The Tent-Pole Method of Revision (starting at $45)

Congratulations! You finished the draft of your novel! Now… it’s time to edit. But how? Too many writers start linearly with a scene-by-scene, chapter-by-chapter process. Unfortunately, with this method, you can miss some of the larger, structural issues which then go unfixed – and might even get worse. What if you had a process that gives you some distance and allows you to see the overall picture and where it’s succeeding or not? Join Author Accelerator certified book coach Rona Gofstein as she shows you how to use six key scenes so you can see what’s working, what needs strengthening, and what’s not there yet. Discover a new system that emphasizes the pivotal moments in your story, so your revision has a more significant impact on your book - in less time - and improves your editing process.

Rona Gofstein describes herself as a Manuscript Muse who loves inspiring and working with writers who are ready to make their book writing dreams a reality. She’s a published author and an Author Accelerator certified fiction book coach whose style combines intensive feedback with compassionate enthusiasm. She has spoken on writing craft and business across the country and is the past president of the New Hampshire RWA chapter and Broad Universe.

Featured Author/Open Mic with Christina Rivera Cogswell

Christina Rivera Cogswell is an author from Colorado whose girlhood was bordered by coastlines of the Pacific Ocean. Her debut book, MY OCEANS was longlisted for the Graywolf Press Prize, a finalist for the Siskiyou Prize for New Environmental Literature, and just launched into the world as of March 15th, 2025 with Curbstone Books, an imprint of Northwestern University Press. Christina’s essays have won a Pushcart Prize, the John Burroughs Nature Essay Award, and appeared in Orion, The Cut, The Kenyon Review, and Terrain.org, among other places. You can learn more about Christina and MY OCEANS: Essays of Water, Whales, and Women at www.christinarivera.com.

The City and the Writer with Carmen Bugan (FREE)

Read Interview: The City and the Writer with Carmen Bugan

In Tristia, Carmen Bugan tests the lyric against loss once again, as everything collapses around her, but this time much closer to home. These are poems about forging a stronger self in the fires of her lifetime, whether they are the forest fires that cover the American continent, the war in Ukraine, or her own world turned to ashes. The speaker in the poem ‘Enheduana’ laments:

He spat on my oven full of food,
Walked over my baskets full of bread,
Soiled the marriage bed, left the children crying,
And my heart toiling with heaven and earth.

Her poems insist on the beauty of the natural world, itself under threat, as a source of strength, as in ‘Hawk,’ where the speaker prays:

Hawk, take everything
That is weak in me,
In your claws: eat it.
Leave me wise and patient.


“[A] word-smithy that is now owned by an incorruptible woman of letters.” —Professor Sir Christopher Ricks, Along Heroic Lines

“Bugan’s own highly regarded poetry serves to distill the essence of her far-ranging political and cultural analysis and to reenact it in verse that strikes close to home.” —-George Kalogeris, Literary Matters

“Her mantra might be ‘No patriotism but in things’–things turned into images cut on a printer’s block. […] in these poems is an earnest voice, quiet but determined, taut with the discipline to sail past temptation, like Odysseus among the sirens—temptations to lose one’s self in lamentation, accusation, revenge.” —Lem Coley, The Manhattan Review — on Lilies from America

“She writes with disciplined precision, always attendant to the necessary nuance poetry demands. Her lyric voice and moral imagination in these poems gather energy from the urgency of daily concerns and anxieties, as well as the need to witness.” —Gerard Smyth, Poetry Editor of the Irish Times, on Time Being

“Bugan’s poetry is subtle, tends towards reticence, yet has an indelible staying power. Crossing the Carpathians is a moving exploration of the costs of survival and the survival of love.” —Jacqueline Pope, Harvard Review

Carmen Bugan, George Orwell Prize Fellow, is the author of ten books including poetry, memoir, and criticism. Her most recent collection of poems isTristia, out January 2025 with Shearsman, and her most recent collection of essays is Poetry and the Language of Oppression: Essays on Politics and Poetics (Oxford University Press, 2021). Her new and selected poems, Lilies from America (Shearsman, 2019), was a PBS Special Commendation. Her memoir, Burying the Typewriter (Picador, Graywolf, 2012), won the Breadloaf Nonfiction Prize, was shortlisted for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Orwell Prize for Political Writing, was BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week, and was translated into Swedish and Polish. Carmen is an experienced creative writing teacher, and offers memoir and poetry manuscript consultations, multigenre creative writing workshops, and is available for library and school author visits.

