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The Heart of It is an annual writing retreat & residency community for poetry and creative nonfiction writers to collaborate, create, and connect in community.

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We welcome emerging, mid-career, and established writers to Washington’s Olympic Peninsula for facilitated retreats and semi-facilitated residencies at our retreat center near the base of Olympic National Park. We are founded, run, and stewarded by working class writers for working class writers.