Event
The Write Together Retreat with Allie Rowbottom and Tea Hacic-Vlahovic
with Write or Die
November 4 • 11:00 AM (EST) - 3:30 PM (EST)
Dates
November 4 • 11:00 AM (EST) - 3:30 PM (EST)
Duration
4 hours
Location
Online
Price
US$39
About the event
Join us for a day of writing during our monthly virtual retreat! You will have the opportunity to write alongside other writers in real time and learn from authors in the industry. This will be a time of encouragement and a chance to make real progress!
Details
Whether you’re just thinking about an idea, just starting a project or are deep into revisions, this is for you. We will focus on the outer work of prioritizing our writing and the inner work of pushing past fear and resistance.
The retreat will include an hour-long session with authors Allie Rowbottom and Tea Hacic-Vlahovic, who will talk about the book writing process: where to begin, how to know when you are done, and most importantly, how to keep going.
Wherever you are in your process, we welcome you with open arms. You don’t have to write alone. Your art matters. Time to deepen your love for your own work and set it into motion.
Let’s write together.
Additional info
This retreat includes:
• 2 one-hour live writing sessions over Zoom
• Breaks in between sessions
• 1 hour-long author chat with Allie Rowbottom and Tea Hacic-Vlahovic, which will include encouragement for writers and a lesson/writing prompt
• Resources and author notes sent via email at the end of the retreat
• Generative writing prompts before each session to get you started
Retreat Schedule
11:00 AM: Welcome with Kailey and Tamar
11:15 -12:15 PM: First writing session
12:15 -12:30 PM: Break
12:30 - 1:30 PM: Second writing session
1:30 -2:00 PM: Break
2:00-3:00 PM: Allie Rowbottom and Tea Hacic-Vlahovic’s author chat
3:00-3:15 PM: Wrap up and conversation with Kailey and Tamar
Featured authors
Allie Rowbottom
Allie Rowbottom is the author of the novel Aesthetica, published in November 2022 by Soho Press and named a best book of 2022 by Glamour Magazine, NPR and Vanity Fair. Allie's memoir, Jell-O Girls, was a 2018 New York Times Editors' Choice. Her essays and short fiction can be found in Elle, Vanity Fair, Flaunt, Dazed, Alta, New York Tyrant, The Drunken Canal, Forever Mag and elsewhere. She holds a PhD in literature from the University of Houston and lives in Los Angeles.
Tea Hacic-Vlahovic
Tea Hacic-Vlahovic is a Croatian-American writer based in LA. She's the author of LIFE OF THE PARTY (Clash 2020) and A CIGARETTE LIT BACKWARDS (Abrams 2022). Previously a columnist for Vice and Wired Italy and contributing editor of Wonderland Magazine, she's currently the society columnist for Spike Art Magazine.
Hosted by
Kailey Brennan DelloRusso
Kailey is a writer from Plymouth, MA. She is the founder and editor-in-chief of Write or Die Magazine and is currently working on her first novel. Visit her newsletter, In the Weeds, or find her on Instagram @kaileydellorusso and Twitter @kaileydello
Tamar Mekredijian
Tamar is the fiction editor of Write or Die Magazine. Her work appears at Literary Mama and Coffee and Crumbs. She is working on her first novel, which was long-listed for The Master's Review 2021 Novel Excerpt Contest. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two children.