Mining Your Stories Writing Retreat

Join us for the eighth annual Writing Retreat at Shake Rag Alley, open to writers of all levels. Explore storytelling, research, poetry, experimental forms, and working across genres with retreat faculty Sheree L. Greer, Matthew Guenette, Raki Kopernik, B.J. Best, and Kim Suhr, with immersive workshops, manuscript consultations, and engaging talks. This weekend of writing in community will challenge you to explore new forms, deepen your writing practice, and are led by award-winning published authors and active, experienced teachers of writing. Choose your writing workshop with a focus on research in writing (Greer), poetic forms (Guenette), or generative fiction (Kopernik) and join a community of writers for a three-day intensive with prompts, sharing, and feedback. Interwoven around these main workshops are morning writing time, pop-up talks with B.J. Best (interactive fiction) and Kim Suhr (next steps with your writing), as well as social events, a faculty reading, and open mics. The community of Mineral Point will be sure to inspire with its galleries and local artists. Shake Rag Alley’s campus provides bio-breaks and quiet spaces to write as well. Manuscript consultations with all faculty are available on a first-come, first-served basis and at a very affordable price.