Sat, May 02
|Forage
CVWG 12-Hour Writers Retreat
Welcome to the 12-Hour Writers Retreat—a morning-to-night writing experience committed to supporting your work from idea to live reading!
Time & Location
May 02, 2026, 9:00 AM – 9:00 PM
Forage, 403 S Barstow St, Eau Claire, WI 54701, USA
About the event
It’s not easy to sneak away from daily life to attend a weeklong writers retreat. But might you sneak away for a day? Welcome to the 12-Hour Writers Retreat—a morning-to-night writing experience committed to supporting your work from idea to live reading! On Saturday, May 2, join 20 fellow writers for a fun (and food!) filled day at Forage. Enjoy guided writing exercises, unencumbered freewriting time, a supportive workshop, and a final show featuring you!
This retreat will be hosted by Tamara Dean author of Shelter and Stone: At Home in the Driftless. Click here to read an excerpt. Scroll on to learn more!
Writers 21+ are encouraged to register. Click here to register!
Tamara Dean is the author of Shelter and Storm: At Home in the Driftless (University of Minnesota Press, 2025), a collection of twelve essays that invite readers to consider how we tend the earth in times of uncertainty, what…