Professional Retreats

Mark Your Calendars!

We hope you’ll apply to join SCBWI Western Washington for our second weekend working retreat, taking place November 7-9, 2008 at Alderbrook Resort & Spa. Patricia Lee Gauch, Vice President and Editor-at-Large of Philomel Books, and famed workshop leader Darcy Pattison will send you home with strategies and tools for honing your writing voice in this intimate, craft-oriented retreat.

In addition to focused workshops and time to write, reflect, and relax, the retreat will include:

• Two nights’ lodging in luxurious rooms (shared with one roommate) at one of the premier resort destinations in the Northwest that truly evokes “the spirit of Hood Canal”
• Five catered meals
• Kid-Lit Movie Nights, complete with popcorn and contests
• Free time for walks, kayaking, swimming, relaxing, resting, and networking

Participation will be limited and will require an application. All participants accepted through the blind screening must have completed a first draft of a novel or have finished a picture-book manuscript or dummy.

Details to be revealed in spring 2008. Stay tuned!