La Muse

La Muse is a writers' and artists’ retreat in the South of France. The focus for everyone here is on their creative project. We are run somewhat like a co-op. In exchange for opening our home to attendees, we hope that they will take our mission seriously and use the time they’ve given themselves to get work done.La Muse is informal and comfortable, but a structure exists with the purpose of vigorous work and focus on a creative project. That structure consists of our house guidelines.Essentially, the guidelines recommend about eight hours of creative work a day just as you would do for an employer. The quiet hours are: 9am – 12pm, 1pm – 5:30pm, 10:00pm – 7am. Saturdays and Sundays are a day off. Basically, our guidelines encourage respect for your own work, others’ work, our house, and our neighbors. The purpose of each guideline is to support a true retreat from life back home. Know as well that they are called “guidelines” and not “rules” for a reason. We’re all adults; we all have our own process. We will not chain you to your desk. But know that we make these recommendations because they work. After nearly seven years of doing this, talking to attendees, and using our own experience as a rule of thumb, we can guarantee that if you stick with the program you will leave here feeling very accomplished. We are as much a machine-free house as we can be so that you can clear your mental desktops to find peace and inspiration through discipline and solace.The point is to disconnect in order to connect.Among the artists who’ve stayed here are novelists, poets, screenwriters, short and flash fiction writers, playwrights, musicians, journalists, docudramatists, memoirists, composers, photographers, painters, embroiderers, publishers, biographers, agents and many more, of all ages, denominations and continents.