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BSFW Goes to Highlights

June 19 - 22, 2025

  Come join us at Highlights Foundation campus for a writing retreat. There will be delicious, locally sourced meals, with snacks and beverages throughout the day.  This retreat will be low-key and unstructured and a time to connect as a group. The Highlights Foundation campus has ample opportunities for walking, hiking, bird watching and gorgeous sunsets […]

Crafting Kidlit Community

June 20 - 23, 2025

Crafting Kidlit Community   Come join us at Highlights Foundation campus. There will be delicious, locally sourced meals, with snacks and beverages throughout the day. This retreat will be low-key and unstructured and a time to connect as a group. The Highlights Foundation campus has ample opportunities for walking, hiking, bird watching and gorgeous sunsets as the […]

Working Creatively With Conflict

June 23 - 28, 2025

**Retreat Name**   Come join us at Highlights Foundation campus for **a writing retreat**.  There will be delicious, locally sourced meals, with snacks and beverages throughout the day.  This retreat will be low-key and unstructured and a time to connect as a group.  The Highlights Foundation campus has ample opportunities for walking, hiking, bird watching […]

VCFA Guardians of Literary Mischief Retreat

June 28 - July 1, 2025

Come join us at Highlights Foundation campus. There will be delicious, locally sourced meals, with snacks and beverages throughout the day.  This retreat will be low-key and unstructured and a time to connect as a group. The Highlights Foundation campus has ample opportunities for walking, hiking, bird watching and gorgeous sunsets as the campus is surrounded […]

Tracking Wonder - Unplugged + Unbound Retreat

June 28 - July 2, 2025

**Retreat Name**   Come join us at Highlights Foundation campus for **a writing retreat**.  There will be delicious, locally sourced meals, with snacks and beverages throughout the day.  This retreat will be low-key and unstructured and a time to connect as a group.  The Highlights Foundation campus has ample opportunities for walking, hiking, bird watching […]

Neurodiverse Kidlit Retreat

July 3 - 6, 2025

Come join us at Highlights Foundation campus for a Neurodiverse Kidlit Retreat! This retreat will be low-key with a few key semi-structured lectures (topics chosen by attendees), ample writing time, and potential to make valuable connections with other neurodivergent children's writers. There will be delicious, locally sourced meals, with snacks and beverages throughout the day. […]

Braintrust Retreat

July 10 - 13, 2025

There will be delicious, locally sourced meals, with snacks and beverages throughout the day. This 3-night, 2-day retreat will feature introductory exercises on Thursday evening followed by 3-hour generative workshops on Friday and Saturday mornings beginning 9 am. Afternoons will be dedicated to individual writer's longer works (up to 50 pages to be submitted at least […]

An Inspired Life Retreat with Be & Breathe Studio 2025

July 10 - 13, 2025

An Inspired Life Retreat By Be & Breathe Studio with Julie Heasley and Don Myer Four days on “pause” in nature practicing yoga. This is an opportunity to cleanse any debris that clouds your own natural way of being. When the waters settle your true, natural state of being is revealed. Untethered, you can create […]

NIAY Collective Residency

July 10 - 13, 2025

This 3-night (or 4-night if desired) retreat will offer ample opportunities for relaxing, walking, hiking, bird watching and gorgeous sunsets as the campus is surrounded by nature and farms. This setting is sure to ignite your creativity and inspire you well beyond the retreat experience. You may check into your lodging any time after 3pm […]

VCFA Writing for Children and Young Adults Alumnx Retreat

July 17 - 20, 2025

VCFA Writing for Children and Young Adults Alumnx Retreat   Come join us at Highlights Foundation campus for a writing retreat. There will be delicious, locally sourced meals, with snacks and beverages throughout the day.  This retreat will be low-key and unstructured and a time to connect as a group.  The Highlights Foundation campus has […]

WCSU MFA 2025 Summer Retreat

July 29 - August 3, 2025

Join us for WCSU MFA’s 2025 Summer Residency, located at the Barn at Boyds Mills, near Honesdale, PA! The residency will feature morning and afternoon workshops, open mics, evening readings, as well as delicious and expertly prepared locally sourced meals. This residency will offer some peaceful time to reunite with friends, connect with new writers, […]

