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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/
Neurodiverse Kidlit Retreat
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. […]
Summer Camp in Illustration: Intensive Artistic Inspiration
https://www.highlightsfoundation.org/?post_type=tribe_events&p=45298
Disability Representation in Novels for Kids: A Two-Night Mini
Writing for the Educational Market: A 6-Week Online Program (Summer)
https://www.highlightsfoundation.org/workshop/writing-for-the-educational-market-summer/
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 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
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 […]
Intro to Novels in Verse: Drafting and Deepening Your Story
https://www.highlightsfoundation.org/workshop/intro-to-novels-in-verse-drafting-and-deepening-your-story/
Summer Camp in Writing: Create and Dream!
https://www.highlightsfoundation.org/?p=45303&post_type=tribe_events&preview=1&_ppp=b66caf9a22
Picture Book Essentials: A Two-Night Mini for Picture Book Writers
https://www.highlightsfoundation.org/workshop/picture-book-essentials-a-two-night-mini-for-picture-book-writers/
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 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
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, […]
Poetry, Memory, And Creative Flow: A Generative Two-Night Mini
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
Getting the Gig: A Two-Night Mini on Speaking Opportunities for Storytellers
https://www.highlightsfoundation.org/workshop/getting-the-gig-a-two-night-mini-on-speaking-opportunities-for-storytellers/
Nonfiction Retreat: Science, Nature, Biography, and More
https://www.highlightsfoundation.org/workshop/nonfiction-retreat-science-nature-biography-and-more
Welcome to the Whole Novel Workshop: An In-Person Retreat for Novelists (August)
OVERVIEW: Congratulations on your acceptance into the Whole Novel Workshop: A Summer Retreat for Novelists! The Whole Novel Workshop offers writers the rare opportunity to have the entire draft of a novel (up to 80,000 words) read with written feedback and a private consultation, along with rich presentations specifically designed for novelists at this stage […]
Big Picture Revision: A Two-Night Mini with Editor Harold Underdown
https://www.highlightsfoundation.org/workshop/big-picture-revision-a-two-night-mini-with-editor-harold-underdown/
2-night special, August 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/
Coming Home to Ourselves and Reclaiming Our Wholeness as Highly Sensitive People - Gathering Retreat
**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 […]
Expressing Your Voice: A Two-Night Workshop for YA & MG Novelists
https://www.highlightsfoundation.org/workshop/expressing-your-voice-with-dialogue/
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
Monsters & Mayhem: A Two-Night Mini for Young Adult Horror Writers
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 […]
VCFA Allusionists' Retreat
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
**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 […]
From Idea & Sketch to Dummy & Submission: An Author/Illustrator Online Course
https://www.highlightsfoundation.org/workshop/from-idea-and-sketch-to-dummy-and-submission/
Kindling Words at Highlights
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 […]
Intro to Nonfiction Writing: History, Biography, Steam and Much More
https://www.highlightsfoundation.org/workshop/intro-to-writing-nonfiction-history-biography-steam-and-much-more/
Diving into Picture Books (Fall)
https://www.highlightsfoundation.org/workshop/diving-into-picture-books-format-structure-and-practice/
Just Do It! Your Collaborative Support Group for Finishing Your Draft (Fall)
https://www.highlightsfoundation.org/workshop/just-do-it-your-collaborative-support-group-for-finishing-your-draft-fall/
Welcome to the Whole Novel Genre: An Online Course for Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Horror, & Beyond
OVERVIEW: Welcome to this Multi-Month Online Course with a Full Novel Critique! The Highlights Foundation Whole Novel Workshop offers you the rare opportunity to have the entire draft (up to 80,000 words) of a novel read by faculty, with detailed written feedback and a private consultation provided. This online program in particular is for writers […]
Wing Night 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
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, […]
Penned by You Fall Writer's 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 […]
Thrills, Chills & Mystery in MG: A Two-Night Workshop
https://www.highlightsfoundation.org/workshop/thrills-chills-mystery-a-two-part-mini-on-genre-tales-for-mg-readers/
Drexel MFA Program Writer's Fall 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 […]
From Story to Script: An Introduction to Writing Graphic Novels
https://www.highlightsfoundation.org/?p=47581&post_type=tribe_events&preview=1&_ppp=ddce472ea2
Peg and Awl 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 […]
Welcome to the Whole Novel Workshop: An In-Person Retreat for Novelists (October)
OVERVIEW: Congratulations on your acceptance into the Whole Novel Workshop: A Fall Retreat for Novelists! The Whole Novel Workshop offers writers the rare opportunity to have the entire draft of a novel (up to 80,000 words) read with written feedback and a private consultation, along with rich presentations specifically designed for novelists at this stage […]
Successful School Visits for Authors and Illustrators: An Online Course
https://www.highlightsfoundation.org/workshop/successful-school-visits-for-authors-and-illustrators-an-online-course/
Poetry Palooza! A Workshop for Poetry Lovers
https://www.highlightsfoundation.org/workshop/poetry-palooza-a-workshop-for-poetry-lovers
Marketing Opportunities for Storytellers: A Two Night Mini
https://www.highlightsfoundation.org/workshop/marketing-opportunities-for-storytellers-a-two-night-mini/
Revising Your Novel in Verse: An Online Course
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 […]
Inked Voices Retreat
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
**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
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 […]
Rodale Institute Consulting Team 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]