This September, Gateless is running away to create with the power of the word at our classic writing retreat in the treetops by the 32 mile nature preserve containing Lost Lake and the ancient rock formations over a billion years old.

Our home is a contemporary house called "Treetops", one of the highest property in the gorgeous town of Guilford, CT. This is an intimate all-inclusive writing retreat where you will discover the singular genius and unique power of your work on the page.

As the sole occupants of the island of a house with a view of the hardwoods and the birds, you will create some of the most fantastic connections of your life, feast on meals from our private chef, receive daily meditative prompts, Reiki + Thai head massage, and write like you've never written before.

For over a decade Gateless Writing Retreats have given writers the time and accountability to take risks and create work that moves a crowd. This is the escape you have been waiting for to generate new writing in the forcefield of creative community.

Gateless feedback is unique in that it blows through the construct of the internalized external critic and shows you the incredible strength and brilliance in what you are creating. This method moves your work (and your life) to unprecedented heights.

Between writing sessions, we will cozy up  to network Gatelessly, which means making life-long friends, getting offline publishing advice, sharing proven ways to blast through the critic and showing each other how to create work that brings your life to new creative zeniths.

The full schedule is below. To sign up please email us at: gatelesswriting@gmail.com

Note: Gateless Writing Salons include a guided meditation, Thai head massage + Reiki, a prompt to encourage your writing (if you need it), immediate Gateless feedback that finds the genius and power in your writing and personalized feedback to your email about the strength and craft in your work.

All meals are included in the price of the retreat and provided by our private chef.

First Evening: 
5:00pm check-in at the house (you may check in any time after 5).
6:00 our first dinner together.
7:15 first Gateless Writing salon.

Second Day: 
9:15am Gateless Writing salon.
12:15 Lunch with our resident chef.
2:30 Afternoon Writing salon.
6:30 Dinner with our resident chef.
7:15 Evening Writing salon.

Third Day:
9:15am Gateless Writing salon
12:15 Lunch.
2:30 Afternoon Writing salon.
6:00 Dinner with our resident chef.
7:15 A special starlit Writing Salon.

Fourth Day:
9:15am Gateless Writing salon
11:45 Closing, we love you and we will always remember.
12:15 Lunch with our resident chef.

Prices: Your price includes the boat to and from the island, all meals cooked by our resident chef, daily Reiki and Thai head massage and all Gateless Writing salons.

Shared Room:  $2010 each.
Single Room: $2600. 
PayPal using gatelesswriting@gmail.com, please use the friends and family link so that no extra charges are incurred.

To get your questions answered, or to come retreat with us, email us: gatelesswriting@gmail.com

Suzanne Kingsbury is the founder Gateless Writing. An internationally-acclaimed, award-winning novelist, her books have been published by Scribner, optioned for film and translated widely abroad. After completing graduate work in the literary arts, she went on to research creative brain science from studies done at Stanford, Johns Hopkins and the National Institute of Health. In conjunction with her Fulbright work in Buddhism, she developed Gateless, a methodology that ceases negative activity in the critical centers of the brain, so that creativity, long term memory and imaginative intellect can move fluidly and dynamically to the forefront while creating.

In 2014, she founded the Gateless Academy, a post-graduate book building program based on the method that has graduated writers who have won top literary awards, been represented by the Bent Agency, Inkwell Management, Writers House, Park and Fine, the Carol Mann agency and more. These writers have been published with Random House, Hatchette Books, Harpers Business, Saint Martins, Simon and Schuster and independent presses in the United States and abroad.

Concurrently, she founded The Gateless Certification Program, a leadership-based program that trains high achieving professionals across industries in the Gateless method. There are now over 100 Gateless certified teachers worldwide, teaching, speaking and leading in all sectors.

Suzanne also serves as a mentor and collaborator with authors whose books are shifting the paradigm and changing the cultural domain. Currently, this includes Derek Aldridge, PhD, professor of Education and Carter G. Woodson faculty for the department of African-American Studies at the University of Virginia on Teachers in the Movement, focusing on rural educators' role in the civil rights movement; Deepa Purushothaman, Public Policy Program Leader in Practice at the Harvard Kennedy School on the launch of her debut book on women of color and power, The First, the Few and the Only (Harpers' Business, March, 2021); and CNN Hero Vicki Sokolik and her son, Cameron, founders of Starting Right, Now on their manuscript about their activism and legislative work as advocates for homeless teens.

Suzanne's work has been featured in Glamour Magazine, People Magazine, The LA Times, O Magazine, The Atlantic Journal Constitution and many others. Thrive Global named the Gateless Retreats the top Writing Retreat of 2017 and the 2013 Writer’s Guide named Suzanne as one of the experts on creativity and the imaginative process. She has been trained in Shamanic journeying, Thai head massage and Reiki and uses these modalities when moving writers’ into the theta brain or "flow" state. Suzanne lives and works in southeastern Connecticut, and she hosts at-home and destination Gateless retreats 3-5 times per year.