Sera Rivers Client Retreat

August 3 - 6, 2025

Sera Rivers Client Retreat   Come join us at Highlights Foundation campus for *a writing retreat.  There will be delicious, locally sourced meals, with snacks and beverages throughout the day.  This retreat will be low-key and unstructured and a time to connect as a group.  The Highlights Foundation campus has ample opportunities for walking, hiking, […]

Coming Home to Ourselves and Reclaiming Our Wholeness as Highly Sensitive People - Gathering Retreat

August 29 - September 2, 2025

**Retreat Name**   Come join us at Highlights Foundation campus for retreat. There will be delicious, locally sourced meals, with snacks and beverages throughout the day.  This retreat will be low-key and unstructured and a time to connect as a group.  The Highlights Foundation campus has ample opportunities for walking, hiking, bird watching and gorgeous sunsets […]

Crafting Kidlit Community II

September 3 - 6, 2025

Crafting Kidlit Community   Come join us at Highlights Foundation campus. There will be delicious, locally sourced meals, with snacks and beverages throughout the day. This retreat will be low-key and unstructured and a time to connect as a group. The Highlights Foundation campus has ample opportunities for walking, hiking, bird watching and gorgeous sunsets as the […]

Black YA Writers Personal Retreat

September 18 - 21, 2025

Black YA Writers Personal Retreat Come join us at the Highlights Foundation campus for a writing retreat. This long weekend is designed to allow you to focus on your writing and soak up the creativity granted to us through nature There will be delicious, locally sourced meals, with snacks and beverages throughout the day.  The […]

VCFA Allusionists' Retreat

September 18 - 21, 2025

VCFA Allusionists' Retreat Come join us at the Highlights Foundation campus for a writing retreat. This long weekend is designed to allow you to focus on your writing and soak up the creativity granted to us through nature There will be delicious, locally sourced meals, with snacks and beverages throughout the day. The Highlights Foundation […]

Jennifer Louden Writing Retreat 2025

September 21 - 27, 2025

**Retreat Name**   Come join us at Highlights Foundation campus for **a writing retreat**.  There will be delicious, locally sourced meals, with snacks and beverages throughout the day.  This retreat will be low-key and unstructured and a time to connect as a group.  The Highlights Foundation campus has ample opportunities for walking, hiking, bird watching […]

Kindling Words at Highlights

October 3 - 8, 2025

Kindling Words at Highlights   Come join us at Highlights Foundation campus for a retreat.  There will be delicious, locally sourced meals, with snacks and beverages throughout the day.  This retreat will be low-key and unstructured and a time to connect as a group. The Highlights Foundation campus has ample opportunities for walking, hiking, bird watching […]

Wing Night 2025

October 9 - 11, 2025

Come join us at the Highlights Foundation campus for Wing Night. There will be delicious, locally sourced meals, with snacks and beverages throughout the day.  This retreat will be low-key and unstructured and a time to connect as a group. The Highlights Foundation campus has ample opportunities for walking, hiking, bird watching and gorgeous sunsets as the […]

Viable Paradise Alum Retreat

October 9 - 12, 2025

Come join us at the Highlights Foundation campus for Wing Night. There will be delicious, locally sourced meals, with snacks and beverages throughout the day.  This retreat will be low-key and unstructured and a time to connect as a group. The Highlights Foundation campus has ample opportunities for walking, hiking, bird watching and gorgeous sunsets as the […]

The Pub Retreat 2025

October 10 - 17, 2025

The Pub Retreat 2025   Come join us at Highlights Foundation campus. There will be delicious, locally sourced meals, with snacks and beverages throughout the day.  This retreat will be low-key and unstructured and a time to connect as a group.  The Highlights Foundation campus has ample opportunities for walking, hiking, bird watching and gorgeous sunsets […]

Recharge: A Poet's Retreat

October 12 - 15, 2025

Escape from your daily distractions and focus on your writing. Come join us at Highlights Foundation campus for a retreat designed especially for poets. This retreat will be relaxed with structured and unstructured time to connect as a group or strike out on your own. The Highlights Foundation campus has ample opportunities for walking, hiking, […]

Prospect Agency Fall Retreat

October 17 - 19, 2025

Prospect Agency Fall Retreat   Come join us at Highlights Foundation campus for our Fall 2025 two-night retreat. There will be delicious, locally sourced meals, with snacks and beverages throughout the day and night.  This retreat will be low-key and a time to connect as a group.  The Highlights Foundation campus has ample opportunities for walking, […]

