2025 Finding Your Voice Mackinac Island Retreat Application
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One of our most popular writing retreats is back for 2025!
Our Finding Your Voice Retreat brings together poetry, fiction and nonfiction writers for an intensive week of generative writing, craft seminars, one-on-one conferences, and in-depth discussions on the craft and business of writing. Our program is inclusive, intentionally small, and will take place on the shores of Lake Huron on an island set between Michigan’s Lower and Upper Peninsulas with breathtaking views and the peace of a locale free of motor traffic and metropolitan noise.
This intimate writing retreat is open to all writers who want to strengthen their voice, develop a greater understanding of craft, and forge a path to publication along the way. We take your writing seriously and place the highest importance on teaching the craft of writing so that students can produce meaningful and memorable work that has the opportunity to find a readership beyond the retreat. Our mission is to bring your writing out of the wilderness and into community, and for a week this fall, we think there is no better place to do this than on the sunrise side of a peaceful Midwest island that has been a historic landmark since the 19th century, at our writers retreat.
Retreat Dates: September 14th - 18th, 2025
What will my application include?
- Brief bio informing us of your involvement in the writing and literary community and any prior or forthcoming publications. (250 words max)
- Purpose statement explaining why you would like to participate in Writing Workshops Mackinac Island. You can also discuss current manuscripts or writing projects that you might choose to workshop. (500 words max.)
- Writing sample excerpt in poetry, fiction or nonfiction. This does not have to be published work, though that is acceptable, nor does it have to be a piece you plan to receive feedback on from Lynne at the retreat. Complete works under the word count are not required; excerpts are acceptable. (Fiction/nonfiction: 2500 words max, poetry: up to 3 poems).
We look forward to reading your work!
Sincerely, Blake Kimzey, WritingWorkshops.com
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