Free Info Session on Mapping "the Disturbed Country": Writing Illness and Aging  (FREE)

Maya Angelou says, "There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” Writing about illness and lost capacity can be tricky. Many forces - shame, medical lingo, "why bother?" - can get in the way.

The meditation and free-writing circle starting on Friday April 4th (12-1:45 PM ET), Mapping the "Disturbed Country": Writing Illness and Aging offers a supportive circle in which you can access the healing that comes from giving voice to your experiences.

In the intro session, Lisa will guide participants through a round of her "breathe/read/write" approach: a short meditation + a free-write prompts (quote or poem about illness/healing) + freewriting + sharing. Then Lisa will open the floor to questions about the writing circles that start on April 4.

Lisa Freedman is an author, activist, and professor. Her online community, Breathe/Read/Write, blends meditation and writing to cultivate free expression. Lisa has been living with chronic disease for 60 years and writing about and through it for 40 years. See her work in Satya, the NY Times, and more.

Gateway to Memoir II (starting at $199)

In this 6-week workshop we will build on the foundation and skills developed during Gateway to Memoir I with more of a focus on:
Developing and strengthening your voice as a writer
Identifying narrative arcs at the chapter and book level
How to do self-research to aid your memory

The final two sessions will be reserved for workshopping writing submissions.

Minda Honey’s essays have appeared in Harper’s Bazaar, the Washington Post, the Guardian, the Oxford American, Teen Vogue, and Longreads.

Her debut memoir, THE HEARTBREAK YEARS is a hilarious and intimate portrait of a Black woman finding who she is and who she wants to be, one bad date at a time.

Expressive Writing for Emotional Healing (starting at $50)

Whether you’ve known periods of overwhelm, trauma, or significant difficulty, it’s important to process these experiences in healthy ways. In this course, you’ll learn the evidence-based technique of expressive writing to help process difficult emotions in order to help you get “unstuck”. The practice of Expressive Writing, pioneered by Dr. James Pennebaker in 1986, is a remarkably straightforward and FREE way to acknowledge your most troubling memories and create a framework of language that can help to move unresolved thoughts out of your head and onto the page (or even into the air).

Participants will:

Christine Wolf is a memoir coach and founder of Writers’ Haven, a coworking space for women writers. A former board member of the Chicago chapter of SPJ, Wolf’s writing has been awarded for excellence by the National Society of Newspaper Columnists and The Moth. Wolf is a writing instructor at Northwestern University and runs Write to Heal Workshops and Retreats. She’s the co-author of Politics, Partnerships, & Power: The Lives of Ralph E. and Marguerite Stitt Church.

Mapping "the Disturbed Country": Writing Illness and Aging (starting at $179)

Mapping "the Disturbed Country": Writing Illness and Aging

In Intoxicated by My Illness, Anatole Broyard writes, “Always in emergencies we invent narratives…. I saw my illness as a visit to a disturbed country.” This five-session generative free-writing circle is for those who are or have been patients and/or caregivers and who want to write about their experiences in the realms of disease and diminished capacity.

The format of each session helps us get to know and support one another. Each time we meet, we start with a few minutes of silence followed by a short guided free-write and sharing time to warm up. Then we do two longer rounds of meditation, free-writing, sharing, and responding. The sharing is always optional.

Texts by Jorge Luis Borges, Jane Kenyon, Audre Lorde, and more guide our freewriting. 

 Each session explores a different theme, such as these:

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All levels welcome. No need to have meditation or writing experience. There will be optional casual conversation time after each session from 5:45-6:00 pm.

Lisa Freedman is an author, activist, and professor. Her online community, Breathe/Read/Write, blends meditation and writing to cultivate free expression. Lisa has been living with chronic disease for 60 years and writing about and through it for 40 years. See her work in Satya, the NY Times, and more.

Divinatory Poetics: Writing as Mystical Practice (starting at $199)

Uncover Divinity in the Ordinary!
Join me in this riff on a mystical tradition, where the words of luminaries become a gateway into our mysterious imagination.

How do we listen deeply—to language, to silence, to what stirs beneath the surface? This six-session workshop explores Lectio Divina as a creative practice, guiding participants through contemplative reading, poetic response and intuitive writing. Drawing from mystical traditions, poetry, and personal experience, we’ll engage with text as a living presence—something to be received rather than analyzed and approach our writing as an underground stream that flows through us.

Each session will include immersive reading, somatic 'recoveries', writing and conversation. Alongside Lectio Divina, we may experiment with other intuitive methods of engaging with text, imagery and metaphor.

