Meet the band…

We are exuberant, spiritual, playful, raucous, serious, centered, intense, brave, feral, explorers. We are creative, compassionate, introverts and extroverts, truth-seekers and truth-sayers, badasses with good taste.

  • Founder and Creative Heartbeat

    Witty, heartbreaking, and searingly true, Dulcie’s flair is as unique as she is. Trained as a therapist, Dulcie has been in private practice as a therapist in Maine for the past twenty-five years. Dulcie also started writing young; self-illustrated poems about snow monkeys and dead people. They came back to haunt her many years later, and she earned her MFA from Goddard College in Creative Writing and certification as a Gateless Writing Teacher.

    Dulcie is a founding editor of Minerva Rising and has had work published in The Pitkin Review, Rawboned and elsewhere. She teaches creative writing in Eindhoven, Netherlands with Watershed at their summer program, Camp Cushy. She completed a novel, Crooked Love, and is currently working on a professional memoir, Confessions of a Therapist. She believes sharing creative space gives power to the connections that fuel the creative process – giving life to something that wasn’t there before.

  • Business & Logistics Wrangler

    Pam’s creative self first whispered to her during a writing class in high school, emerging occasionally during her corporate life in the form of business proposals. Retirement – and the transformational WOW experience – has given Pam’s creative voice new volume, and she’s listening.

    Travel has enabled Pam to hear creative voices from other places. Whether living on her own in Slovakia or heading out on safari in East Africa, Pam has asked fundamental questions to better understand the human experience – how does tradition, history and experience shape culture? What makes people happy? The answers have shaped Pam’s perspective in life and in writing. Now she wants to share the magic of travel, inspiration, and setting provided by WOW retreats with other writers.

We are mothers, grandmothers, daughters, sons that used to be daughters, sisters, sexpots, crackpots and former addicts. We meditate, we write and we're not even all writers.

We're also so much more which is why we invite you to join us. You'll belong.

  • PhD, RYT
    Writing Facilitator & Yoga Teacher

    Being in Nancy’s morning practice class is not unlike listening to her read something she just wrote – feeling alive with the ocean, wind and hardscrabble earth, and, at the same time, what it is to be human, right here, right now. Nancy is a writer of songs, poetry, essays, two full-length fiction manuscripts in consideration for publication, and author of Wide Open Writing’s wonderful core text, Wide Open Writing: Embrace Your Creative Genius, winner of the prestigious Silver Nautilus Award and of Honorable Mention by the Indie Next awards. 

    Nancy has been a practicing psychotherapist for more than thirty years, earning her PhD from Columbia University. She’s studied mindfulness, body-mind integrative practices and EMDR. She’s fascinated by how new discoveries in the science of psychology weave together with ancient Eastern wisdom and embodied practice to inform our journeys to health. Her yoga practice of over twenty years led her to become a teacher of yoga, and then to certification as a teacher of Journey Dance, and in her favorite iteration of the work she loves, to creating and leading a unique and powerful blend of body-mind practices to open mind and body and spirit in the transformative context of Wide Open Writing retreats.

    For Nancy, every word matters, and yet the word is not the path – nothing matters more than phosphorescence and prayer.

We're moody, needy, high-maintenance noise-makers; nature and animal lovers, tree-huggers, cooks, painters, gardeners, singer-songwriters, dancers, Reiki masters, body workers, therapists and world travelers.

The Regulars

There are editors, writers, instructors, poets, guides, adventurers, professionals, professors, naturalists, authors, activists and more who are dedicated collaborators in our cause. These are the regular names and faces you’ll see guiding retreats, editing works, leading classes, and partaking in the mayhem and magic of writing.