Santa Fe Retreat


May 17-20, 2024

Bring us your new idea, your draft of a novel or script. We’ll help you hone your work, find the emotional truth in your characters and get your story to the next level.

What’s Included:

  • 3 intensive days of workshopping your project

  • Small group mentor-led writers rooms

  • Daily Craft Talks

  • Organic, healthy, chef prepared meals

  • Nature hikes, walks to town

  • Post-retreat two-hour follow-up session with mentor

  • One-on-one sessions offered for up to two months following workshop at additional cost

$2,250 per person:
includes meals and accommodations

To pay with an installment plan, please contact betsy@calltoadventure.media or liz@calltoadventure.media

Our Breckenridge Mentors:


Peter Blauner

Edgar Award-winning novelist, TV Writer: Blue Bloods, Law & Order: SVU, former journalist for New York Magazine.

Dawn Comer Jefferson

Judging Amy, South of Nowhere, Non-fiction author and essayist. Teaches screenwriting at USC and the Stephens College MFA Film and Television program.

Alexa Junge

Emmy-nominated tv and film writer, Bosch, Friends, Grace & Frankie. Playwright, “This American Life” contributor

Ken LaZebnik

A Prairie Home Companion, Touched By An Angel. Playwright, Director of the LIU M.F.A. for Television

Craft Talks


Krista Gano

Former Executive Director of the Groundlings, Founder of The Working Artist Group

Pam Houston

Award winning author of novels, short stories and essays, Cowboys are My Weakness, Deep Creek, Contents May Have Shifted

Writers Retreat Scholarship


Interested in the Writers Retreat but worried about the finances? Call To Adventure Media and SeriesFest are offering a scholarship to ensure cost is not a barrier to career development.

Apply for the scholarship by August 30, 2023.

Photos From Previous Retreats

Testimonial

“To say that I’m grateful for the experience would be an understatement. It reaffirmed that yes, participating in a writer’s room is something that I want to do and, in many ways, it’s something that I’ve been working towards my entire life.”

-Sean Joseph Salazar Jourdan

"In writing, habit seems to be a much stronger force than either willpower or inspiration. Consequently there must be some little quality of fierceness until the habit pattern of a certain number of words is established. There is no possibility, in me at least, of saying, “I’ll do it if I feel like it…” Perhaps there are people who can work that way, but I cannot. I must get my words down every day whether they are any good or not."

-John Steinbeck