“I love teaching classes that demystify revision so that writers can feel more at ease with the process and learn new jumping off points for engaging with their own work.” -Stacey Swann
“All of us are constantly changing and growing, but in nonfiction, and especially in memoir, there’s always that first principle of telling the truth.” -Rachel Starnes
“The chance to go more deeply into a process or topic for twelve hours over four weeks, and develop relationships over a whole month, at a very reasonable price, is invaluable.” -Chaitali Sen
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“I believe that the Summer Writing Retreat is a fantastic opportunity for writers to get their creative wells filled, so to speak. It’s almost like you can feel the re-ignition of enthusiasm and courage that seems to fire up participants as they share and refine their work. Plus, it’s a blast!” Charlotte Gullick
“There’s a special connection in the Summer Writing Retreat. Getting extended time to get to know both students and their works in progress, and to build an all-new community with them, is always tremendously rewarding.” Stacey Swann
“I love teaching at the WLT Summer Writing Retreat because it reminds me that the main reason we are on the planet is to connect with each other and share our stories.” – Donna M. Johnson
“Writing has always been my way of figuring out what I think, and the genre of nonfiction is such a wide open place for exploration.” -Rachel Starnes Rachel Starnes is the author of the critically-acclaimed memoir The War at Home: A Wife’s Search for Peace and Other Missions Impossible. She received her
“The discussions and exercises we do can be just as helpful to the writer who has already written several novels […] as the writer who is on their first novel attempt.” — Stacey Swann Stacey Swann’s fiction has appeared in The Bridport Prize Anthology 2017, Epoch, Memorious, Versal, Covered W/ Fur,
Poetry is about finding the right detail to say what you want to say. It’s about finding a unique and memorable way to make the mundane or everyday vivid. — Christine Butterworth-McDermott Christine Butterworth-McDermott is the founder of Gingerbread House Literary Magazine, an online journal that focuses on work with a
