8-15, 2019 Duće, Croatia Framed as a “creative cultural sojourn,” this amazing retreat gives equal time to writing, relaxing and sightseeing. Rahna Reiko Rizzuto will be your guest artist. All writers, aspiring, emerging and established, are welcome. Enjoy the view from your room in one of two luxury villas in Duće, where the foothills of the Mosor Mountains meet the Adriatic Sea. Walk along white sand beaches, or walk into town; take an afternoon swim, immerse in Balkan culture—and … Read More
VORTEXT 2019
VORTEXT is an extraordinary weekend salon for women at the famed Whidbey Institute, led by renowned women writers. Join our workshop leaders, Ruth Ozeki, Karen Joy Fowler, Rahna Reiko Rizzuto, Natalie Baszile, Shobha Rao, Elmaz Abinader and Dylan Landis, to share writing, meals, conversation and community in a stunningly beautiful setting. (Reiko’s workshop description included below. For all others, please check out Hedgebrook’s site!) The program, now in its eighth year, gives writers the opportunity to connect in diverse and powerful … Read More
Celebrate With Us
This year, 2018, marks three significant occasions: It is the FINAL Pele’s Fire retreat held at Kalani Honua, and both Elena and Reiko are bring books into the world. Elena’s story collection, The Immigrant’s Refrigerator, will be published in February, and Reiko’s novel, Shadow Child is coming out on May 8th. Here is a sneak peek at both jackets, and a final reminder. Today is the last day to apply for the last Pele’s Fire. So if you want to … Read More
Dear Writers
Dear Writers, I have been thinking a lot about community lately: what it means to be a community of writers. To hear each other, to hold each other up, to stand in each others’ darkness unafraid, to turn up the volume on each other’s voices. This year, perhaps because I lost my father this summer, and I am breaking my ties to my childhood and my first home, I am thinking about the families we choose. The ones we create. … Read More
Join us in 2018
Enjoy this video of our 2017 memories and imagine yourself escaping to Hawaii in the cold! 2018 dates are February 28-March 6th. Flights are discounted for the offseason, so the time to act is now! We invite you to poke around on the website and apply. Deadline December 4, 2017. (With thanks to our photographer extraordinaire, Micael Storm Blue) FacebookPinterestLinkedinTwitterDiggTumblr
Awakening! Tarot for Writers
Do you need help grounding your writing? Want to know why you can’t focus, or what you should be focusing on? Maybe you want to know how to go forward. What’s next? Or, if you have come to a fork in the road, how do you choose? When I have questions like these, I pull a Tarot card. Often it’s a single card, which answers the question: What do I need to know right now? It’s been an incredibly helpful … Read More
Art As Activism
This interview was originally published on the Women Authoring Change blog for Hedgebrook, an amazing retreat for women writers. In their own words, “Our mission is to support visionary women writers whose stories shape our culture now and for generations to come. Our core purpose is equality for women’s voices to help achieve a just and peaceful world.” I highly recommend you go to their website and find out more. Hedgebrook: Tell us about your work as a writer—do you … Read More
On the Art of Waiting for Writing
Recently, Beth Kephart asked me to talk about my writing process and rituals, and writer’s block. She shared my answers in her Junctures newsletter. Reading over them now, I find myself wishing to be in that other country: writing. To capture what is coming through in the dark. And you? It’s been a hard post-election year for the country, and a hard 2016 for many of us. What does your 2017 look like? How will you find a way to … Read More
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WOW! An Adriatic Adventure in Croatia
June 8-15, 2019 Duće, Croatia Framed as a “creative cultural sojourn,” this amazing retreat gives equal time to writing, relaxing and sightseeing. Rahna Reiko Rizzuto will be your guest artist. All writers, aspiring, emerging and established, are welcome. Enjoy the view from your room in one of two luxury... Read More
ALOHA AND STAY TUNED….
After three amazing retreats at Kalani Honua on the Big Island of Hawaii, Pele’s Fire will be looking for a new home. The center is closed after being surrounded by lava in the eruption that began just weeks after our last retreat. Our next gathering will likely happen in... Read More
VORTEXT 2019
VORTEXT is an extraordinary weekend salon for women at the famed Whidbey Institute, led by renowned women writers. Join our workshop leaders, Ruth Ozeki, Karen Joy Fowler, Rahna Reiko Rizzuto, Natalie Baszile, Shobha Rao, Elmaz Abinader and Dylan Landis, to share writing, meals, conversation and community in a stunningly beautiful... Read More
Celebrate With Us
This year, 2018, marks three significant occasions: It is the FINAL Pele’s Fire retreat held at Kalani Honua, and both Elena and Reiko are bring books into the world. Elena’s story collection, The Immigrant’s Refrigerator, will be published in February, and Reiko’s novel, Shadow Child is coming out on... Read More