TAF2022 | WRITERS’ RETREATS

Sunday 2 to Saturday 15 October 2022

Kermandie Hotel, Port Huon

Drive, fly or sail to the Kermandie Hotel, located opposite the Port Huon marina, for dedicated time to work on your current manuscript or writing project.

Akin to a pop-up Varuna, you’ll join a supportive writing community where noise is kept to a minimum, meals are provided, and tutors check in with you daily. You’ll have nothing to do but write for a week or two.

Each participant receives:

-          their own room with ensuite and a writers’ desk,

-          daily continental breakfast and lunch served in the Writers’ Lounge, and dinner in the restaurant, and

-          a structured writing day and daily tutoring from leading Australian writers such as novelist Nigel Featherstone (literary stream) and author and publisher Lindy Cameron (crime and general genre stream).

Availability Update

*18 July 2022 Update: SOLD OUT

As of today, all available retreats have been reserved.

There may be cancellations, as we are still ten weeks out.

If you would like to join the waitlist for this year, please email felicity.lemon.tarwf@gmail.com with the information requested below.

Join the 2023 Retreats Email List

If you’d like to join the 2023 retreats, they will be held between Saturday 21 October and Sunday 11 November 2023 for various lengths of time - 6 nights and 4 nights - in conjunction with our major biennial festival activities on 26 to 29 October 2023.

Our fabulous Writer in Residence in 2023 is Ann Cleeves. Please note Ann will not be staying at the retreat accommodation, but will be offering a masterclass or two as well as appearing at other events.

Prices and Inclusions

Room types included single, double, queen, king and two-bedroom. Two-bedroom units can be for a single writer on retreat, charged at a queen price/ You do not have to share.

All prices quoted below are Earlybird. Some include GST, some don’t - please check details.

One Week Prices, including:

• 6 nights’ accommodation,

• 5 days of structured writing time,

• 6 tutor-led sessions,

• 6 breakfasts, 5 lunches, 6 dinners.

In a Queen room, prices starting from $1800, including GST, for the 6 night retreat outlined above. Airport transfers are $33 one way, if your flight times match a scheduled transfer.

Please supply the information requested below for a writers retreat enquiry.

Premium Two Week Package

Make significant progress on your new work with a two week retreat.

Stay from Sunday 2 to Saturday 15 October.

• 13 nights’ accommodation,

• 12 tutor-led sessions,

• 10 days of structured writing time, and

• 13 breakfasts, 10 lunches, 12 dinners.

Prices from $3,700 plus GST, in a Queen room.

Best Value Bundle

Learn new skills and apply them to your work in progress. Combine the Premium Two Week Package with 6 Masterclasses across Saturday 8 and Sunday 9 October for a 20% discount on masterclasses (cannot be used in conjunction with the 10% discount for masterclasses).

• 6 masterclasses,

• 13 nights’ accommodation,

• 12 tutor-led sessions,

• 10 days of structured writing time, and

• 13 breakfasts, 10 lunches and 12 dinners.

Prices from $4,162 including GST, in a Queen room.

Australian Publishing Industry weekend intensive

If you wish to attend the Australian Publishing Industry weekend intensive on Saturday 15 and Sunday 16 October, please let us know when enquiring about your writers’ retreat. If you apply and are offered a spot, we can arrange extended accommodation for you at a festival discount rate at Kermandie.

Additional Nights

When booking a retreat, please let us know if you would like to extend your stay by arriving earlier or staying for longer. We may be able to offer an extension of your accommodation at a discount festival rate. 

*All prices are Earlybird. Writers’ Retreat prices rise by 10% on 1 August 2022.

Airport Transfers

Kermandie Hotel can offer one airport transfer run (Kermandie to Hobart to Kermandie; or just one way) on Sunday 2, Saturday 8, Sunday 9 and Saturday 15 October, based on a minimum of 8 passengers each way. A one-way transfer will be $33 per person.

Guests arriving at the airport between approximately midday and 3.30 pm will be met on these days. Those who arrive before 3.30 pm may be transferred to central Hobart to enjoy sightseeing until a later pick up, at no extra charge. Sunday transfers arrive at Kermandie at approximately 6 pm.

Guests leaving the Kermandie will be transferred in the morning to the airport, and may be asked to be ready to leave as early as 7 am. The time will depend on the earliest flights of guests leaving that day; plenty of notice will be given to all guests of departure time. To allow sufficient time for a transfer, the possibility of morning traffic, check-in and security, it is best to book flights leaving no earlier than 11.30 am, though early afternoon would be preferable.

Additional days may be added if sufficient guests request them.

We can’t guarantee a transfer on other days or at other times, but will work with you to find options that suit you. For example, an additional transfer on Monday 17 October from Kermandie to the airport is looking likely.

Explore the Huon Valley on a Door-to-Door Tour

The Kermandie will offer a day tour for retreat guests on Wednesday 5 October.

It will include a morning sail on the Huon with Sail Kerrawyn and an afternoon at Hastings Caves and Thermal Pool, with a packed lunch from the hotel.

$147 pp.

How to Secure Your Place

Reminder: Prices will rise by 10% from 1 August.

To begin booking your personal writers’ retreat package, please send a brief email to:

felicity.lemon.tarwf@gmail.com

with the Subject Heading: Writers’ Retreat Enquiry

Please tell us briefly (cut and paste this list into your email): 

1. Your name, phone number and home postcode?

2. The retreat you wish to book? Please specify your dates - 2 to 8 October, 9 to 15 October, or 2 to 15 October.

3. A 1-3 sentence summary of your project (i.e. what you’ll work on at your retreat, including the field/genre, and your aims at the retreat).

4. Do you prefer a smaller bedroom (single, double)/larger bedroom (queen, king)? Or a two bedroom unit for two writers?

5. Do you have any accessibility needs? (All rooms are wheelchair accessible, though some are more convenient than others.)

6. Do you wish to bring another writer or non-writer with you?

7. How will you travel to the Huon Valley? If flying, would you like airport transfers?

8. Will you attend any masterclasses on 8 and/or 9 October? If yes, which ones?

9. Are you applying for the Australian publishing industry weekend intensive on 15 and 16 October?

10. Will you attend any of the three special dinners/book events? (For details, please see the three events listed at the on this page (i.e. click here).) If yes, which ones?

11. Is there anything else you’d like to ask us or let us know?

We’ll then finalise the quote for your retreat and double-check it with you.

A minimum $500 deposit will be required at the time of booking confirmation - possibly more depending on the options you choose, with the balance to be paid on 30 September.

Please note that while some reimbursements will be available and will be set out in terms and conditions before purchase, insurance companies in general aren’t insuring COVID-related reasons for guest cancellation.

TAF2022 Program

Click each link below for:

• Public Program overview (2 to 30 October 2022)

• Professional Development Program overview

• Weekend of Masterclasses, including 2 day Publication Stream Pass (8 and 9 October 2022)

• Introduction to the Australian Publishing Industry Weekend Intensive (15 and 16 October 2022)

*Reminder: Batch 1 applications for the Introduction to the Australian Publishing Industry Weekend Intensive are due Thursday 30 June.

Acknowledgments

Terror Australis Readers and Writers Festival is supported by the Tasmanian Government through Events Tasmania, Arts Tasmania and Libraries Tasmania, and is supported by the Huon Valley Council.

This project is supported by RANT Arts and the Australian Government through the Regional Arts Fund Recovery Boost program and received grant funding from the Australian Government under the Recovery for Regional Tourism program, an initiative of the $1 billion COVID-19 Relief and Recovery Fund.

TARWF is also grateful to all its supporters and partners for helping to make this program possible.