The Pelee Island Writer’s Retreat has four more days left on the clock.
You can, right now, go there and sign up for a week-long writing retreat on the island with either Margaret Atwood or myself as your instructor. Margaret asked me to be a part of it, and in my experience, when she asks you something like that, you say yes. She could pull up in a wizard van full of mysterious birds and, you know, c’mon. You say yes to that adventure. You just do.
So, I said yes. And I want to teach the class, but I need a class to teach.
It’s on an island. In a lake. In Canada. It’s also an island with a bird observatory.
BIRDS, GODDAMNIT. BIRDS. I love birds! So exciting.
You buy the perk, you get room, food, and we get to hang out for a week to talk about how our stories work inside — and transcend — the boundaries of genre.
This will be huge. And fun. You should go.
Listen to Margaret Atwood! Join us! One of us! One of us.
LindaGHill says:
Sounds awesome! They make some mighty good wine on Pelee Island as well. 🙂
September 22, 2016 — 3:11 PM
Samantha Warren says:
This sounds amazing! Hey, Chuck, can I borrow $2k?
September 22, 2016 — 3:19 PM
Robert Brunet says:
If you need more encouragement, check this out: http://www.robbrunet.com/blog/2015/11/15/getting-to-the-point — it took me until last year to make it to Point Pelee. It’s beyond special.
September 22, 2016 — 3:24 PM
iwritedumbshit says:
Fried the motherboard on my computer – typing this from work – and I can’t even afford to buy a new one, let alone an Exit to Eden Vacation with Chuck Wendig in exotic Canada.
September 22, 2016 — 3:50 PM
Des Torres says:
And, yes… this place can change your frikkin’ live mah man. No shit. I came up here 30 years ago from NYC and am so befuddled at my fortune.
September 22, 2016 — 11:34 PM
Rebecca Douglass says:
Sure wish something like that were in the cards. Though Margaret Atwood scares me, ever since reading The Handmaid’s Tale. That book freaked me out. Just such a plausible progression of events.
September 24, 2016 — 12:47 PM
Andria Buchanan says:
Oh this sounds like so much fun. Wish I could sell the kids and use the $$ I make to pay the fees — and have a week without my kids around.
September 24, 2016 — 1:37 PM
brucearthurs says:
Margaret Atwood and Chuck Wendig should fight crime together. It’d make a great movie.
September 25, 2016 — 3:52 AM
Melissa Clare says:
Okay, so I must be into this because I tried like three times… I think it went through?
September 26, 2016 — 1:57 AM
S. J. Pajonas (spajonas) says:
Dude! I wish I was going!!
September 27, 2016 — 8:38 PM
DW Anderson says:
If only the dates were different. As a HS teacher, I’m stuck. No way they’d let me leave. Would’ve loved to dive in for a week.
BTW, I love that you’re doing things like this, Chuck. I hope another opportunity comes around like this.
September 29, 2016 — 2:19 PM
Christi Frey says:
This is a big deal! Holy smokees, congratulations! And congrats to all the class attendees!!
September 29, 2016 — 11:13 PM
poetry409 says:
My first thought was THIS IS AMAZING. My second thought was OMG I can’t choose between Margaret F***ING Atwood and Chuck F***ING Wendig. I JUST CAN’T CHOOSE.
September 30, 2016 — 11:11 PM
Michael Salsbury says:
Hi Chuck. I donated and requested the Wendig Workshop. I had hoped to meet you at ConText in Columbus but they shut that down. Then I found out you were at Gen Con but too late to get a hotel and make the trip. They say good things come to those who wait, so hopefully I’ll be seeing you next October and learning lots from you at Pelee Island.
October 6, 2016 — 6:31 PM