Come write with me at the Novel Retreat at Vermont College of Fine Arts

Whether you seek the reflective solitude of a retreat or writing time combined with consultations, group discussions, and more, the VCFA Novel Retreat enables you to craft an experience best suited to your individual needs. No matter what stage you’re at with your project—beginning, drafting, middle, or final edit—the retreat is designed to accommodate all aspects of the writing process.

Located amid the beauty of Vermont’s Green Mountains on the VCFA campus, retreat participants gain the added benefit of working with our renowned faculty. Our 2020 faculty includes Connie May Fowler, Miciah Bay Gault, Robin MacArthur, Adam McOmber, Crystal Wilkinson, and special guest literary agent Jeff Kleinman, founding partner at Folio Literary Management in New York City.

While participants and faculty write each morning, afternoons and evenings offer a variety of optional sessions, including craft and process discussions, generative writing classes, manuscript clinics, and agent advice.

Throughout the retreat, impromptu gatherings spontaneously bloom, inspiring insights and discoveries. This is perhaps one of the retreat’s greatest gifts: the invaluable friendships forged when living among a collective of writers.

.Focused solely on prose-based literary long forms such as novels, memoirs, and collections of short stories or essays

• 24-hour access to private writing studios

• Distinguished VCFA Novel Retreat faculty in residence

• The option to avail oneself to discussions, clinics, readings, and more

For more information : https://vcfa.edu/novel-retreat/