CRAFT &
PUBLISHING
VOYAGE
TOP WRITING TEACHERS, INDUSTRY EXPERTS, & CUNARD'S WHITE STAR
SERVICE FROM LONDON TO NEW YORK
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CRAFT CLASSES | PUBLISHING PANELS | PERSONAL ADVICE
for Memoir, Fiction & Nonfiction Writers in all genres
(SPOUSES, PARTNERS & FRIENDS WARMLY WELCOMED!)
THE REBIRTH DIFFERENCE
An inspirational week of writing craft, publishing knowledge
& concrete steps for your writing career
Not a cruise, but a transatlantic crossing aboard the greatest ocean liner in the world, Cunard’s Queen Mary 2.
Take advantage of complimentary room service and relax in your stateroom, join writers and friends for a three-course dinner, or network with over lunchtime interest and genre tables.
Enjoy quiet nooks and relaxing lounges for writing; or cinema, theatre, lectures, swimming pools, cocktail bars, restaurants, and the largest library at sea to stimulate your creative mind. Above all, the luxury of doing as little or as much as you wish!
Our westbound crossing ends with an awe-inspiring early-morning arrival into New York City.
Our bespoke itinerary maximizes your learning, creating and communing, allowing you every opportunity to get the best out of your guides and the services & hospitality onboard.
Craft & Publishing Panels. Each morning, our teachers present deep dives on writing craft and publication, such as: Market Viability: What Publishers Want, Negotiation Smarts, Fabulous First Pages, or Writing Online.
Daily Classes with individual teachers happen after the morning panel and in the afternoon. Choose the topics you need to further your writing and your publishing career. Class topics by teacher are listed under Your Guides.
Special Events include Reading Nights for participants and teachers (voluntary and time-limited) and our NEW Write Fast Challenge: get a genre, a prompt and a time limit, to create a very short story and a huge sense of accomplishment!
RebirthYourBook retreats and RebirthYourWriting intensives have helped over 1000 writers on their publishing journeys. Our alumni publish with Big Five and literary presses, successfully self-publish, and publish essays and short fiction in national and international media and literary journals.
Our exceptional team of writing industry experts bring deep knowledge of literary and commercial publishing, writing craft, book development, author platform, marketing, and literary citizenship.
One-On-One sessions with our experts may be added at time of booking, at an additional cost.
Travel Mate Pros Dave Williams and Karen Ballard bring the best airfare deals, cruise expertise, and all-around travel insight to make your voyage smooth from door-to-door.
Once you register for the event, your confirmation email will include next steps to organizing and booking your travel. Need to know more before you register? Contact karenballard@travelmation.net to schedule a call.
Karen & Dave will help you choose your stateroom, book hotel nights before and after the crossing, arrange air travel and airport transfers.
Travel Mate Pros are part of one of the largest umbrella agencies in the country, Travelmation, giving access to discounts and perks you won’t find anywhere else!
Add on a tour before the voyage, an excursion after, or deepen your work with craft lessons and individual coaching on a return voyage.
LITERARY LONDON August 24-26 | Delight in the histories of illustrious writers and a rich library tradition. This 3-night tour includes accommodation, breakfast, two dinners, afternoon tea, a West End show, private tours and coach transfer to the ship.
$1950 | Limit 10 writers, travel partners in shared room $685
LITERARY NEW YORK September 3 | A one-day excursion to magical bookstores and a pitching-and-publishing lunch with literary agents. Includes coach transfer from the ship, luggage storage for the day, lunch, and free time.
$395 | Limit 10 writers; travel partners $125
RETURN VOYAGE September 3-10 | Can’t get enough? Join Allison K Williams and Amy Collins for the return voyage to the UK with craft lessons & personal coaching.
Event fee $975 + cabin fare | Limit 10 writers; no event fee for travel partners
Use the Contact Form to request full details of all add-on events.
YOUR GUIDES
Four experts in literary, commercial and self-publishing
lead insightful panels and small-group craft workshops
aboard the crown jewel of the Cunard fleet.
Queen Mary 2
Southampton - New YorkStaterooms $1515-$2085 per person
based on double occupancy
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Register & pay your event fee
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With our travel coordinator, choose your Stateroom: Inside, Seaview or Balcony
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Take advantage of Cunard's discount on the airline of your choice (optional)
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Choose to add additional hotel nights in NYC or London (optional)
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Add on Literary London, Literary New York or a one-on-one consult (optional)
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Join the pre-event Zoom to get to know your fellow writers
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See you onboard!
Dinty's Doodles
Don't Take It From Us...
"From personal experience, staggering round a transatlantic liner in a dinner jacket with a martini is the normal, rational, reasonable way to cross the Atlantic. Heading for an airport and strapping yourself to a flimsy aluminium tube is an unfortunate and eccentric aberration."
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