The Caribbean Writers' Retreat
Pineapple House, English Harbor, Antigua
March 2022.
A retreat is a time and a space where you are removed from your normal routine, away from distractions and the noise of ordinary life. A retreat is where you and your creative, inner artist can concentrate on a personal project, a novel, memoir, a series of magazine articles, an essay.
You couldn’t find a better space than Pineapple House. Book yourself into small cottage for a week or an entire month. After a morning swim at Pigeon Beach, the rest of the day can be spent working on the porch of your cottage, cooled by the Trade Winds. As the setting sun lights up the hills on the far side of Falmouth Harbor, hostess Libby Nicholson whips up her famous West Indian rum punch. Writers, photographers, yacht captains and crews, journalists, vagabonds and local characters gather on the veranda of the Great House to swap stories, tell lies and share observations of life in the tropics. It's time to unwind and let the mind relax.
Author, writer, photojournalist and workshop leader David Lyman is organizing a retreat for writers and photographers this winter on the island of Antigua. Based at Pineapple House, a West Indian cottage colony overlooking English and Falmouth Harbors, the retreat provides storytellers with a creative environment in which to work alongside others.
Now, a retreat is not like a workshop. There are no classes, assignments or critiques. Just the project you brought to work on.
If you are serious about developing your skills, your creative voice while growing your career there are intensive, one-week workshops. (Click here for a description of our workshop series
There is no formal structure for a Retreat at Pineapple House, other than the evening soirées on the veranda of the Great House. You are left to wrestle with your creative demons on your own throughout the day. But come evening, there's time and people to share discoveries and blocks that your work presents during the day.
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Your own writer's retreat at Pineapple House, overlooking the Yacht Club in English Harbour.
The view from front porch of Pineapple House. The mega- yacht docks at the Antigua Yacht Club with Falmouth Harbor beyond and the hill is Antigua behind.
Pineapple House
English Harbour, Antigua
Pineapple House is a West Indian cottage colony on the hill above the Antigua Yacht Club in English Harbor. Can’t miss it. Libby Nicholson, who grew up on Antigua, has created a real West Indian gem of a hostelry. Scattered over the hillside among garden of trees and flowers are 9 unique cottages, each with it’s own style, decor and charm.
Cottages can be reserved for individuals or couples. There are individual sleeping enclaves tucked in here and there and the Crew Quarters, or a dorm, for those on a budget. See a portfolio of images of the cottages on this site. Priced range from $65 a night to $195. There is WiFi on site, cell phone service is good, and there are beaches, bars, restaurants and food stores all within walking distance.
Pineapple House is a Caribbean B&B, but the second B is not for “breakfast,” it’s for Booze. Most evenings, Libby’s famous rum punch is served up, and the stories and laughter begun. No meals are served at PH, but there are compunal kitches so you can whip up a meal, or join others in preparing a banquet.
To reserven a cottage or a bed within a cottage, go to AirB&B and search Antigua. Multipule options are available.
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Visit at www.PineapplehouseWestIndies.com.
