Hill House Writers Retreat

When Breakfast is served you write!

Welcome to our home, The Hill House Bed and Breakfast (click for Rates)and grant based writers retreat (click for policies). My husband Ron and I are currently fulltime writers. We live on a thirty-four acre farm1 ½ hours south of Nashville, outside the sleepy town of Pulaski, TN.

When I first considered buying the farm, I wasn't seeking a writer's retreat. I was seeking a homestead. The land was gorgeous. The farm was amazing: rolling hills with a constant breeze. It had two ponds, natural springs, fruit trees, pasture, garden, and studio; but there was this whole downstairs area that had its own kitchen. I kept asking, "What am I going to do with all those rooms?" If you write anything like I do, you may have experienced a unique creative phenomena: when you ask the universe a question, you will get an answer.

Formerly a retirement home, the house was shouting "Writers and Artist retreat!!" Although Ron and I had, in the past, attended numerous writers' conferences and MF A residencies, it was the personal retreat where I had once rented a little cottage on a monastery for three days, and the bed and breakfast that we stayed at in Italy that had nurtured us the most.

Whether it be ourselves (yes, sometimes we need to nurture ourselves) our kids, women, men, artists, writers or songwriters; one of our simple delights in life has always been to support the creative expression in those around us. We have always been impassioned with the desire to assist others on the creative path- because we know how hard it can be. We also know that when starting a new project it helps to be nurtured into the experience. Hence our motto: When breakfast is served, you write!
Come join us, apply for the grant and find you own way to the hill.

KAREN WALASEK Prop.

In Native American religions: "The Hill is the place where you go to vision quest. Literally, it could be a hill or in a valley or in a sweat lodge or by a stream - wherever you go to fast and pray at the same time. Not all people call it vision quest - some call it fasting. But the purpose is prayer, solitude, finding out who you are or what the creator has called for you to do in your life next or in the future. Going on The Hill is taking the time to do these things. Turning back to the hill is the same as choosing to live your life in a way that is in line with the creator's purpose for you and committing yourself to finding what that is." - Jackie Tice, Singer songwriter, extraordinaire

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