Open to writers, artists, the curious and the skeptical. No experience required.

Regan is a creative consultant and artist. Through abstract painting, poetry, and immersive laboratories, she navigates the intersection of perception, imagination, language and correspondence. Her approach, ‘Divinatory Poetics,’ invites participants to engage in non-dogmatic, creative practices that nurture deep listening and spontaneous expression.

Featured Author/Open Mic with Shze-Hui Tjoa

Shze-Hui Tjoa is the author of The Story Game: A Memoir from Tin House Books, a genre-bending work about storytelling, siblinghood, c-PTSD, having been raised as a child musician, and deconstructing/finding the self. It was named one of the best nonfiction books of 2024 by Electric Literature and Paste Magazine. She is also the Nonfiction Editor of Guernica magazine. Her most recent author interviews can be found in BOMB, Lit Hub, Electric Literature, The Adroit Journal, Poets & Writers Magazine, and Between the Covers podcast.

Organizing your Poetry Manuscript (starting at $159)

A published author and editor will help you organize your poetry manuscript. We will examine the two versions of Sylvia Plath's Ariel, along with different theories and formats, to see how the impact of poem order affects a manuscript. This workshop will provide detailed feedback on individual poems and offer students a variety of strategies for sequencing, structuring, sectioning, and titling a full-length poetry manuscript.

Linda Kleinbub is Founding Editor of Pink Trees Press, curator of Fahrenheit Open Mic, contributing editor at Girls Write Now, and co-founder of Pen Pal Poets. She’s the author of Cover Charge, Appear to Dance, and co-editor of Silver Tongued Devil Anthology. Her MFA is from The New School.

Threshold of Tongues: Writing from our Ancestral Wombs (starting at $89)

    

Course Leads
Kashiana Singh and Pramila Venkateswaran

In a time when the world feels increasingly fractured—marked by geopolitical uncertainty, climate crisis, and the shifting sands of identity—poetry offers both anchor and compass. With thoughtful prompts and expert guidance, Kashiana Singh and Pramila Venkateswaran will help you craft poems that draw on ancestral and cultural syntax, inviting sensitivity, honesty, and connection.

This workshop creates space for the stories we carry—those buried in the silences of elders who could not or would not bring them across thresholds of migration, displacement, or trauma. Through embodied language and intentional writing practices, we’ll call forth these silences and transform them into powerful, living poetry.
For both beginners and experienced poets, the workshop provides a sanctuary to explore the intersections of heritage and the present moment. In a world navigating deep uncertainty, Threshold of Tongues becomes a vessel—not just for reflection but for resilience, offering participants a way to yield to the world’s challenges while discovering inspiration in its complexities.

Description of the Panel –

Poetry serves as a portal for those whose heritage has been disrupted by violence, colonization, and displacement. This panel is an invitation to air out the stories we often tuck away in attics, closets, journals, or even deep within our bodies. With discernment, we’ll explore what to salvage, what to unlearn, and what we must leave behind. We will call forth these gnarled stories, finding sound for them and housing them in poetic altars—where they can be honored and reshaped.

Together, we will engage in a journey of unearthing our heritage, reaching across generations to call our ancestors into the room. Through poetry, texts, and references, this panel will create space for participants and panelists alike to unlearn and rediscover what is essential, grounding, and liberating within our histories.
The stories, whether remembered or forgotten, live inside us, waiting for the right moment to emerge. This panel offers an opportunity to open the doors to these words, rhythms, mantras, and wisdom. While some stories may feel gnarled or deformed by time and trauma, they are no less a source of deep-rooted truth—the truth that transcends data, facts, and historical records, and instead speaks to the unchanging core of who we are.

Join us as we reclaim, reconnect, and reimagine what our heritage can offer in these uncertain times.

Statement of Value and Outcomes expected –

Poets as keepers will engage with poetry of persistence and resistance. Pathways to our Ancestral systems that ignite memory and hidden narratives. We will gently unbind and trace our roots. Roots that have either been axed, twisted, corroded, or displaced. Through these roots, we will start to locate pathways that lead us into the tree system of our ancestors.

