📍 Creative Play Residency, Cam Nam Island, Hội An, Vietnam

🗓 January 25–30, 2026

Arrival day is Sunday, January 25, which gives us a full five-day week together, with departure on Friday, or, if you prefer, on the following weekend.

💸 Community-Supported Pricing: see details below

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Whether you’re coming back to your words after a long pause, beginning a new project, or simply craving time to be with your thoughts on paper. Whether you’re working on a book, a Substack, poems, personal essays, or just trying to make sense of what’s been unfolding. You don’t need to be a “writer,” you just need to want to write.

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Who This Is For

This retreat is open to 12 participants of all backgrounds, disciplines, and geographies. We especially welcome:

• Writers in transition or re-beginning

• Global nomads, expats, or third-culture creatives seeking community

• Artists, activists, or facilitators with writing projects

• Anyone craving a slow, intentional, and nourishing space to write

• Discover our Application Criteria

What You Can Expect

• Daily co-writing sessions and solo time
• Delicious lunch & dinner included (breakfast at your respective accomodation)
• Shared rituals to begin and end the day
• Light group reflection and peer support
• Creative prompts and movement-based practices
• One-on-one guidance and coaching
• Optional evenings to share, read, or just be
• Visits to local artisans and craftspeople
• A slow pace, space to rest, and no pressure to perform
• The chance to be surrounded by beauty, nature, and a small group of thoughtful humans

What Will We (Not) Do?

Every day will be different, and we’ll do our best to keep a balance between structure and spaciousness, staying in reciprocity with our individual and collective needs.

So take this flow as an example, to give you a bit of orientation.

Beyond the writing workshops, we've planned a few group activities, including an Open Mic Night and a Lazy Day for rest and reflection. We'll also provide a curated list of local experiences you can explore independently or with fellow writers: Hội An's Old Town in the evening, local craftspeople workshops (weavers, pottery artists), cooking classes, beach time, nature walks, day trips to Da Nang, and more.

• Check an exemplary flow

How to Join: A Community-Supported Model

This retreat is built on the idea that we rise in community. Your contribution doesn’t just cover your own experience; it helps someone else attend who might otherwise not be able to. If you're able to pay the higher end of the scale, know that you're directly supporting a more inclusive space.

• Here’s what your contribution includes

Local Rate ₫3,500,000–₫8,000,000 VND

For participants who live in Vietnam or other South Asian countries may face different economic realities due to systemic inequalities in global income distribution, legacies of colonization, or racialized wage gaps. Whether you're a local artist, writer, activist, or simply navigating a different financial context, this tier is here to honor your participation and make the retreat more accessible. We aim to foster a space that reflects regional diversity and lived experience.

International Rate €300–€600

For participants who have greater financial privilege, whether through nationality, race, passport power, education, or socioeconomic background. That might include expats, digital nomads, remote workers earning a Global North salary, or anyone with more access to disposable income. It is an invitation to consider what you carry, and what you can contribute to the conditions of collective flourishing.

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