Custom Retreat - Aligned

Applies to custom retreats that are industry or mission aligned (i.e. writing/illustration/kidlit, etc)

Theater Camp For Writers

April 3 - 6, 2025

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 […]

Drexel MFA Program Writer's Retreat

April 3 - 6, 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 […]

Prospect Agency Spring Retreat

April 11 - 13, 2025

Prospect Agency Spring Retreat   Come join us at Highlights Foundation campus for our April 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, hiking, bird […]

Pocono Believe 2025 -- All Aboard!

April 25 - 27, 2025

Pocono Believe 2025 -- All Aboard!   IMPORTANT REMINDER! You must first register through SCBWI for the event before registering for lodging here.   The train to publication is all about onboarding. From industry professionals to gatekeepers, and from our readers to ourselves everyone needs to BELIEVE in our work. Whether you're just getting started […]

The Motherlode Retreat

April 27 - May 1, 2025

The Motherlode Retreat   Come join us at the Highlights Foundation campus for The Motherlode Retreat. . We welcome all writers looking to gather in community and deepen our understanding of the Motherlode and how to write about it. We'll gather a few times each day for discussions, writing excercises, and generative prompts designed to […]

The Unreliable Narrators Retreat

May 24 - 29, 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 as […]

Personal Retreating with Carolyn Yoder

May 26 - 29, 2025

Enjoy a writing retreat, open only to graduates of Carolyn P. Yoder’s workshops, and limited to just four participants. These three days will be like a personal retreat with Carolyn Yoder in attendance. Modeled on Carolyn's writing retreat, four writers will spend time writing on their own, meeting daily with Carolyn, and participating in discussions […]

Team James Kidlit Retreat

May 29 - June 1, 2025

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 and gorgeous sunsets as the […]

Just Do It Alumni Retreat

June 12 - 15, 2025

Come join us at Highlights Foundation campus for Just Do It Alumni 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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

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, […]

Neurodiverse Kidlit Retreat

September 2 - 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. […]

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 […]

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, […]

Drexel MFA Program Writer's 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 […]

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 […]