Schedule for Writer's Sanctuary

We're looking forward to our retreat this fall.

Sanctuary is a weekend writing retreat that offers a welcoming and safe environment for individuals to learn more about poetry, be inspired by nature, and experience a safe, welcoming community with other like-minded individuals.

At the retreat, creatives will engage in writing instruction, exercises with visual art, and opportunities to be in nature. They also will learn how mental health and mindfulness are connected to writing.

The retreat will be at Riverwoods in St. Charles, Illinois. It is an 85-acre wooded campus on Fox River. Delicious home-cooked meals will be provided. Lodging is in cabins with bunk beds in shared rooms.

Complete this sign-up sheet if you are interested. Once you complete the sign-up sheet, we'll send the links to where you can pay for registration.

Costs:

$600 (all-inclusive: meals, lodging, retreat)

$500 (meals and retreat)

$400 (retreat)

$75 (Friday day pass)

$150 (Saturday or Sunday day pass)

Here's the retreat schedule.

Friday, October 25

6p-7p Welcome & dinner

7p-8:30p Writing games

8:80p-9p Writing & Wellness

Saturday, October 26

7a-8:30a Breakfast

8a-9a Writing & Wellness (optional)

9a-10a Power of the First Line

10a-11a Building Vocabulary

11a-11:15a Movement break

11:15a-noon Power of Punctuation

noon-1p Lunch

1p-2p Freetime/Break

2p-3:30p How-to poems/prose

3:30p-4:30p Writing & Wellness

4:30p-5:30p Writing Habit & Practice & Routine

5:30p-6p Break

6p-7p Dinner

7-8:30p Writing Games

Sunday, October 27

7a-8:30a Breakfast

8a-9a Writing & Wellness (optional)

9a-10:30a Lessons from Fiction Writing

10:30a-11:30a Art

11:30a-12:30p Write-in

12:30p-1:30p Lunch

1:30p-2p Closure & Dismal

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