Casa Mismac

05/09/2025

We are accepting applications for January, February and March, 2026. There are some fantastic flight deals right now! I'm looking forward to meeting new writer guests and reconnecting with returning guests.

Casa Mismac is a self-guided writing retreat in Costa Rica welcoming writers of all experience levels and genres—your writer's sanctuary in paradise.

08/01/2025

A fantastic opportunity to try out writing with a supportive group. Check it out, sign up, donate and write!

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01/01/2025

Win a retreat!!

🌟 Announcing the 2025 Limnisa Short Story Competition! 🌟

Are you ready to unleash your creativity and win a one-week writing holiday by the sea in beautiful Greece? 🏖️✨

Here’s everything you need to know to join:
🖋 Word Count: 1500 words max
🆓 Participation: Free!
📅 Deadlines:
- Stories in Dutch: January 19, 2025
- Stories in English: February 2, 2025

📌 How to enter:
1. Write your story and submit it before the deadline.
2. Follow us on social media.
3. Share this competition with your friends!

💻 Full details & rules here: www.limnisa.com

We can’t wait to dive into your amazing stories. 🌊📖 Start writing today and take the chance to join us in Greece!

Good luck, writers! 🍀

03/12/2024

Writing, coffee and fireworks! Start your writing year off with a bang at Casa Mismac this New Year's. We have space Dec. 28, 2024 until Jan. 6, 2025.
See how coffee is processed on a working coffee farm, watch the entire Central Valley light up with fireworks as the new year arrives, and write your heart out in the company of other writers.
Use discount code FIREWORKS for 10% off on applications received before December 17, 2024.

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03/12/2024

I have a short prose piece in the upcoming issue of Peregrine, the literary journal of Amherst Writers & Artists. I and others will be reading our work online this Sunday at 2 pm EST. If anyone's interested in listening in on the one-and-a-half-hour launch, please PM me and I'll send you the zoom link. If you're interested in purchasing the anthology, you can do so on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DNK9K1KW for American orders
https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0DNK9K1KW for Canadian orders

Peregrine: The Caregiving Issue

28/06/2024

Last summer I had an incredible guest poet, Gabriel Ulrike Stauf. She wrote this beautiful poem for me and recently published a poetry book inspired by her month here at Casa Mismac. I feel so honoured and blessed by the people who come and visit.
https.//casamismac.com

26/06/2024

Applications for January, February and March, 2025 will be accepted beginning August 1, 2024.

16/05/2024

My home for the next 2 weeks. Limnisa Greece.

https://limnisa.com/

26/03/2024

My friend, Deepam Wadds, a woman who I’ve written with for more than a dozen years has published a fantastic novel, What the Living Do. Here’s what may be the first unsolicited review: https://mastersreview.com/book-review-what-the-living-do-by-susan-e-wadds/
I’m so happy for her. It was perhaps 5 years ago, sitting at a Writer’s Sanctuary in Sue Reynolds’s living room that I said, “I can’t believe that you aren’t the toast of the Canadian literary world.” Her work is that good. Check out the review, head to your local indie bookstore or Apple Books or Amazon and buy it. You won’t be sorry and you’ll make Deepam Wadds happy.

Thirty-seven-year-old Brett Catlin is perhaps more comfortable with animals than people, and even though she handles a fair amount of roadkill, she and her driving partner, Mel, at the road maintenance job where she works, make sure to treat every deceased creature with dignity. But when she is sudd...

03/02/2024

Just another day in Paradise. One spot left for early March and one spot for the first week of April. It’s kinda nice here.

19/01/2024

Just another beautiful morning. 🇨🇷