Florida Keys Retreat:

Find Your Story

November 3-6, 2023

Key Colony Beach,
Florida Keys

Have people told you that you should write a book? Do you think you have an idea for the next hit series? Do you need to revise a novel, script or essay? Are you looking for a new approach?

This retreat, in the heart of the Florida Keys, features award-winning novelist and memoirist Pam Houston. It’s a generative workshop with focused craft talks and exercises led by Pam and Call to Adventure founders, Liz and Betsy.

Experienced and newer writers will learn tricks and approaches that both prose and screenwriters use to get to the real story. If you are not yet sure what form your story will take or if you need a little inspiration, this is the retreat for you.

What’s Included:

  • Whole-group sessions

  • Craft Talks and prompts to get you writing

  • Welcome dinner, daily lunch

  • Time to write

  • We’ll be right on the beach!

  • Post-retreat two-hour follow-up session with a Call to Adventure mentor

  • One-on-one sessions offered for up to two months following workshop at additional cost

$2,000 (includes accommodation)

$750 for locals (no accommodation)

Installment plans and special rates for shared rooms are available.

Please contact betsy@calltoadventure.media or liz@calltoadventure.media to inquire.

Key West Mentors

Pam Houston

Award winning author of novels, short stories and essays: Cowboys are My Weakness, Deep Creek, Contents May Have Shifted

Liz Keyishian

Executive Producer for Call to Adventure, tv and kids’ animation writer, Screenwriting Professor: Izzy’s Koala World, Sesame Street, Lonesome Dove

Executive Producer for Call to Adventure, Documentary and feature film-maker, Reality TV Producer: Emergency Vets, A Six Voice Home, Apartment 212

Betsy Leighton

A great place to write
Sunshine, an ocean breeze and inspiration

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Testimonial

“When you leave this retreat, you will be a better writer or, at the very least, your mind and body will be more open to accomplishing the things that you want to accomplish. Also, you’ll meet incredibly inspirational people who are warm, supportive and fun.”

-2023 Marathon Key Writer

"In writing, habit seems to be a much stronger force than either willpower or inspiration. Consequently there must be some little quality of fierceness until the habit pattern of a certain number of words is established. There is no possibility, in me at least, of saying, “I’ll do it if I feel like it…” Perhaps there are people who can work that way, but I cannot. I must get my words down every day whether they are any good or not."

-John Steinbeck