Lead by Molly O’Neill, essayist, food writer and memoirist, this intimate retreat will take place in a luxury wilderness lodge that is a forty-minute water taxi ride from Homer, Alaska. Removed from the usual sights, sounds, smells — and distractions — of modern life, writers will be immersed into a ravishing wilderness and offered the opportunity to delve into the sensory aspects of food writing. Through timed writing exercises, as well as instruction by three masters of the craft, Cook ‘n Scribble at Tutka Bay aims to keen the senses and to expand the writer’s awareness of the rhythms and realities of the natural world and its effect on voice and point-of-view in food narrative, personal essay, blog posts and memoir.
is for CHOICE and choosing and choose, an action that is best left unsaid. A perfect dish or a memorable sentence is, after all, the sum of choices. The cook selects ingredients. The writer chooses words. When successful, the sentence --- or the dish --- shivers the timbers, marks the moment, expands the universe. The creator's capacity to select is implicit, it is the life force that propels the work. Stating the obvious kills that pulse.