Let us carry forward our poetic altars that honor the memory of our ancestors, and serve as wombs/garbhasThe four sessions will flow to and through the following –

Holding Space - Reading from reference texts to ground the discussion –
● How I Became a Tree by Sumana Roy
● The Overstory by Richard Powers
● Our Ancestors Did Not Breathe This Air Anthology
● Every Poem Has Ancestors by Joy Harjo
● Ancestors by Ada Limón
● Crazy Brave by Joy Harjo
● The Aisling Irish dream poem in which Ireland appears to the poet personified as a woman.
● Poetry of Immigration, Refugees, and Exile

Session 1: Invocation
In this session, we will engage in readings from poets whose works are deeply inspired by ancestral words, languages, and the intricate weave of displacement. These texts will serve as a gateway to understanding how distance and history shape our identities, calling forth the echoes of our ancestors in poetic form.
Session 2: Gazing Inwards
With a ceremonial fishbowl, we’ll invite participants to ask questions that lead us into a still space of deep reflection. This introspective exploration will focus on the roots and root systems of our ancestors—those foundations that nourish our poetic voices. Poems and texts will guide us into this space, helping us integrate both personal and collective histories into the creative process.
Session 3: Going Outwards
Now, we will turn our gaze outward, opening doorways for our participants to bring forth examples of their own communities—folk tales, places, food, and superstitions. Like a collective ritual, the poems generated in Session 2 will be shared and welcomed into the cohort, expanding our understanding of heritage through diverse lenses and experiences.
Session 4: Contemplation
In our final session, we will leave with more than just first drafts of poems—we will carry our bodily and soul selves forward, enriched by the reflections and creative energy of the workshop. Our poems will open new doorways, ushering in fresh creativity and deeper connection to the legacies we’ve explored.

When Kashiana is not writing, she lives to embody her TEDx talk theme of Work as Worship into her every day. Author of 4 collections with Witching Hour released in December 2024 with Glass Lyre Press.

Pramila Venkateswaran, poet laureate of Suffolk County, Long Island. Author of 8 collections she is a Professor of English at Nassau Community College (SUNY).

Both are actively involved in giving workshops and readings and lead the Matwaala South Asian Diaspora Poetry collective.

The body, the mind - a facts-to-fiction
freewrite-shop (starting at $45)

In this 90 minute workshop, we will look at face-keeping and body-caring, and touch upon theories re image, perceptions and expectations. Women’s language, and the power of community and sisterhood …we will freewrite to some facts and fiction, with Miranda July, Morgan Parker, and Tate Britain’s exhibition “Women in Revolt” to prompt us! At the end of the workshop you will receive a document with all sorts of information to muse on. To quote the Spice Girls: "Just Girl Power is all we need. We know how we got this far. Strength and courage and a Wonderbra!”!

Kate Copeland’s love for languages led her to teaching; her love for art & water to poetry. She is curator-editor for The Ekphrastic Review & runs linguistic-poetry workshops for TER and IWWG. Find her poems @TER, WildfireWords, Gleam, Hedgehog Press [a.o.] and @https://www.instagram.com/kate.copeland.poems/ Kate was born @harbour city, and adores housesitting @the world.

With New Eyes: Deep Revision in Any Genre (starting at $139)

Deep revision isn't about wielding a red pen; it's about listening for the thrumming heart of a piece, asking big questions and reimagining voice, structure and language to give that piece maximum impact. No matter your genre--fiction, nonfiction, memoir or poetry--you'll learn tools and strategies for reflecting on your own writing, returning to it with fresh eyes and making it sing!

Anndee Hochman is a writer, educator and storyteller. For more than 30 years, she has worked with writers across the age span, helping them raise their voices in memoir, poetry and creative nonfiction. Her books include Anatomies: A Novella and Stories (Picador USA) and Everyday Acts & Small Subversions: Women Reinventing Family, Community and Home (The Eighth Mountain Press). A new book, Parent Trip: Unexpected Roads to Form a Family, is forthcoming in October from Temple University Press.

Making More of Memoir:
Tools for Drawing Readers to and into Your Writing 
(starting at $50)

The memoirist writes, above all else, to redeem experience, to reawaken the past, and to find its patterns; better yet, to discover behind bygone events a dramatic, explanatory narrative. Storytelling fails when the narrative cannot coax sympathetic resonance from the reader.
-Sven Birkerts, The Art of Time in Memoir

Coaxing this “sympathetic resonance from the reader” is the difference between writing the stories people choose to read on airplanes and the ones that speak gently to the depths of the human spirit. Primarily designed for new writers, but offering unique insights for more seasoned ones, this workshop offers both practical tools and personal advice for adding depth to your own non-fiction writing—keys for building better bridges between yourself, your story, and your reader:

Time: The then and now of memoir
Structure: Hanging more layers from the narrative arc
Scene and Summary: The Siamese twins of story
Carnality: Images that take your breath away
Voice: The critical role of the narrator in reality-based writing
Come and leave with tools for writing the next chapters of your life.