Penned by You Fall Writer's Retreat

October 19 - 22, 2025

Come join us at Highlights Foundation campus for **a writing retreat**.  There will be delicious, locally sourced meals, with snacks and beverages throughout the day.  This retreat will be low-key and unstructured and a time to connect as a group.  The Highlights Foundation campus has ample opportunities for walking, hiking, bird watching and gorgeous sunsets […]

Drexel MFA Program Writer's Fall Retreat

October 23 - 26, 2025

Drexel MFA Program Writer's Retreat Come join us at the Highlights Foundation campus for a writing retreat. This long weekend is designed to allow you to focus on your writing and soak up the creativity granted to us through nature. There are no formal classes, but writers may organize a  workshop if desired. You may […]

Peg and Awl Retreat

October 23 - 26, 2025

**Retreat Name**   Come join us at Highlights Foundation campus for **a writing retreat**.  There will be delicious, locally sourced meals, with snacks and beverages throughout the day.  This retreat will be low-key and unstructured and a time to connect as a group.  The Highlights Foundation campus has ample opportunities for walking, hiking, bird watching […]

Plotter Reunion and Retreat

November 9 - 14, 2025

Come join us at the Highlights Foundation campus.There will be delicious, locally sourced meals, with snacks and beverages throughout the day.  This retreat will be low-key and unstructured and a time to connect as a group.  The Highlights Foundation campus has ample opportunities for walking, hiking, bird watching and gorgeous sunsets as the campus is […]

Inked Voices Retreat

November 9 - 12, 2025

 Retreat   We're hosting our third in-person writing retreat for Inked Voices members at the Highlights Foundation and we'd love to have you join us. This retreat is carved out time for you to refill your creative well, in the company of other Inked Voices writers. We’ll write for most of the day – or […]

Jersey City Writers Retreat Fall 2025

November 14 - 16, 2025

**Retreat Name**   Come join us at Highlights Foundation campus for **a writing retreat**.  There will be delicious, locally sourced meals, with snacks and beverages throughout the day.  This retreat will be low-key and unstructured and a time to connect as a group.  The Highlights Foundation campus has ample opportunities for walking, hiking, bird watching […]

CAT Agency Retreat

November 16 - 20, 2025

Come join us at Highlights Foundation campus for a CAT Agency Creative Retreat!!   This 4-day retreat is an opportunity to gather with your CAT colleagues, and rest, connect, and create! We will have a loose, attend-if-you’d-like agenda, including presentations given by our Agents (and possibly some of you!), writing critique groups, portfolio reviews, brainstorming […]

Yoga Wellness Retreat

March 15 - 21, 2026

Yoga Wellness Retreat Five days on “pause” in nature practicing yoga. This is an opportunity to cleanse any debris that clouds your own natural way of being. When the waters settle your true, natural state of being is revealed. Untethered, you can create an inspired life without limits. Our time together will consist of…asana, meditation, […]

WAT Writing Alone Together Retreat

April 9 - 12, 2026

WAT Writing Alone Together Retreat Come join us at Highlights Foundation campus for a 3-night retreat. WAT (Writing Alone Together) is a zoom-room weekday morning writing group open to women and non-binary writers. There will be delicious, locally sourced meals, with snacks and beverages throughout the day. This retreat is low-key and unstructured, with ample […]

Theater Camp For Writers

April 16 - 19, 2026

Come join us at the Highlights Foundation campus for Theatre Camp for Writers. Link to the full workshop description here: https://sites.google.com/view/theater-camp-for-writers/home?authuser= There will be delicious, locally sourced meals, with snacks and beverages throughout the day. This retreat will provide some unstructured time to write, and to connect as a group. The Highlights Foundation campus has ample opportunities […]

CR template / organization paying

May 1 - 4, 2026

**Retreat Name**   Come join us at Highlights Foundation campus for **a writing retreat**.  There will be delicious, locally sourced meals, with snacks and beverages throughout the day.  This retreat will be low-key and unstructured and a time to connect as a group.  The Highlights Foundation campus has ample opportunities for walking, hiking, bird watching […]

CR template / individuals paying

May 1 - 4, 2026

**Retreat Name**   Come join us at Highlights Foundation campus for **a writing retreat**.  There will be delicious, locally sourced meals, with snacks and beverages throughout the day.  This retreat will be low-key and unstructured and a time to connect as a group.  The Highlights Foundation campus has ample opportunities for walking, hiking, bird watching […]