Last year, I was blessed to attend the Laity Lodge Writer’s Retreat, located about two hours from San Antonio. If Texas sounds unappealing to you in the West and North, this location will forever change your preconceptions.The location is magnificent, with great hiking, kayaking and swimming. I was totally isolated.
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And the real beauty of this retreat? There’s no agents, book selling or hawking. It’s all about the writing.
I’m headed back. This year, the writer’s retreat is being held Sept. 29 to Oct. 2.
There are fantastic general sessions, focusing on the heart and soul of the writer and then specialized workshops.
Five workshops are scheduled: Me, Myself and God: Spiritual Writing and Memoir in the Light of Faith, taught by Gregory Wolfe, writer-in-residence at Seattle Pacific University; Parable and Play: How to Write Stories Worth Reading More than Once, led by Jeffrey Overstreet, author and film critic; Gold from Straw: Poetry, taught by Julia Kasdorf, English professor and director of the Masters of Fine Arts program at Penn State University; Take and Think: Consuming Art in Order to Make Our Own, led by David Dark, author of Everyday Apocalypse: The Sacred Revealed in Radiohead, The Simpsons and Other Pop Culture Icons; and Songwriting, led by professional songwriters Jill Phillips and Andy Gullahorn.
There’s still room for you. More information on fees, location and retreat and workshop specifics can be found at the Laity Lodge web site.
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