Judith Huge has spent over 30 years developing innovative approaches to both learning and writing. As president of her own national consulting firm, teacher of both undergraduate and graduate-level college courses, and director of writing workshops across the country, she has made a difference in the way thousands of people find, craft, and promote their writing voices. She is a co-author of 101 Ways You Can Help: How to Offer Comfort and Support to Those Who Are Grieving (Sourcebook, 2009), as well as A Middle Aged Woman and the Sea, a tale of loss and transition.

Featured Author/Open Mic with Sarah Ghazal Ali

Sarah Ghazal Ali is the author of Theophanies (Alice James Books, 2024), winner of the GLCA New Writers Award and a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Her work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, the Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day series, and elsewhere. A Stadler and Kundiman Fellow, Sarah is the poetry editor for West Branch and an Assistant Professor of English at Macalester College.

Featured Author/Open Mic with Natasha Williams

Williams’ memoir, The Parts of Him I Kept, is an intimate account of coming of age in the face of a father's schizophrenic unraveling. Williams investigates the limits of our medical and cultural understanding of schizophrenia while chronicling the shared burden and benefits of caring for a mentally ill family member.  The Parts of Him I Kept humanizes living with mental illness and illuminates how families find hope and even thrive in the face of the extraordinary challenge of mental illness.

This is Natasha Williams' debut book. She has an MA from the University of Pennsylvania and attended the Bread Loaf School of English and the Bread Loaf Writers Conference. Excerpts and essays have been published in the Bread Loaf Journal, Change Seven, LIT, Memoir Magazine, Onion River Review, Writers Read, Post Road and South Dakota Review.

Natasha Williams offers us a portrait of America at a time when everything was in flux, when people searched for new ways to live, and (if they were lucky) ended up simply loving each other.” 

– Nick Flynn, Author of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City and Low life.

Building from Scraps: Making Old Things New 
(starting at $79)

For this workshop, you will be asked to bring drafts of old poems that aren’t “working” for you. These might be finished poems, or they might be scraps of incomplete poems, sentences or paragraphs. We will use several techniques to infuse new life into them. You will leave the workshop with at least one new draft that surprises you. Writers who are new to poetry, but have old bits of prose to repurpose, are welcome.

Sherre Vernon is the author of two chapbooks and two full length poetry collections, Flame Nebula, Bright Nova and Translating Blue. Sherre has been nominated for Best of the Net and Pushcart prizes, and anthologized in several collections including Fat & Queer and Best Small Fictions.

Accessing Our Wounds through Words (starting at $89)

Writing difficult narratives can offer an opening, create awareness, and begin necessary conversations. Often, we seek penning our experiences to help make sense of our wounds, to assign meaning to what is not easily expressed. This three-part workshop-based class offers practical and empowering exploration into the trauma-writing process. Instructor Rebecca Evans has instructed trauma writing to a wide range of students and in a variety of settings. She shares her own curated process that she developed while confronting vulnerability and pain on the page. Through compassionate and gentle exploration, students will learn to re-frame their experiences into craft that feels true and meaningful. Session one includes methods to help establish sacred writing practices, including space for self-care. Students will explore concepts to help manage emotions that might surface during writing sessions. Session two offers a study in forms, crafts and approaches. Students will explore narrative accessibility should they wish to share or publish their work. Session three helps students establish a creative and safe ongoing writing practice. This class is open to writers of all levels.

Rebecca Evans writes the heart-full guidebooks for survivors. She teaches high school teens in the Juvie system and co-hosts Radio Boise’s Writer to Writer show. She’s a disabled veteran, an avid gardener, and lives with four Newfoundlands and her sons.

Her poems and essays have appeared in Brevity, Narratively, The Rumpus, Hypertext Magazine, and more. Her books include Tangled by Blood (Moon Tide Press, 2023) and Safe Handling (Moon Tide Press, 2024).

To Question or Not Question - a factual fiction freewrite workshop  (FREE)

In this 90 minute workshop, we will dive into ways of asking questions, of making assumptions ... asking questions about question asking as such! We will touch upon theories re direct and indirect communication, a factual facekeeping that will prompt us to freewrite to poems by Sarah Uribe & Hagar Peeters, to lyrics by Annie Lennox. At the end of the workshop you will receive a document with more facts & fiction to muse on. To ask or assume … let’s read and write beyond conjecture!

