Note: This is a series of four separate writing retreats. You may attend all sessions, but you will need to register for each one individually. Choose your date(s) when you click the registration link.
Bring your blank pages or your current writing project to the Carnegie Center for a series of intensive and generative writing retreats. 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 of 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.
Session 1: Tuesday, January 13, 4:00-7:00 PM
Session 2: Tuesday, February 24, 4:00-7:00 PM
Session 3: Friday, April 17, 10:30-1:30 PM
Session 4: Thursday, May 14, 4:00-7:00 PM
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.
CANCELLATION POLICY:
The Carnegie Center reserves the right to cancel a class if minimum enrollment is not met. It is best to register early to help our instructors prepare and to ensure the class does not get cancelled. We evaluate registration numbers 6–2 business days before a class starts to decide whether we can hold the class. Classes that do not meet minimum enrollment will be cancelled six–two business days prior to the first class meeting. All participants will be notified by email and will receive full refunds.
