Our Next Writers Retreat
May 17 - 20, 2024
Breckenridge, CO
Join us for an unparalleled screenwriting retreat, including:
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
One-on-one sessions offered for up to two months following workshop at additional cost
$2,500 per person:
includes meals and accommodations
Alexa Junge
Our Breckenridge Mentors:
Dawn Comer Jefferson
Judging Amy, South of Nowhere
Peter Blauner
Edgar Award-winning novelist, TV Writer: Blue Bloods, Law & Order: SVU
Ken LaZebnik
A Prairie Home Companion, Army Wives, Providence
Emmy Award winner, Friends, United States of Tara, Lilo & Stitch 2
Craft Talks
Pam Houston
on dialogue
Award winning author of novels, short stories and essays, Cowboys are My Weakness, Deep Creek, Contents May Have Shifted
Krista Gano
on pitching
Former Executive Director of the Groundlings, now running The Working Artist Group.
Photos From Previous Retreats
Testimonials
“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
Retreat Schedule
Thursday
(Arrive Breckenridge before 6pm, if possible)
6:00 pm WELCOME DINNER
7:30 pm Welcome Talk – Betsy and Liz
Friday
8:30am Breakfast
9:00am Group Meditation
9:30am Writers Room Groups – Workshop all writers’ work
12:30pm LUNCH and relax
1:30pm Writers Room Groups
4:00pm Hike/Walk to Town/Yoga
6:00pm Craft Talk and Dinner
Saturday
8:30am Breakfast
9:00am Group Meditation
9:30am Writers Room Groups – Workshop all writers’ work
12:30pm LUNCH and relax
1:30pm Writers Room Groups
4:00pm Hike/Walk to Town/Yoga
6:00 PM Craft Talk and Dinner
Sunday
8:30am Breakfast
9:00am Group Meditation
9:30am Writers Room Groups – Workshop all writers’ work
12:30pm LUNCH and relax
1:30pm Writers Room Groups
3:30pm BREAK to work on Pitchathon pitches/revisions/walk
4:30pm PITCH-A-THON – Pitch, Watch, Cheer, Give Notes
6:30pm Dinner and Chill
Monday
8:30am Breakfast
9:00am Group Meditation
9:30am Writers Room Groups – Workshop all writers’ work
12:30PM Depart
"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.” One never feels like awaking day after day. In fact, given the smallest excuse, one will not work at all. The rest is nonsense. 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