Kate Copeland’s love for languages led her to teaching; her love for art & water to poetry. She is curator-editor for The Ekphrastic Review & runs linguistic-poetry workshops for TER and IWWG. Find her poems @TER, WildfireWords, Gleam, Hedgehog Press [a.o.] and https://www.instagram.com/kate.copeland.poems/ Kate was born @harbour city, and adores housesitting @the world.

Matwaala South Asian poets' Collective:
From OTHER to CENTER (starting at $45)

Usha Akella moderates a panel of four poets - Kirun Kapur, Sara Garg, Anita Nahal & Meher Manda to delve into the notion of immigration as a spectrum of unfoldment. More than a static dot in time, immigration is a wave giving birth to endless surges of the notion of identity enacting within the larger canvas of country, belonging and borders. The poets will read poems that explore an evolutionary journey to reflect changing themes, concerns, and poetic expression. What does a poet write about upon arrival? What does the poet grapple with in successive years? What does an American born poet with immigrant parents write about? From ‘other’ to ‘center’, is there indeed a definite destination of belonging?

Moderator, Usha Akella: Usha Akella has authored ten books that include poetry, and two musical dramas with noted publishers. She earned an MSt. in Creative Writing from the University of Cambridge, UK. She is the founder of Matwaala (www.matwaala.com), launched to increase the visibility of South Asian poets, and www.the-pov.com, a website of curated interviews.

Panel: Kirun Kapur, Sara Garg, Anita Nahal & Meher Manda

Writing poems that surprise (starting at $45)

Will go over various techniques for writing poems that surprise the writer, will read sample poems and talk about how the techniques have been used. Participants will be given time to write and to share their poems.

Brenda Wildrick, poet and visual artist, member of Columbine Poets of Colorado, the Arizona State Poetry Society, Colorado Poet’s Center, and IWWG, has published poems in several anthologies. Her book, On the Train for Somewhere Else, and her coloring book with haiku were published in 2023 by Wild Rising Press.

Writing & Wellness Retreat
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August 11-15, 2025

Kingston, NY

Preliminary Schedule
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Monday, August 11 - Arrival Day

4 workshops during each session, 8 daily

Friday, August 15 - Departures

Meals & Other Information

Complimentary Breakfast at the hotel.

Please note registration is for retreat, workshops, and meals. Rooms will be booked separately under an IWWG block that will open week of March 10.

We will send another email with the link to the room block which can be booked in advance with no deposit required. Payment on site in August.

Rooms will be available at the rate of $129 per night under the IWWG rate. If you are booking a double room (2 people per room), you need to know who you are sharing with in advance. There must be two people in the room to get the double rate. IWWG will not be managing hotel booking, room assignments, or hotel-mates. Everything will be at the hotel link. 

Best Western Plus Kingston Hotel and Conference Center. Nearby Kingston retreat center for workshops with shuttle services.

Gateway to Memoir III (starting at $199)

In this 6-week workshop we will build on the foundation and skills developed during Gateway to Memoir I & II. You do not have to have participated in I & II to enroll in III, but you should have completed at least two full essays/chapters of your project for this workshop to be most beneficial to you.
Week 1 - Real-time Revisions
Week 2 - Sharpening Your Writing Voice
Week 3 - Book Proposal Basics

Weeks 4-6 will be reserved for workshopping.

Minda Honey’s essays have appeared in Harper’s Bazaar, the Washington Post, the Guardian, the Oxford American, Teen Vogue, and Longreads.

Her debut memoir, THE HEARTBREAK YEARS is a hilarious and intimate portrait of a Black woman finding who she is and who she wants to be, one bad date at a time.

Embodied Editing (starting at $79)

Embodied Editing pushes the revision practice beyond the norm of academics, highlighting the connection between the body and art. This approach helps surpass traditional boundaries of language, acting as an invitation to explore story and narrative in relationship to the body’s visceral response, creating a deep conversation between work and heart.

We’ll explore editing in two sessions. Please bring work that you wish to revise, along with highlighters and/or markers to the event. Dress in comfortable clothing to allow yourself to move freely as part of the revision process.

Rebecca Evans writes the heart-full guidebooks for survivors. She teaches high school teens in the Juvie system and co-hosts Radio Boise’s Writer to Writer show. She’s a disabled veteran, an avid gardener, and lives with four Newfoundlands and her sons.

Her poems and essays have appeared in Brevity, Narratively, The Rumpus, Hypertext Magazine, and more. Her books include Tangled by Blood (Moon Tide Press, 2023) and Safe Handling (Moon Tide Press, 2024).