Whether you’re interested in our six-day Spring Workshop and Retreat, our Fall Retreat, or our Ossabaw Craft & Seminar Day Trip, you will find inspiration and professional, one-on-one feedback from our nationally recognized faculty and staff. Ossabaw Writers’ Retreat offers a variety of programs to address the needs of writers hoping to expand their craft and improve their work-in-progress. We hope you will join us in this great literary tradition by taking part in one or more of the various programs offered by the Ossabaw Writers’ Retreat. Where loggerhead sea turtles and endangered wood storks nest, and photographers, writers, painters, and musicians listen, watch, reflect, and create.
Six-day Spring Retreat Workshops
Applications for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry at the 2025 Spring Retreat are open. Deadline February 1, 2025
Join us for our 13th annual Spring Ossabaw Island Writers’ Retreat, March 14-19, 2025
Work with one of our critically acclaimed writers in a workshop limited to five qualified participants. Each day, participants will bring manuscripts of their work-in-progress to their assigned workshop group where they will read, discuss and receive feedback about their projects from fellow participants and the assigned group leader. Workshop manuscripts should be limited to 12 pages poetry/16-20 pages fiction or non-fiction.
All work and no play make for a dull day–therefore, writers will have plenty of time to rest, relax and explore the island during the morning and afternoons. In addition, writers will meet with their faculty members one-on-one to discuss their manuscripts in detail.
WORKSHOP PARTICIPATION: $3595 tuition covers six days and five nights lodging, meals, writing workshops, one-on-one manuscript consultations with nationally recognized authors, craft seminars, readings, visiting agents and publishers, ferried transportation to the island, and special hotel rates for those who wish to visit Savannah before or after the Retreat. $200 early-bird discounts before November 30, 2024.
APPLICATION DEADLINE: Application deadline, February 1, 2025. Early applications highly recommended since there are limited openings (five-six per genre) and the retreat tends to fill quickly.
EXCITING NEWS! We’re now offering full scholarships to three recipients who apply for the scholarship and partial discounts for a limited number of university students, military personnel, and teachers.
*Special thanks to Linda Waldren for scholarships supporting military personnel, teachers, and young poets.
*We’d also like to send a special thanks out to the Diggs Family Foundation for their kind support. We are able to offer full and partial tuition waivers because of your kind and generous support.