Nostalgic for Some Radical Hospitality
What I wouldn’t give to be in the soothing, lulling calm of Hedgebrook Farms right now. I could use a little radical hospitality of the soul post November 8. I had the good fortune to attend a Master...
View ArticleHedgebrook Authoring Change – Interview of Rahna Reiko Rizzuto
Tell us about your work as a writer—do you write in multiple genres/forms? Sadly, yes. I’m a self-taught writer, so every time I write a book, I have to teach myself to write all over again, and it’s...
View ArticleThe Bookshelves of Hedgebrook by Ayobami Adebayo
When I was packing for my Hedgebrook residency, I chose four big novels and two anthologies to see me through the month I was to spend on Whidbey Island. I haven’t left the house without a book since I...
View ArticleA Safe Space in Tuscany By Katrina Woznicki
It’s not easy to sell off the last of your stock holdings, the very last thing you bought in your own name years ago, back when you were flush and earned a healthy bimonthly paycheck. Yet that’s...
View ArticleKelly Ford – Head of Housekeeping
I very recently came to be the head of housekeeping at Hedgebrook…how’s that for alliteration? I digress… I came to Hedgebrook as a part-time, back up housekeeper to the backup housekeeper. A dear...
View ArticleSuzanne Ushie
After I applied for a Hedgebrook residency, I dreamed of walking on a beach with a small group of strangers. Acres of water on the left, sleek boats bobbing on the blue; a place without a name. But I...
View ArticleDahlma Llanos-Figueroa
I was to begin my residency at Hedgebrook on Sept 26, 2017. I came to here, fully laden with a year’s worth of my very active and stressful life in NYC. I flew into Seattle a week early. I came to...
View ArticleRona Jaffe Foundation – 2018 Hedgebrook Fellowship
A Hedgebrook residency is a gift of freedom from duty, from physical and emotional labor, a stripping away of everything nonessential until you—the purest essence of you—are all that remains & you...
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