Considering a writers’ retreat or residency? read this before you decide.

In 2014 I accomplished two writers’ events–attending my first residency at Noepe and following it with a Monastic Writing class in Orvieto, Italy.

In 2015 I achieved a month-long writing experiment beginning in Martha’s Vineyard at Noepe and continuing into France at its conclusion two weeks later.

In 2016 I attended Iowa’s Novel Writing Intensive,

and in 2018 I attended the RWA Conference in Denver, Colorado.

We all know what happened in 2020. COVID tossed a hand grenade into the travel industry, and we were all too busy securing necessary household staples to worry much about applying for writers’ residencies or planning retreats.

Lately, I’ve noticed some traffic on these posts, which tells me writers are loosening up on traveling once again.

So here are a few links you might wish to check out:

What’s it like to live with other writers?

Choosing the best writers’ events.

My Monastic Writing experience in Orvieto, Italy.

What I learned in Iowa.

Ten reasons why writers love France.

Curious about something else not covered in the above blog posts, put it in the comments, and I’ll answer. Also, leave your links to other posts on writers’ events. We are all here to learn from each other.

Renee Johnson is the author of To Ride a Wylder Horse, Reminiscing Over Rainbow Gelato, Behind The Mask, Herald Angels, Acquisition, and The Haunting of William Gray.  She is currently working on a sweet romance and a historical novel while editing a suspense novel with international flair–an homage to her love of travel and foreign food.  She lives on a farm in North Carolina with her husband, Tony Johnson, and two very spoiled German shepherds named Hansel and Hannah.