Writing Retreats
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Program Description
Fernland Studios writing retreats provide people with time, financial support, and a network to honor how their work contributes to a larger body of activism, artistry, community, and research. This year’s session will run from July 22-27 at Salishan Coastal Lodge in Gleneden Beach, Oregon. Participants will join a Zoom call one month prior to discuss logistics and community agreements.
This one-week retreat offers creative and ecological dreamers the opportunity to engage in integrative conversations centering on rest, rejuvenation, and reciprocity. We invite people to breathe, aspire, and dream in the spaces they manifest at the intersections of art, ecology, and education. This year’s session is co-lead by Jen Shin and Jacqueline Fitzgerald.
We encourage artists from all stages of their practice and genres to apply their literary practices to communicate about an aspect of ecological relationships. Participants can share their work at a future Fernland Studios workshop, artist talk, or speaker session.
Join our information session on Friday, March 22: https://bit.ly/fernland-info.
Scholarship Information
This program is provided at no cost to the applicant, and Fernland Studios provides $1,000 for participants to use toward transportation to our central meeting location, meals, and creative practice. Fernland Studios staff are available to brainstorm ideas, discuss communications partnerships, or provide other forms of storytelling strategy to all programming participants.
Selection Process
The Fernland Studios Executive Board members review applications. Selection is based on the proposed work’s connection to Fernland Studios’ mission, vision, and values. Participants must be 18+, and all participants working and living across the United States/Turtle Island in 2024 are eligible, while prioritizing participants in the Pacific Northwest.
Programming Expectations
Participants must commit to joining the entirety of the workshop. If you’re unable to join the workshop, please provide at least 72 hours’ notice if possible. Unfortunately, we cannot accommodate pets due to the location. We are also unable to accommodate partners or guests.
Participants agree that work shared in workshops is confidential and will not be shared or discussed outside the residency without their permission. Participants agree not to record any portion of the workshop or share any materials made available without permission.
Participants must inform Fernland Studios how the funds were used within a year of funding. This information will provide Fernland Studios with a better understanding of supporting other participants interested in our work. We encourage participants to share their work with Fernland once programming concludes so we can continue to learn how to support your work and work in conversation with you.
Fernland Studios reserves the right to remove anyone from the workshop whose actions are deemed detrimental to staff and fellow participants. We encourage you to inform Fernland’s staff if you witness harm being done to a fellow participant or yourself.
All participants must agree to these expectations in the application process.
Programming Alumni