HOW WE SHOW UP FOR YOU AND YOUR WRITING
Detailed discussion, edits, and critiques on your manuscript by best selling authors and editors Gina Frangello and Emily Rapp Black.
Face-to-face communication over Zoom calls, writing retreats, and online classes to get to know you, your needs, and your story.
“Gina Frangello and Emily Rapp Black are two of the finest writers in the world…but they’re also two of the absolute best teachers of writing, as well. You’ll learn more in an editorial letter from Gina than you ever learned in school and Emily will make you go deeper than you ever imagined you could go to find the essential truth of your work. These two women are the real deal.”
-Tod Goldberg, New York Times bestselling author
Bringing cross-sectional expertise to every area of Circe’s endeavors
Both Gina and Emily are longtime educators at the university level, have published numerous memoirs, novels and short story collections, and have fostered dozens of books into the world as editors, publishers and ghost-writers.
We specialize in working with survivors of loss, illness, and grief and have collective experience in facilitating therapeutic groups and life coaching.
“Compelling, honest, and thought-provoking, Gina Frangello’s memoir is an inspired addition to her astounding body of work.”
-Charlize Theron
JOIN US IN JOSHUA TREE!
JOSHUA TREE RETREAT
April 30 – May 4
Join Gina Frangello and Circe Consulting for a long and restorative weekend of writing, questing, community, and pleasure-seeking, immersed in the magic of Joshua Tree National Park (but with all the comforts—and more—of home).
Featuring local guest writers Emily Rapp Black and Rob Roberge, and desert healer Athanasia Medenas, participants have a choice of staying at either of two sister properties, 29 Palms Inn or Campbell House for a special 10% Circe discount. Private and shared occupancy available, so you can choose your own adventure.
With arrival on Wednesday, April 30, and departure on Sunday, May 4, your time in between will be overflowing with intensive generative writing, craft talks, consultations, and readings, as well as one immersive day of healing and exploration that includes yoga, a vision quest, sound bath, energy healing, and psychic readings. In short, you’ll experience the best of the desert’s myriad offerings…and reawaken your own creativity along the way.
All meals provided, ranging from continental breakfasts and homemade farm-to-table picnic lunches, to home cooked dinners and a special finale dinner celebrating the local food scene.
Excursions include not only the stunning Joshua Tree National Park but a sampling of the desert’s vibrant arts and music scene!
Suitable for all writers of prose, at any experience level.
Cost*: $2,000
*Accommodations—because we are giving you a choice—are not included in the cost of the retreat. You must be staying at 29 Palms Inn or Campbell House to be included in the breakfast plan. However, there are wide-ranging accommodation options, from Airbnbs to funky motels to glamping, so whatever your taste, the desert is your oyster.
We can’t wait to show you our natural playground!
“[An] often beautiful jewel of a book . . . Black’s power as a writer means she can take us with her to places that normally our minds would refuse to go.”
—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)
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