Registration Closed: 12/7-12/8: Winter Solstice Writing Retreat

Winter Solstice Writing Retreat: Embrace the Light in Your Writing

Instructor: Angela Jackson-Brown
Dates: Saturday, December 7 and Sunday, December 8
Time: Day 1: 9:00 am – 5:30 pm; Day 2: 9:00 pm – 4:15 pm (once you sign up you will receive the schedule for the day)
Location: The Nicholson House, home of Indiana Humanities
Cost: $400 Nonmembers, $256 Writer/Reader Members, $224 Senior, Teacher, Student, Military/Veteran, Librarian Members
Price includes lunch, snacks, and beverages for both days

Join us for a transformative two-day Winter Solstice Writing Retreat. This retreat is designed to help writers overcome the winter slump and reignite their creative spark. Through a series of inspiring workshops and timed writing exercises, participants will learn to harness the unique inspiration of winter, set achievable goals, and develop sustainable writing routines. With guided sessions on overcoming creative blockages and integrating seasonal sensory details, writers will find renewed motivation and direction for their projects. The retreat offers opportunities for reflection, connection, and relaxation. Leave with practical tools, a personalized writing plan, and a supportive network of fellow writers to keep the momentum going long after the retreat. Rediscover the joy of writing this winter and let your creativity shine.

Angela Jackson-Brown is an award-winning writer, poet and playwright who is an Associate Professor in the creative writing program at Indiana University in Bloomington. She also teaches in the graduate program at the Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing at Spalding University in Louisville, KY. She is a graduate of Troy University, Auburn University and the Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing at Spalding University. She has published her short fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry in journals like The Louisville Journal and the Appalachian Review. She is the author of Drinking From a Bitter Cup, House Repairs, When Stars Rain Down and The Light Always Breaks. Her novels have received starred reviews from the Library Journal and glowing reviews from Alabama Public Library, Buzzfeed, Parade Magazine, and Women’s Weekly, just to name a few. When Stars Rain Down was named a finalist for the 2021 David J. Langum, Sr. Prize in American Historical Fiction, longlisted for the Granum Foundation Award, and shortlisted for the 2022 Indiana Authors Award. In October of 2023, Angela’s next novel, Homeward, a follow-up to When Stars Rain Down, will be published by Harper Muse.

The program is made possible in part by Indiana Humanities and the Indiana Authors Awards:

Indiana Humanities connects people, opens minds and enriches lives by creating and facilitating programs that encourage Hoosiers to think, read and talk. Learn more at www.IndianaHumanities.org.

The Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Awards honor the best books written by Indiana authors. Awarded every two years, they celebrate Indiana writers, shine a light on the Hoosier state’s literary community and deepen connections between Indiana writers and readers. They were established in 2009 as a vision of Eugene and Marilyn Glick and are a component of Indiana Humanities’ rich and diverse literary programming.

We do offer financial assistance and payment plans. Please email edu@indianawriters.org for more info. If you are interested in becoming a member, please visit this page.

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Course Instructor: Tina Tocco

Tina Tocco is a Pushcart Prize nominee. As a writer for both children and adults, her work has appeared in kiddie magazines, such as Highlights, Cricket, Humpty Dumpty, AppleSeeds, and Odyssey, and in literary journals, including New Ohio Review, River Styx, Crab Creek Review, Passages North, Potomac Review, Portland Review, Sou’wester, and Italian Americana. Tina’s writing has also been featured in Wild Things: The Best of Italian Americana (Fordham University Press, 2008), The Best Small Fictions 2019 (Sonder Press, 2019), Best Nonfiction Food (Woodhall Press, 2020), and other anthologies. A runner-up for the SCBWI’s Work-in-Progress Grant, Tina was also an honorable mention in the River Styx Schlafly Beer Micro-Brew Micro-Fiction Contest and a finalist in CALYX’s Flash Fiction Contest. Her interview on flash and the craft of writing, “No Wasted Words,” appears in Roanoke Review. In 2021, she was a reader-in-residence for flash fiction journal SmokeLong Quarterly. Tina earned her MFA in creative writing from Manhattanville College, where she was editor-in-chief of Inkwell. She has taught adults and kids for Hugo House, GrubStreet, Hudson Valley Writers Center, Arts Escape, Kids Short Story Connection, the SCBWI, and other organizations.

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Registration Closed: 12/7-12/8: Winter Solstice Writing Retreat

Course Instructor: Tina Tocco

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