Name: Writing the Wild Retreat: The Shrine of St. Therese
Start: 2025-09-04T15:00:00-08:00
End: 2025-09-07T11:00:00-08:00
Location: The Shrine Of St Therese

Writing the Wild Retreat: The Shrine of St. Therese

This year’s writing retreat at the beautiful Shrine of St. Therese offers an opportunity to quiet our minds and engage in discovery through writing as summer transitions to autumn. Mornings will be spent walking and writing with readings and optional feedback on our writing. Afternoon will allow free time to walk, read, and write on your own; evening will be for group readings of our work and reflections on what it means to write in the wild, both physically and metaphorically. Together, we’ll walk and write toward a deepened sense of peace and place. All writing levels welcome.
This retreat is open to members of 49 Writers only. Space is limited, so don’t hesitate to reserve your spot today!
Member price: $525/person room and board included.
Schedule and Registration Information: https://49writers.org/.../the-shrine-of-st-therese.../
About our guest instructor:
Brendan Isaac Jones is a novelist, essayist, and journalist focused on environmental issues concerning the Tongass rainforest in Alaska. He is the author of the young adult novel Whispering Alaska, winner of a Green Book Award, and the Alaskana award winning novel The Alaskan Laundry, also longlisted for a First Novel Prize by the Center for Fiction. His essays and works of literary journalism have appeared in The New York Times, The Smithsonian, The Huffington Post, Narrative Magazine, the Anchorage Daily News, and NPR. He is a graduate of Oxford University and Stanford University, where he was awarded a Stegner Fellowship in fiction, and a recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship in Russia. He lives in Sitka with his wife and three daughters. Learn more about Brendan and his work at https://www.brendanisaacjones.com/