What’s at the emotional core of your work? Bring your poetry, fiction, essays, or novel excerpt to this warm, welcoming week of generative exercises, literary conversations, and workshops enplein air. We will explore how transitions—empty nesting, job changes, new roles at home or work, loss, and new relationships—can fuel our creativity and connect us to the next phase of engagement with life and with writing. We will share techniques to harness the details, description, and emotional power often hidden in our ideas or on the page. You’ll learn new ways to breathe life into your writing practice and the dynamic creative work of revision. We will explore how poetry can help us write fiction and how fiction can help us write better poems. Two bestselling authors with expertise in literary and historical fiction, poetry, and non-fiction essays/memoir will create a relaxed, inclusive environment in which writers can tap into their creative desires and harness that power on the page.