What You’ll Learn

• There will be presentations and activities intended to spark artistic leaps.
• You’ll have time to write, illustrate and collaborate according to your own goals.
• Evenings and mealtimes will be spent in community, making connections and filling the creative well.

Who Should Attend

Published authors and illustrators.

Authors and illustrators interested in this retreat must list the following when applying:

• Two or more titles of your own published work.
• A short paragraph indicating ways in which you hope to grow as a writer or illustrator.

Agenda

• Invitation to Defamiliarize
• Work at Play
• Writing/Retreat Time
• Creating an Aural Landscape for Creativity
• Editor Q/A session
• Blurred Genres: Moving Between Poetry, Fiction, Memoir

Resources

Interview with Melissa Sweet
Interview with Ruth Behar
Interview with An Na

Testimonials

“Everyone’s presentations and the week as a whole was just so beautifully crafted and I enjoyed every second of it. I came in just hoping to have time to work on a few personal projects and I’m leaving with soooo much more–fixing past projects, so many ideas for new projects and just a deeper understand of what I want to create!”