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Rosemary Daniell Reading at Barnes & Noble, Athens, GA 2007

PAJAMA PARTIES FOR GROWN-UP GIRLS WITH SMARTS!
   © 2004, Rosemary Daniell
  Our Divine Zona Rosa Creative Writing & Living Retreats, 2008

(and sometimes the guys drop in, too)

Where else can you get bliss, information, transformation, sisterhood, and the Foods of the Goddesses, all in one place?!

Here is what some of the Zona Rosans say about these one-and-two week retreats:

"It was the happiest two weeks of my life." - Rosemary Repeta, Charleston, South Carolina, referring to the two-week Zona Rosa retreat in the South of France, October, 2004

I know of longing for time to stand still
I know it doesn't
I know to relish
each point of joy in the journey
I do
Thanks for being
my joy in the journey.

      - Jill Davis, Auburn, Alabama 		“Rosemary doesn’t waste a minute and she gives her all.
When we were sharing, she was really listening to every word.
I go to workshops often and I found this one (to be) the best
one I have ever been to.”
- Franci Weston, San Antonio Zona Rosan

 

What one participant said of a recent writing workshop in Berkeley, CA:  "I still haven't come down to earth (don't want to), the workshop was like hearing all the music you want to hear, after not being able to find it for way too long...I realized how much I have missed the kind of talking, thinking, and laughter we had at the workshop.  That is what spurs me on in my work, no matter which medium I am using, thanks for your dynamic and sensitive energy."  - Sali, San Francisco

    

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                                           Rosemary Daniell’s
                                      Ninth Annual Pajama Party
                                for Grown-Up Girls With Smarts©
                                 Writers’ Retreat at Tybee Island

 

                                    

 

                                                             June 26 – July 3, 2010
                                                          (*15 minutes from Savannah, Georgia)
                                                                         Application below

                                        For information about Savannah & Tybee Island, please browse:
                                                 www.savannah-visit.com or www.tybeeisland.com

 

Rosemary Daniell is known as one of best writing coaches in the country. The author of SECRETS OF THE ZONA ROSA: HOW WRITING (AND SISTERHOOD) CHANGE WOMEN’S LIVES, and its prequel, THE WOMAN WHO SPILLED WORDS ALL OVER HERSELF: WRITING AND LIVING THE ZONA ROSA WAY. She is the founder and leader of Zona Rosa®, a series of creative writing workshops in Savannah, Atlanta, and cities throughout the country, as well as in Europe, as profiled in People, Southern Living and The South magazines. Over 80 Zona Rosans and counting has become published authors.

But first and foremost, she is the award-winning author of six other books of poetry and prose. Her revolutionary memoir FATAL FLOWERS: On Sin, Sex, and Suicide in the Deep South, won the 1999 Palimpsest Prize for a most requested out-of-print book. Along with her second memoir SLEEPING WITH SOLDIERS, it was a forerunner of the current memoir trend. Along with her four other books of poetry and prose, they were widely and nationally reviewed in many publications, among them Time, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Ms., and Rolling Stone. Rosemary has received many awards, among them two NEA grants, one in poetry, another in fiction. She has been published in such magazines as Mother Jones, Harper’s Bazaar, Self, New York Woman, and other magazines, as well as many literary publications. She has also appeared on a number of national radio and TV shows. In 2008, she was given a Governor’s Award in the Humanities for her impact on the state of Georgia.
A Pajama Party for Grown-Up Girls with Smarts©!

The weeklong workshop is intended for serious writers of fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry, as well as beginners who wish to become more serious about their writing, or simply use writing as a tool for healing or enrichment. The workshop will begin on Saturday afternoon, June 26, with an optional informal get-together at 5:00. From Sunday through Thursday, Rosemary will meet with writers during the mornings, then lead group sessions in the afternoons from Saturday through Thursday from two until five p.m. There will be plenty of time and space to write, and in the evenings we’ll have fun! The workshop will end with a reading on Thursday afternoon, followed by the annual Zona Rosa party at Rosemary's house in Savannah on Friday evening, July 2.

Check in at our house on Tybee, at 702 Butler Ave, will be after 3 p.m. on Saturday, June 26. Check out time at 10 a.m. , on Sat morning, July 3. Those who’d like to stay over on Tybee or in Historic Downtown Savannah for the July 4 weekend can do so by making further motel or hotel reservations for that time.

Registration Application

A Non-Refundable Deposit is due with application. Balance due on May 8. Directions to retreat house will be sent to registrants.

Name___________________________________________________________

Address_________________________________________________________

City__________________________________State_________Zip__________

Home Phone___________________________Fax_______________________

Cell
Phone__________________________e-mail___________________________

Workshop Fees
*Zona Rosa Sister $525_________
Current members of a monthly Zona Rosa group receive a review of 8-10 pages
of manuscript or 4-8 pages of poetry, a private consultation, and class time.

**Big Sister $550_________
Participants receive a review of 8-10 pages of manuscript or 4-8 pages of poetry,
a private consultation, and class time.

***Little Sister $425_________
Beginning writers or those interested in learning more about Zona Rosa
participate in class time and casual conversation with Rosemary and other writers.

