Retreat

About

The Anaphora Writing Retreat is a program designed to bring writers of color together in community, to carve out time and space to focus on their creative work.

This year, Anaphora Arts is excited to partner with Pacific University’s MFA in Creative Writing Program to launch the retreat.

The program will be held virtually on November 3 - 6, 2022, and will offer talks, generative exercises, writing sessions, with the objective of creating a platform to extend the network for writers of color. Each day, different guests will give craft talks, conduct generative exercises, and provide readings in the evenings. The retreat will also include different writing sessions, and facilitated conversations.

Dates & Fees

The retreat will be held virtually on November 3 - 6, 2022. The program costs $350, and several partial fellowships are available every year, depending on funding availability.

Participants must register by the priority deadline to be eligible for fellowships (the fellowship amounts will be reflected in the reduced price of $250 for those who register by the priority deadline). Our Founding Fellows and returning alumnx will have the opportunity to attend the program at a discounted rate.

Registration is now open! The priority deadline is October 20, 2022, with the final deadline on October 31, 2022. Registration automatically guarantees participation into the program; all fees must be paid prior to the beginning of the retreat.

What to Expect

The program will provide: morning writing sessions, craft talks, generative exercises, discussion sessions, readings, peer-review sessions, and more.

Speakers

De'Shawn Charles Winslow

De'Shawn Charles Winslow is the author of In West Mills, a Center for Fiction First Novel Prize winner, an American Book Award recipient, a Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction winner, and a Los Angeles Times Book Award, Lambda Literary Award, and Publishing Triangle Award finalist. He was born and raised in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, and graduated from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

Siddhartha Deb

Born in north-eastern India, Siddhartha Deb is the author of two novels and The Beautiful and the Damned, a work of narrative nonfiction that was a finalist for the Orwell Prize and the winner of the PEN Open award. A columnist for the “Bookends” section of The New York Times Book Review and The Baffler, a contributing editor to The New Republic and a fellow of The Orwell Foundation, he is the recipient of grants and fellowships from the Society of Authors in the UK, the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Studies at Harvard University, and the Howard Foundation at Brown University. His journalism, essays, and reviews have appeared in numerous publications, including The Guardian, The New York Times, The Baffler, The Nation, n+1, and The Times Literary Supplement.

Kao Kalia Yang

Kao Kalia Yang is a Hmong-American writer. She is the author of the memoirs The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir, The Song Poet, and Somewhere in the Unknown World. Yang is also the author of the children’s books A Map Into the World, The Shared Room, The Most Beautiful Thing, and Yang Warriors. She co-edited the ground-breaking collection What God is Honored Here?: Writings on Miscarriage and Infant Loss By and For Native Women and Women of Color. Yang’s work has been recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Chautauqua Prize, the PEN USA literary awards, the Dayton’s Literary Peace Prize, as Notable Books by the American Library Association, Kirkus Best Books of the Year, the Heartland Bookseller’s Award, and garnered four Minnesota Book Awards. Kao Kalia Yang lives in Minnesota with her family, and teaches and speaks across the nation.