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Stories and Songs Writing Retreat – Montana/Yellowstone – Sept. 22-26, 2025

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Registration Deadline: May 15, 2025
Immerse yourself in pristine mountains and write under starry skies. For prose storytellers and songwriters. With novelist/memoirist/essayist Carolyn Flynn, novelist and songwriter Karen Leslie and the award-winning songwriter Clay Mills of Songtown. View our flyer for more information and link to our website.

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April 2023 eLitPak :: Story Catalyst Online Classes

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Sign up for the next virtual story catalyst classes! Lyric Essays taking place at 6 PM Mountain Time on Tuesday, April 2. Available live, virtual, and on demand. Sign up here. The lyric essay is one of literature’s most elegant forms, but what is it, and how can you write one? It may resemble poetry more than prose, and it may experiment with forms, such as the braided essay or the hermit crab essay. But its guiding force is the emotional truth. View flyer for more information.

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November 2021 eLitPak :: 2022 Uncommon Hours

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Live Virtual Classes on Craft, Publishing, and Productivity

Catalyze your writing in 2022 and meet with a success unexpected in common hours. Uncommon Hours 2022 monthly virtual class + generative writing community features 10 live classes on craft, publishing, and productivity. Boost your skills with craft tips; support yourself as a writer with self-care practices; and find out how to query agents, write book proposals, pitch editors, and submit to journals.

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Event :: Ireland Writing Retreat – Wild Atlantic Way – June 12-16, 2022

photograph of Ireland's Wild Atlantic WayRegistration Deadline: May 15, 2022
Event Dates: June 12-16, 2022
Location: Delphi Resort Adventure Spa in Leenane, Ireland
With Carolyn Dawn Flynn, acclaimed novelist/memoirist and TEDx speaker, and writer-poet Jona Kottler. Let the mythic landscape of Connemara call you to a writing adventure at this enchanted spa resort. For writers of fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. Participants receive an extensive editorial letter and individual consultations, plus craft talks. Whether you’re writing essays or a book-length memoir, short stories or a novel, this retreat is designed to help you deepen and refine your work-in-progress. You will have time to write at this generative and restorative retreat. Website: www.carolynflynn.com/ireland-retreat-2022/

Event :: September 1 Deadline to Register for Lost Sierras Writing Retreat

photograph of mountains and forest reflected in the waterDeadline: September 1, 2021
Event Dates: October 13-17, 2021
Event Location: Lodge at Whitehawk Ranch in the Lost Sierras near Clio, California
A generative and restorative writing retreat at the Lodge at Whitehawk Ranch in California facilitated by Carolyn Dawn Flynn, the Story Catalyst, acclaimed novelist, memoirist, and TEDx speaker; and poet, essayist, and novelist Jona Kottler. Let the pristine forest of California’s Lost Sierras be your inspiration for this generative and restorative retreat for writers of fiction and creative nonfiction. This retreat will help you deepen and refine your work. Participants receive an extensive editorial letter and individual consultations with a mentor. The cuisine and the landscape will be sumptuous, and there will be time to write! carolynflynn.com/sierra-writing-retreat-2021/

Event :: Lost Sierras Writing Retreat – October 13-17, 2021

photograph of mountains and forest reflected in the waterDeadline: September 1, 2021
Event Dates: Oct. 13-17, 2021
Event Location: Lodge at Whitehawk Ranch in the Lost Sierras near Clio, California.
A generative and restorative writing retreat at the Lodge at Whitehawk Ranch in California facilitated by Carolyn Dawn Flynn, the Story Catalyst, acclaimed novelist, memoirist, and TEDx speaker; and poet, essayist, and novelist Jona Kottler. Let the pristine forest of California’s Lost Sierras be your inspiration for this generative and restorative retreat for writers of fiction and creative nonfiction. This retreat will help you deepen and refine your work. Participants receive an extensive editorial letter and individual consultations with a mentor. The cuisine and the landscape will be sumptuous, and there will be time to write! carolynflynn.com/sierra-writing-retreat-2021/