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Date of Visit: June 16, 2023 8.1 miles east of Wardensville is an Artesian spring that the locals refer to as “Cold Spring.” You will find it on the south side of Wardensville Pike (the road all outsiders, like me, tend to refer to as “48/55”–our primary reference being highway signs and maps). The spring…
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From Wikipedia: “The Lost River is a 31.1-mile-long (50.1 km)[2] river in the Appalachian Mountains of Hardy County in West Virginia‘s Eastern Panhandle region. The Lost River is geologically the same river as the Cacapon River: It flows into an underground channel northeast of McCauley along West Virginia Route 259 at “the Sinks” and reappears near…
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Join a small, welcoming, and supportive community of writers for a personalized writing retreat at one of West Virginia’s award winning and charming historic B and B’s. Writers of all experience levels and projects are welcome. A perfect opportunity for those who have been wanting to dive into that book project, collection, essay, family history,…
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I ask all writers to set a writing goal for themselves for their time at the retreat. It is important to keep our goals simple and realistic, of course. This helps us to avoid burning ourselves out or feeling like we’ve failed to use time effectively. This goal should be doable within the window of…
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Join a small, welcoming, and supportive community of writers for a personalized writing retreat at one of West Virginia’s most beautiful State Parks. Writers will stay in the historic cabins of Lost River State Park, a little over 2 hours outside of DC. Writers of all experience levels and projects are welcome. A perfect opportunity…
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Join a small and welcoming community of writers for a personalized writing retreat in one of West Virginia’s most beautiful State Parks. Writers of all experience levels and projects are welcome—a perfect opportunity for those who have been wanting to dive into that book project, collection, essay, family history, or script. Retreat participants will be…
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I’ve got two classes coming up this fall at The Hill Center in DC. Check them out! Classes: Writing DC: Writing About Place and Space Saturday, November 2nd, 1pm (The Hill Center) Writing Your Life Saturday, November 23rd, 1pm, (The Hill Center)
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June 13 through 16th, Lost River Valley, WV More Information on the Solstice Writing Retreat–Our Retreat ScheduleRetreat time is your time. Writers may choose to focus on their writing, socialize and attend events and activities, or stay with their projects as they are called during our retreat time. Please do not feel obligated to attend…
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Start the New Year with a Deep Dive into Your Writing Join a small, welcoming, and supportive community of writers for a personalized writing retreat at one of West Virginia’s most beautiful State Parks. Writers will stay in the historic cabins of Lost River State Park, a little over 2 hours outside of DC. Writers…
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I wrote this blog post for the Hill Center’s blog. You can find the post here (along with a super-scary-BIG photo of my face. (YIKES!) Part 2: Writing Groups and Groups that Support Writers Michelle LaFrance (our amazing writing teacher!) is guest writing on our blog about writing resources and building writing community. See more…
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I wrote this blog post for the Hill Center’s blog. You can find the post here (along with a super-scary-BIG photo of my face. (YIKES!) Part 1: Writing Coaches Michelle LaFrance (our amazing writing teacher!) is guest writing on our blog about writing resources and building writing community. See more about Michelle and her Hill…
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July 15th and 22nd The email I received from Kathy Kavanaugh read: “I live in the woods 7 miles outside of ‘downtown Mathias”’(good luck finding that). There are a couple of creeks to ford on the way in, although one is dry now. The other one has some water but not much, and both have…
Writing Lost River 