Whether your book is fiction or creative non-fiction, if you are a dedicated writer working on a larger project, this is the long-term container of inspiration, motivation, community and support you have been wanting, UPCOMING 2025 RETREATS: France, Grand Lake, and Iceland
Now is not the time to be silent. Now is the time to double down and make art.
I would love to help: Reach out with any questions.
Over the last 8 years, we’ve had lots of people retreat together: couples, writing partners, sisters, besties, writing groups, long-lost brothers (wink)…even writing partners who were meeting in person for the first time!
(Not to mention we’ve celebrated many birthdays, too.)
with Nancy Stohlman and Robert Vaughan in the sunflower fields!
“The French Retreat was definitely worth travelling from the other side of the world for! Brilliant, accomplished teachers – incredibly warm, encouraging group of writers – how marvellous to have time together talking about books and sharing our work. The setting was magical – sunflowers opened up as did our writing. Gorgeous retreat facility – still missing being in that amazing space and those sumptuous meals. Very highly recommended. Thank you so much for a rich, memorable time. I’ll be signing up again!”
with Nancy Stohlman and Kathy Fish, welcoming you back to our always beautiful home state of Colorado!
“Kathy and Nancy have truly curated something special in these retreats, whether it’s the setting of the chosen space or the workshops themselves. I’ve never been in a group so talented and caring, and I grew so much from our time together. I’ve been academia too long, and it has often desensitized me to my own writing process, but this retreat forced me to be still and love both myself and my work again.”
with Nancy Stohlman and Selah Saterstrom in the magical darkness (and the hot spring!)
“Retreats allow for total immersion in the creative process, and it was a tremendous gift to my writing life. It was my first destination retreat experience and it has changed my writing life forever. I was open to the experience, and everything exceeded my expectations from the scenery, the writing conversations, the people, the depth, and the instruction. This group has become my forever writing people.“
~Tammy Evans
A writing retreat is the Valentine’s Day gift you give yourself.
with Nancy Stohlman and Robert Vaughan in the sunflower fields!
“The French Retreat was definitely worth travelling from the other side of the world for! Brilliant, accomplished teachers – incredibly warm, encouraging group of writers – how marvellous to have time together talking about books and sharing our work. The setting was magical – sunflowers opened up as did our writing. Gorgeous retreat facility – still missing being in that amazing space and those sumptuous meals. Very highly recommended. Thank you so much for a rich, memorable time. I’ll be signing up again!”~ Fiona Lynch
with Nancy Stohlman and Kathy Fish, welcoming you back to our always beautiful home state of Colorado!
“Kathy and Nancy have truly curated something special in these retreats, whether it’s the setting of the chosen space or the workshops themselves. I’ve never been in a group so talented and caring, and I grew so much from our time together. I’ve been academia too long, and it has often desensitized me to my own writing process, but this retreat forced me to be still and love both myself and my work again.” ~Bailey Moore
with Nancy Stohlman and Selah Saterstrom in the magical darkness (and the hot spring!)
“Retreats allow for total immersion in the creative process, and it was a tremendous gift to my writing life. It was my first destination retreat experience and it has changed my writing life forever. I was open to the experience, and everything exceeded my expectations from the scenery, the writing conversations, the people, the depth, and the instruction. This group has become my forever writing people.“~Tammy Evans
A writing retreat is a gift you give yourself.You won’t regret it!
Love Your Book: 10 Days to Launch, Develop, and Gain Momentum on your Flash Novel, Novella, or Memoir February 10-21
You have a book inside you. It could be your first book or your seventh. It could be a novella-in-flash, a linked collection, a flash memoir, a flash novel or another sort of hybrid form. You love the short prose form, but you’re ready to think bigger–a book, but using the tools of the micro form.
When a story speaks to us–when it chooses us–we must listen.
Maybe you’ve already started. Maybe it’s still in your head. Either way, you suspect an untraditional book, using an untraditional structure, might need some unconventional methods. And you are right!
I call this the “flash book” in Going Short, and it is my personal sweet spot; I find the most fulfillment when I’m embracing both the narrow focus of the pieces themselves–the “bricks” of the story—as well as the long-term relationship of building a bigger structure with those bricks. I’ve written four flash novels as well as a linked collection, and since 2015, I’ve been leading groups of writers through the ups and downs of the book-writing process–from the giddy flush of a beginning all the way to the powerful, resonate ending.
Does this speak to you? If so, join me for a 10-day generative exploration and writing adventure, a “flash flood” with your book or book idea, and gain clarity, momentum, and enthusiasm on both your vision and your next creative steps.
Give yourself the (Valentine’s Day!) gift of 10 days this February to play, experiment, and understand your story more fully, so that you can do the necessary work of bringing it to life!
Questions? Feel free to drop me a line. I’d love to work with you and your book!
xo Nancy
P.S. This 10-day, asychronous workshop is also designed to lead into the full Flash Novel Mastermind, opening in March, for those who are ready to keep going. Want to do both? Drop me a line!
SPECIAL OFFER UNTIL FEBRUARY 1:
Save $100 on BOTH Love Your Book AND the Mastermind together!
Whether your book is fiction or creative non-fiction, if you are a dedicated writer, drawing on the skills of flash fiction, this is the long-term container of inspiration, motivation, community and support you have been wanting,
Nancy Stohlman 