Writers Retreat Workshop 2019

Nazareth Retreat Center in Boise, Idaho

July 1-10

Guest Instructors:

Donald Maass founded the Donald Maass Literary Agency in New York in 1980. His agency sells more than 150 novels every year to major publishers in the U.S. and overseas. He is the author of The Career Novelist (1996), Writing the Breakout Novel (2001), Writing the Breakout Novel Workbook (2004), The Fire in Fiction (2009), The Breakout Novelist (2011), and Writing 21st Century Fiction (2012) and most recently, The Emotional Craft of Fiction (2016).

Robin Burcell spent nearly three decades working in law enforcement as a cop, hostage negotiator, and as an FBI-trained forensic artist. She is the award-winning author of the Kate Gillespie police procedural series, the Sydney Fitzpatrick thriller series, a Streets of San Francisco novel, and is now writing thrillers with Clive Cussler on the Fargo series. Pirate, their first co-written book, was released in 2016. The Romanov Ransom, next in that series, came out in 2017, followed by The Gray Ghost in 2018.

Staff:

Arianne “Tex” Thompson

Jason Sitzes

Carol Dougherty

Comments from past participants:

Thank you! The workshop was a fantastic experience. I learned so much and enjoyed getting to know the participants and instructors, all intensely interesting and fine people…

I’ve done morning pages before with varying degrees of success; but with Carol’s direction and exercises (writing practice), I came to a major realization about a character who was well on his way to becoming a stereotype. I also got the germ of a couple of scenes from those sessions…

The readings, classes made all the difference for me…

I loved all of it but would have to say that I found the classes and the diagnostic sessions to be the most helpful in terms of learning about writing…

My friend says any workshop/retreat/conference that offers one nugget of insight is worth its weight in gold. If so, the Writers Retreat Workshop made me a wealthy woman…

The WRW classic 10-day boot camp for writers –

classes, one-on-one meetings, informal discussion,

and lots of writing.

Limited to 25 students * Early-bird pricing until April 1st

Learn more at www.wakeupandwritewrw.com