****Accommodations $575__________
Accommodations are available at the retreat location, a large beach
house with full kitchen facilities situated a short walk to the ocean. Rooms are
assigned on a first-come, first served basis. (Please add a $200 supplement for
one of the few single rooms; if singles are no longer available, this will be
refunded to you. Keep in mind too that other rooms comfortable and congenial!)

***** Per day rates for those with other accommodations
With workshop reading and ms critique $100__________
With workshop participation only $ 75__________
(Deposit not applicable to per day rates) Deposit (Due with application) $500

Total__________

Balance Is Due for Those Staying at the Retreat House by May 8!

Print application & mail along with check made to Rosemary Daniell
to Rosemary Daniell, 1205 Skidaway, Savannah, GA 31404
For further information, contact Rosemary at rosemary@myzonarosa.com

 

 

                                                       The 2010 Conference
                                         July 28-July 31
                                            UF Hilton Conference Center, Gainesville, Florida

Friday's workshop:   POETRY–Walking Through Clouds, with Rosemary Daniell
Rosemary Daniell began her writing life as a poet 35 years ago and she still considers poetry to the creme de la creme of literature. In this workshop, Rosemary will take beginning poets through the journey of learning to write finished poems, as well as help more advanced poets to tighten and heighten their work, with the goal of publication in literary magazines and collections.

Saturday's workshop:   NONFICTION – What Geniuses Know, with Rosemary Daniell
Rosemary Daniell loves memoir and it shows: her two memoirs, FATAL FLOWERS and SLEEPING WITH SOLDIERS, were published to great acclaim and were the forerunners of the current memoir trend; she is currently at work on a new memoir, MY ANARCHIST'S HEART. In this workshop, she will help you sort and organize theevents of your life and find the arc in your story. She will also help you learn to add that dynamic wallop that makes a memoir exceptional.

See www.anhingawriters.org for more

 

Secrets of the Zona Rosa: How Writing (and Sisterhood) Can Change Women's LivesDear Friends And Zona Rosans,

Read this book and tell your friends about it! Then write a review of it on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or the bookstore site of your choice! (When you do, let us know, so Rosemary can personally thank you!)" 

Thank you,

Rosemary Daniell
Founder and Leader of Zona Rosa
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Read Gayla Crosby's Interview with Rosemary! Also savor the essays (including those by Rosemary and Zona Rosan Connie Baechler) in the new mind-blowing anthology DESIRE: WOMEN WRITE ABOUT WANTING edited by Lisa Solod Warren

HOT PINK ZONA ROSA NEWS FLASH!  Rosemary received a 2008 Governor's Award in the Humanities for her impact on the state of Georgia and was honored at a luncheon and received the award on May 8, 2008! Read all about it in this article in Connect Savannah!

If you missed Rosemary's appearance on "Cover to Cover" on Georgia Public Broadcasting  (91.1 fm) March 25 or April 7, 2007, you can view her Live Webchat at the GPB website.

Listen to Rosemary's interview with Dr. Alvin Augustus Jones. (This is a Windows Media file, and may require Microsoft Internet Explorer.)

 

  

 

Zona RosaKOKOPELLIWOMAN SPEAKS: Rosemary Daniell and the Zona Rosa writing group

Last Saturday was a day of spiritual and creative breakthroughs. My writing teacher, Rosemary Daniell, the High Priestess of the Zona Rosa writing group, was in town giving a workshop to the Austin/San Antonio Sub-Rosa women who are obsessed with writing. I attended a prior workshop last May, and immediately knew that this was the place for me. Rosemary, author of Secrets of the Zona Rosa, The Woman Who Spilled Words All Over Herself, Fatal Flowers, and others, was as usual, a rock of support and information. Mainly, she brings out the best in any writer. Her books on writing are among the most down-to-earth, just-in-time, get to the guts of the matter how-to books I've ever come across.

And the woman is a goddess. A genteel, sexy, brilliant, competent recovered Southern Belle, she has influenced the works of many of today's well-known authors. She is a consummate editor, and delivers the goods in a loving manner, tinged with a saucy Southern flirtatious approach.

She encourages women to write their truths, and helps them do so in a professional, confident manner. She believes that women have a vital imperative to reveal their inner selves in a way that is most natural to them. At the same time that she gives writers invaluable tools and cues to tighten and craft words to their greatest effect.

Rosemary is a breath of fresh air, a scintillating jewel, and writes like a fallen angel. I am proud to link to her Web site, and I urge any writer to take advantage of her wisdom and experience and juiciness.

You can buy her books on Amazon (only four left in stock, more on the way), Barnes & Noble, and Powell's Books sites. If you're a woman, and you're serious about writing, Rosemary is your go-to guru.

— Austin Zona Rosan Claudia Snowden, from her blog, Fried Okra Productions

  My time with you in Santa Fe at the Creativity   and Madness Conference was a holy time.

- Ryder Finnegan, Fayetteville, AR


Rosemary signing books with Terry Kay
Rosemary signing books with Terry Kay
at the Spoken Word at the Georgian Terrace Hotel
in Atlanta

Please contact Rosemary, too, if you would like to plan a Zona Rosa® workshop—one day, two days, or five days—for your area!

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