Jumpstart your fall writing! Bring you blank pages or your current writing project to the Carnegie Center for an intensive and generative half-day writing retreat. Leatha Kendrick will provide writing exercises and prompts designed to help you find the heart of the writing you want to do. Come to deepen your working draft or to find the spark for something new. Join us for quiet writing time and opportunities to share your work and receive supportive feedback as you reconnect with your writer self.
Suitable for writers of all levels.
Leatha Kendrick is a poet, writer, editor and teacher. Her poems and essays appear widely in journals including Appalachian Journal, Still: An Online Journal, Tar River Poetry, New Madrid Review, the Southern Poetry Review, Appalachian Review, and the Baltimore Review. Her writing has been collected in anthologies including Women Speak (vols. 8 & 9); The Kentucky Anthology; The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume 3; I to I: Life Writing by Kentucky Feminists; and What Comes Down to Us – Twenty-Five Contemporary Kentucky Poets. Her fifth book of poetry is And Luckier (Accents Publishing, 2020). She has led workshops in memoir, poetry, fiction, and writing to heal at the Carnegie Center and at colleges and conferences for more than three decades.
