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2025 Personal Retreats at The Barn at Boyds Mills
Personal Retreats at The Barn at Boyds Mills Please see more information about personal retreats here: https://thebarnatboydsmills.com/personal-retreats/
Revising Your Verse Novel 2024 Post-Course Critique Opportunity
With Cordelia Jensen
A Critique by Cordelia Jensen Cordelia Jensen invites attendees of the workshop to purchase an optional after-course critique. Writers may submit 10-15 poems (no more than 20 pages). Please make sure the work you submit is in 12 point font, in Times New Roman (or similar) font. Submission period is between January 27th - January 31st. A private session […]
Black YA Writers Personal Retreat
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 […]
Breaking Into the Educational Market: A Two-Night Mini
https://www.highlightsfoundation.org/?p=45104&post_type=tribe_events&preview=1&_ppp=5277fa2338
Diving Into Your New (or Next) Novel: An Online Workshop
https://www.highlightsfoundation.org/?p=45386&post_type=tribe_events&preview=1&_ppp=fdcb51a9e9
Diving Into Picture Books: Format, Structure, and Practice
https://www.highlightsfoundation.org/?p=45985&post_type=tribe_events&preview=1&_ppp=5839898d52
Turn Up the Volume on Quiet Picture Books: A Two-Night Mini
https://www.highlightsfoundation.org/?p=43731&post_type=tribe_events&preview=1&_ppp=bb7fd14b2b
The Power of Historical Novels in Verse: A Two-Part Mini on Using Poetry and History to Inspire
https://www.highlightsfoundation.org/?p=44057&post_type=tribe_events&preview=1&_ppp=6a1576eb5b
Mad Woman Literary Agency Retreat
Mad Woman Literary Agency Retreat All clients of Mad Woman Literary Agency are welcome to attend a three-day retreat in person at The Highlights Foundation from March 6 - 9. This will be an opportunity to connect with one another, have quality writing time in a peaceful setting, and learn from each other in workshops […]
Steel Clients Retreat
Steel Clients Retreat 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 […]
WAT Writing Alone Together Retreat
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 […]
Novel Retreat (Spring) with Editor Patricia Lee Gauch*
This invitation-based retreat is thoughtfully crafted to help you move your novel to the next level while working one-to-one with editor Patricia Lee Gauch. Agenda (Sunday, March 23 - Saturday, March 29, 2025) Prior to the retreat, you are asked to provide Patti with samples that she has requested to be sent to […]
Carrot Cake Hype Squad
Come join us at Highlights Foundation campus for a four-day 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 […]
Theater Camp For Writers
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
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 […]
Just Do It! Your Collaborative Support Group for Finishing Your Draft (Spring)
https://www.highlightsfoundation.org/?p=46119&post_type=tribe_events&preview=1&_ppp=a8959b2203
Prospect Agency Spring Retreat
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 […]
The Motherlode Retreat
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 […]
Asian and Asian American Voices: An In-Community Retreat
https://www.highlightsfoundation.org/workshop/asian-and-american-voices-an-in-community-retreat *please note the add a day option!
Muslim Storyteller Whole Novel Retreat (Spring)
Muslim Storytellers Whole Novel Retreat 2025 Register for the second part of your immersive, in-community Muslim Storytellers Whole Novel program. This 5-day/4-night immersive experience offers a supportive space for Muslim novelists to revise their stories, with limited programming and ample time to connect with fellow retreaters and find ways to amplify Muslim voices and […]
Jersey City Writers Retreat
Jersey City Writers 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, […]
Revision Retreat: Moving Your Story Ahead
https://www.highlightsfoundation.org/workshop/revision-retreat-moving-your-story-ahead
The Unreliable Narrators 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, bird watching and gorgeous sunsets as […]
Team James Kidlit Retreat
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 […]
All About Picture Books: A Retreat for Storytellers
https://www.highlightsfoundation.org/workshop/all-about-picture-books-a-retreat-for-storytellers
Revise and Rise: A Retreat for Novelists
Join two seasoned authors and book coaches for an immersive retreat at the Highlights Foundation campus designed specifically for novelists seeking to refine their craft and elevate their storytelling. In this retreat, we will help you build a road map to demystify the revision process and sort through conflicting advice to polish your manuscript while […]
Birth a Book Coach Retreat
**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 […]
BSFW Goes to Highlights
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 […]
Working Creatively With Conflict
**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
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
**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 […]
Summer Camp in Illustration: Intensive Artistic Inspiration
https://www.highlightsfoundation.org/?post_type=tribe_events&p=45298
Braintrust Retreat
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
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
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 […]
Summer Camp in Writing: Create and Dream!
https://www.highlightsfoundation.org/?p=45303&post_type=tribe_events&preview=1&_ppp=b66caf9a22
VCFA Writing for Children and Young Adults Alumnx Retreat
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
Join us for WCSU MFA’s 2024 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, […]
Cartoon Everything!
Cartoon Everything! Come join us at Highlights Foundation campus, where there will be delicious, locally sourced meals, with snacks and beverages throughout the day. There are ample opportunities for walking, hiking, bird watching and gorgeous sunsets as the campus is surrounded by nature and farms. You may check into your lodging (a private cabin […]
Sera Rivers Client Retreat
**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 […]
Black Voices: An In-Community Retreat for Storytellers
https://www.highlightsfoundation.org/workshop/black-voices-an-in-community-retreat-for-storytellers
Novels in Verse: Working Retreat
https://www.highlightsfoundation.org/workshop/novels-in-verse-working-retreat
Nonfiction Retreat: Science, Nature, Biography, and More
https://www.highlightsfoundation.org/workshop/nonfiction-retreat-science-nature-biography-and-more
Coming Home to Ourselves and Reclaiming Our Wholeness as Highly Sensitive People - Gathering Retreat
**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 […]
Middle Grade Writers: A Generative Retreat
https://www.highlightsfoundation.org/workshop/middle-grade-writers-a-generative-retreat
Picture Book Authors and Illustrators: Working Retreat
https://www.highlightsfoundation.org/workshop/picture-book-authors-and-illustrators-working-retreat
Jennifer Louden Writing Retreat 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 […]
Just Do It! Your Collaborative Support Group for Finishing Your Draft (Fall)
https://www.highlightsfoundation.org/?p=46135&post_type=tribe_events&preview=1&_ppp=9fa00fe208
Wing Night
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
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
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 […]
Prospect Agency Fall Retreat
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, […]
Drexel MFA Program Writer's Retreat
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 […]
Poetry Palooza! A Workshop for Poetry Lovers
https://www.highlightsfoundation.org/workshop/poetry-palooza-a-workshop-for-poetry-lovers
Writing Through Trauma & Grief to Empower Readers: A Retreat for Storytellers
https://www.highlightsfoundation.org/workshop/writing-through-trauma-and-grief-to-empower-readers-a-retreat-for-storytellers
Plotter Reunion and Retreat
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 […]
CAT Agency Retreat
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 […]
CR template / organization paying
**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
**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 […]