Retreats

Innovation & Empowerment: A Workshop for Writers
Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture, https://ionionartscenter.gr/
The Greek Island Kefalonia | July 10- 28, 2026
Application is required through e-mail at info@ionionartscenter.gr
Deadlines for applications: March 30, 2026
Deadline for final enrollment: May 10, 2026

Additional Information : info@ionionartscenter.gr & ionionartscenter@gmail.com
Class program: kristina.marie.darling@gmail.com

This workshop brings together an extraordinary faculty on the gorgeous greek island of Kefalonia to explore innovation and empowerment across literary genres. Featuring seminars led by Rita Banerjee, Molly Gaudry, Kristina Marie Darling, Simone Muench, Cutter Streeby, & Elizabeth A.I. Powell, we will discover new strategies for collaboration, hybrid writing, crafting short films and book trailers, as well as celebrating the artistic heritage of the island through lectures on the ode, Greek drama, and other topics as determined by student interest. The workshop will culminate in excursions to Assos, Fiskardo, Myrtos Beach, and many other breathtaking places on the island, where we will write and perform our work. Several distinguished visiting writers—including Matthew Rohrer, Avia Tadmor, Diana Whitney, and Jose Filipe Alvergue—will also join via zoom to share their work and provide writing prompts that will guide our creative practice.

The Cambridge Writers’ Workshop Budapest and Prague Writing Retreat will be held from July 19 to July 27, 2024 in the historic city center of Budapest, Hungary and Prague, Czech Republic. The retreat features writing and publishing workshops, craft seminars, and generative writing sessions for poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers. The faculty includes poets and prose writers Rita Banerjee and Diana Norma Szokolyai. The cost of the retreat is $4,800, which includes tuition, lodging, daily breakfast, and special meals. Using only the online application system, submit 5 to 10 pages of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, or hybrid work, and a brief cover letter (including a bio and contact information for two references) with a $10 application fee by June 1. Early applications strongly encouraged as seats are limited on the retreat. Multilingual poetry and prose submissions, including self-translations, are welcome. Partial scholarships for BIPOC writers, LGBTQ+ writers, writers who are students, and writers who are parents are available. To apply for a scholarship, submit a general retreat application, as well as a cover letter, including a statement on how the scholarship will assist you in meeting your writing goals, by May 15. There is no application fee for scholarships. Registration is first come, first served; space is limited. Visit the cww.submittable.com for an application form and more information.

The Cambridge Writers’ Workshop Paris Writing Retreat will take place from July 19-25, 2023.  Situated in heart of Paris’ Montparnasse neighborhood, amongst the fresh and popular open air markets and charming boutiques, the hotel stay is full of Parisian charm, and retreat activities will include craft of writing seminars and creative writing workshops, literary tours of Paris. If you’re serious about writing and want to soak in some exquisite French culture this summer, join our retreat in Paris!   The faculty includes award-winning writers Diana Norma Szokolyai and Rita Banerjee.  Genres include poetry, fiction, nonfiction, drama, and hybrid. If you’d like to join us in Paris, France, please apply online at cww.submittable.com by June 1, 2023. More info: cww.nyc 

The Tongass Mist Writing Retreat featuring Visiting Writer Rita Banerjee will take place at the Tongass Fine Arts Campus in Sitka, Alaska from April 12-16, 2023. Tongass Mist Writing is owned and operated by Ruth Underhill, a local Sitkan with a dream to see more writers experience and cherish the mists of the Tongass National Forest with the knock of raven call and sound of rocks rolling up the shores of this beautiful Tlingit Aáni land where she lives as a very lucky guest. Ruth shapes retreats and writing resources to allow artists to carry its wild and beauty into their diverse and empowered writing. The retreat includes lodging on an oceanfront campus, daily meals, wilderness excursions, six literary salons, fireside readings, a wildlife cruise, and sauna. Tongass Mist welcomes its second visiting writer to Sitka in April 2023. Rita Banerjee will join us on the Sitka Fine Arts Campus April 12-16th for a four day retreat featuring wilderness excursions, generative writing salons, readings by a fire, literary craft talks and the incomparable experience of creating, enjoying a welcoming art community in the heart of the Tongass National Forest. Rita comes to visit us with incredible experience writing, film making, teaching, publishing and directing writing programs across the country. To apply, submit an application on the Tongass Mist Writing Retreat website by March 19, 2023 at 3 pm Alaska Standard Time.