Partager: a Women’s Reading & Writing Retreat

May 9-15, 2025

The Gascon Table at the Relais de Camont. Photograph: Ruth Ribeaucourt

 
 

Partager:

Shared Words

A Relais de Camont Private Retreat

“Partager: Shared Words” is a culinary Reading & Writing Retreat for women hosted by Kate Hill & Melissa M. Martin... and Patience Grey, MFK Fisher, Madeleine Kamman, Isak Dinesen, Alice B. Toklas, Elizabeth David, Jane Grigson, and all the others.

You are invited into the Relais de Camont’s 18th-century French kitchen and to the Gascon table with Kate and Melissa to share—Partager—the food and stories of Kate’s Southwest France, its Cajun connections with Melissa’s beloved Bayou, and all the stories that cooking women tell as the kitchen table is set with old pottery and big platters of delicious food. Imagine a Salon & Supper Club meeting at a Writer’s Retreat in Southwest France. Join us for this initial collaboration, meals cooked by Kate Hill and Mosquito Supper Club.

Melissa M. Martin preparing gumbo at Camont Photo: Enas Nashif

This intensive small group residency experience (maximum six writers) allows you to focus completely on your writing and storytelling while receiving support, peer feedback, and personal mentoring. Self-guided writers who want uninterrupted time to work will revel in Camont’s garden quietude while working on a new project or a work in progress. Ideal for food writers and memoirists and those seeking authentic French content, you will have access to picturesque villages, farmers’ markets, canalside walks, and more.

Kate Hill in her kitchen at Camont photo: Valentina Solfrini

This private Women’s Writing & Reading Retreat is hosted by Relais de Camont’s founder, cook and author Kate Hill, and chef and author Melissa M. Martin, Mosquito Supper Club NOLA, at the Relais de Camont in Southwest France, one hour from Toulouse and Bordeaux. There are just four spaces at this table for Sept 9-15, 2025. Booking closes June 21, 2025

  • 5500€ per person; private single room with ensuite bathroom in the Relais de Camont.

  • Sept 9-15, 2025, 7 days / 6 nights; pick up in Agen at the Train Station; local transportation, all meals.

  • Ask for travel, booking, and payment information here- relaisdecamont@gmail.com