UPCOMING: REPEAT RELEASE
We love writing + reading + walks in the rainforest, so are having a writers retreat – RETREAT RELEASE – in spring.
The concept: we all go away for a weekend in the Otways (for my northern hemisphere friends think: Big Sur or the PNW) and bash out a piece of writing. Serious space and time for writing; two days of furious writing broken only by communal meals. But we don't read each others' work, or talk about it too much.
We submit our pieces to the editor who compiles them for publication. We all chip in printing costs; do a nice, editioned run of little books; then have another weekend where we meet back up in the Otways, in summer. We hand out the little anthology and read each others' work for the first time: alone or in a group, at the beach, in the rainforest, in a field, at a desk, wherever. Really READ them – all day.
Then we get back together at the dinner table, crack open a bottle of red, share a slow cooked meal of roasted root vegetables and local lamb, some Greek beans, and talk talk talk about what we've just read.
Retreat Release (in alphabetical order):
Jad Choucair
James Spinks (writer + illustrator)
Rachel Elliot-Jones (ed)
Nicholas Dowse (Honey Fingers founder)
Steph Donse
MORE:
On bees:
'Beekeeping as a Contemplative and Meaningful Practice', The Bee Project, Publications for Pleasure, October 2016
'Honeybees: Five Cosmic Bee Facts', The Planthunter, February 2016
'Smoking the Bees', Hotel Hotel Blog, January 2016
'Swarm Traps: The Hive Mind', Assemble Papers, August 2015
'Organic Honey vs Local Honey: A Brief User's Guide', Assemble Papers, May 2014
'Sticky Fingers: A Story About Nomadic Beekeeping', HOUSE WEAR 2, November 2013
On architecture:
'Raw like sushi… Or the story of the misunderstood brutes of concrete architecture', Hotel Hotel Blog, May 2016
'Sean Godsell and the Verandah: A Brief User's Guide', AR (Architectural Review Asia Pacific AR141), August 2015
'MPavilion: A Brief History and User's Guide', Assemble Papers, October 2014
'Studley Park Modern' in Australian Modern, 2012
'Step-Up: A Story About Verandahs', HOUSE WEAR 1, September 2011
In a previous life:
Founder, Robin Boyd Homes Group.
