“The Berton House Writer’s Residence Retreat provides a unique opportunity for a professional Canadian creative writer to work in a remote Northern community. The writer is housed free of charge in the boyhood home of author Pierre Berton in Dawson City, Yukon. This program was initiated by Pierre Berton and is organized by the Yukon Arts Council in Whitehorse and the Klondike Visitor’s Association and the Dawson City Libraries’ Association in Dawson City.”

Whitehorse,  Yukon Territory,  Canada
http://bertonhouse.yk.net/program.html

“For nearly thirty years, the Saskatchewan Writers and Artists Colony has served thousands of Saskatchewan and Canadian writers and artists by providing a quiet refuge where creative people can come together and practise their craft.”

“This colony uses the facilities of The Quest at Christopher Lake, a Baptist camp and retreat centre. Christopher Lake is located in a forest region approximately 60 km northwest of Prince Albert. The colony site is at the north end of Christopher Lake on thirty-five acres of forested land with one and a half kilometres of shoreline. To the north and across the lake to the east is unoccupied, forested Crown land..”

Christopher Lake,  Saskatchewan,  Canada
http://www.skwriter.com/programdesc.asp?id=22

“Founded in 1969, the Saskatchewan Writers Guild is a province-wide organization representing writers in all disciplines and at all levels of development. It is one of the largest writers organizations in Canada with a membership of over 500. The Guild’s mission is to improve the status of the writer in Saskatchewan.”

Saskatchewan,  Canada
http://www.skwriter.com/

“For nearly thirty years, the Saskatchewan Writers and Artists Colony has served thousands of Saskatchewan and Canadian writers and artists by providing a quiet refuge where creative people can come together and practise their craft.”

“The colony location, St. Peter’s Abbey, is a Benedictine monastery set in a serene rural location a short tree-lined walk from the village of Muenster. The larger town of Humboldt is 10 km away. St. Peter’s operates a press, greenhouse, gardens, farm, and vocational high school on its grounds.”

“Once again, individual retreats are being offered almost year-round at St.Peter’s Abbey. These retreats allow individuals to choose a period of time to work on their own. Individual retreats are limited to Saskatchewan residents and to one week per person annually.”

Muenster,  Saskatchewan,  Canada
http://www.skwriter.com/programdesc.asp?id=39

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Check out the workshop page for a creative writing experience in Pari, Tuscany (in connection with the Pari Center for New Learning).

Ottawa,  Ontario,  Canada
http://http-server.carleton.ca/~thenigha/index.htm

“The Windmills is a hilltop retreat in south-western Majorca, with views of the mountains and the sea. Far from the madding crowds, the beaches and the bars, it is a tranquil place where people who are serious about their writing will find an atmosphere that brings out the best in them.”

“Once a year The Windmills hosts a week-long residential writing course as well as offering facilities for writers’ retreats at other times.”

island of Majorca (or Mallorca),  Spain
http://www.thewritingmill.org/

“The MacDowell Colony was founded in Peterborough, New Hampshire, in 1907. The Colony’s mission today, as it was then, is to nurture the arts by offering creative individuals of the highest talent an inspiring environment in which to produce enduring works of the imagination. More than 250 writers, composers, visual artists, photographers, printmakers, filmmakers, architects, interdisciplinary artists, and those collaborating on creative works come to the Colony each year from all parts of the United States and abroad.”

Peterborough, New Hampshire,  United States
http://www.macdowellcolony.org/