In April and November of each year, we’re delighted to welcome writers from across the region to campus for a weekend retreat. These retreats are a time for folks to gather in community with each other, work with a respected and published facilitator, and work independently on their writing projects.
Unlike a workshop where there are formal classes and discussion and critique of students’ pieces, Troublesome Creek Writers Retreats are loosely structured so that attendees can focus on the goals they have and use the time as they need. The facilitator will offer sessions on craft or the writing process, but they are optional. The facilitator will also be available for individual discussions with writers about their work and writing goals.This past spring, we were happy to welcome back Silas House as the retreat facilitator. Along with sessions about nature writing and a hike through the woods on campus in honor of Earth Day, attendees were honored to help celebrate Silas’s new appointment as Kentucky’s official Poet Laureate the weekend before his tenure began.
For our fall retreat, we are delighted to announce our two facilitators: Danni Quintos and Wesley Browne.
Danni Quintos is the author of the poetry collection Two Brown Dots, chosen by Aimee Nezhukumatathil as a winner of the A. Poulin Jr. Prize, and PYTHON, an ekphrastic chapbook featuring photography by her sister, Shelli Quintos. She is a Kentuckian, knitter, educator, and an Affrilachian Poet. She received her BA from The Evergreen State College, and her MFA in Poetry from Indiana University. Her work has appeared in Poetry Magazine, Cream City Review, Cincinnati Review, The Margins, Best New Poets 2015, Salon, and elsewhere.
Wesley Browne is a Madison County writer whose 2020 debut novel Hillbilly Hustle was named one of Merriam-Webster’s 17 recommended pandemic reads. His stories, essays, and excerpts have been published or are forthcoming in Appalachian Review, Appalachian Journal, Anthology of Appalachian Writers, Cutleaf Journal, Still: The Journal, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and the annual Bouchercon Anthology of crime and mystery stories. He is a past recipient of the Gurney Normal Prose Prize and a Kentucky Press Association Award for his newspaper columns and is represented by Alice Speilburg of Speilburg Literary. He founded and hosts Pages & Pints Reading Series at Apollo Pizza in Richmond, Kentucky.The fall retreat runs from the evening of Friday, November 3rd until check-out at your leisure Sunday the 5th.
Space is limited with each facilitator, so register soon! Click here to register for Danni’s sessions and here for Wesley’s.
