| Tinker Mountain Writers' Summer Workshop | | 6/14/2026 - 6/19/2026 | We offer manuscript & write now workshops in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, or multigenre, and a tutorial option, in which you work with your faculty mentor one-on-one, focusing on your own work.
Craft talks, readings, social sessions, and interaction with faculty, including a one-on-one session with your faculty mentor, round out the week.
Faculty: Amanda Cockrell, Dorothy Hassan, Fred Leebron, Daniel Mueller, Lauren Osborn, Rebecca Lindenberg, Kristin Dombek, and Barbara Jones (agent). |
| Write a Query That Gets Manuscript Requests with Jane Friedman | | 7/1/2026 | Join publishing educator Jane Friedman for an in-depth workshop on writing query letters that compel agents and editors to request your work. Whether you're querying for the first time or refining a letter that hasn't landed, you'll walk away with the tools to open doors. |
| Write a Query That Gets Manuscript Requests | | 7/1/2026 | Does your query letter make an agent want to keep reading, or does it make them click away? What if the difference between a rejection and a manuscript request comes down to how well you’ve packaged your story premise?
Join us for this in-depth workshop with Jane Friedman, one of publishing’s most respected voices in author education, as she breaks down the anatomy of a query letter that works. Register at pwnwriters.org. |
| Virtual Writers Week | 6/4/2026 - 7/5/2026 | 7/6/2026 - 7/10/2026 | Writers Week is a five-day program for students entering 9th through 12th grade. Each day, participants attend writing and theatre workshops led by prose writers, poets, and performance artists. Included in the week are mini-workshops taught by program faculty, graduate students and guest artists. Rooted in the Sarah Lawrence College tradition of one-on-one interaction, the program offers students the opportunity to meet in small groups with workshop leaders. |
| Writers Week Session 1 | 6/4/2026 - 7/19/2026 | 7/20/2026 - 7/24/2026 | Writers Week is a five-day program for students entering 9th through 12th grade. Each day, participants attend writing and theatre workshops led by prose writers, poets, and performance artists. Included in the week are mini-workshops taught by program faculty, graduate students and guest artists. Rooted in the Sarah Lawrence College tradition of one-on-one interaction, the program offers students the opportunity to meet in small groups with workshop leaders. |
| Writers Week Session 2 | 6/4/2026 - 8/2/2026 | 8/3/2026 - 8/7/2026 | Writers Week is a five-day program for students entering 9th through 12th grade. Each day, participants attend writing and theatre workshops led by prose writers, poets, and performance artists. Included in the week are mini-workshops taught by program faculty, graduate students and guest artists. Rooted in the Sarah Lawrence College tradition of one-on-one interaction, the program offers students the opportunity to meet in small groups with workshop leaders. |
| Writeaway in France | 9/1/2025 - 8/4/2026 | 9/4/2026 - 9/11/2026 | Why write at home when you can write in a castle? Find your je ne sais quoi at Chateau du Pin in the Loire Valley of France. John Yewell and Mimi Herman, author of The Kudzu Queen will help you revitalize your writing while you pursue the project of your choice. Suitable for all levels, this weeklong workshop-retreat provides you with private consultations, daily workshops, a French cooking class, all meals and wine, and 300 acres of gorgeous French countryside. |
| Get Away to Write - Vermont | | 8/9/2026 - 8/14/2026 | COMING SOON:
August 9-14, 2026 in Grafton, VT. Combine an extended writing retreat with a relaxing summer vacation in the picturesque mountains of New Hampshire. This getaway blends our trademark challenging and supportive workshop experience with plenty of free time for you to write and bask in the refreshing New England summer. Enjoy encouraging workshops, homemade meals and good company. |
| Radical Reimagining: Growing the Archive with Shawna Kay Rodenberg | | 8/17/2026 - 8/21/2026 | Dölen Perkins-Valdez says that, “Somewhere between written and oral traditions is a space the imagination can fill.” Excavating the past can be especially intimidating for those of us who come from places where history is kept through oral traditions or inscrutable scraps of information. Words like ‘exhaustive’ are often used to describe bodies of knowledge, but this is the language of patriarchy, and it is possible to think of research instead as tending history, caring for it, and even growing |
| Fiction Intensive Workshop with Taymour Soomro | | 8/17/2026 - 8/22/2026 | In this workshop, we will close read and critique each other’s fiction. We will use each other’s writing as opportunities to discuss and explore questions of fiction craft such as structure, characterization, and voice. We will study how to read as writers, how to read for craft, and how to talk and think about fiction in a way that supports our craft. The challenges with fiction are never only technical. Often, the greater challenges are psychological. |
| Washington Island Literary Festival | | 9/17/2026 - 9/19/2026 | A three-day festival for writers and readers with featured presenters novelists Anika Fajardo, Jane Hamilton, and Naeem Murr; poet Erika Meitner, and memoirist Catherine Jagoe. |