2026 Residencies

At Rosemary’s House, we offer different types of retreat programming, designed to meet the needs of our creative community. While our residential workshop retreat is our signature programming, we have expanded our offering to additionally include a creativity retreat week. Regardless of which week you attend, all of our retreats are centered around three questions:  

  • What makes a story compelling and sellable?

  • Which stories reflect our times?

  • How can you capture your unique story?

Residential Workshops

Rosemary's House offers signature residential workshop retreats, where each day unfolds with a group workshop dedicated to exploring the nuances of storytelling. Participants will benefit from personalized feedback, receiving insights from both the mentor-in-residence and their fellow writers. We advocate for writers to select a cohort led by a mentor whose expertise aligns with their individual craft and professional aspirations. Our workshops are intentionally multi-genre, bringing together writers with diverse strengths and backgrounds. This eclectic mix enriches the collective understanding of story architecture, allowing writers to cross-pollinate ideas and overcome narrative challenges.

  • Multi-Genre Workshops: Engage in daily sessions led by successful mentors to enrich your understanding across various writing genres.

  • Personalized Feedback: Receive in-depth mentor and peer feedback on a 3500 word sample and project outlines, tailored to your unique style and goals.

  • Dedicated Workshop Time: Enjoy a dedicated session to deeply engage with your work and receive focused group discussion and critique.

  • Project Crafting Guidance: Obtain expert advice on crafting your project and planning your professional trajectory, including insights into publishing and marketing strategies.

  • Storytelling Expansion: Learn new techniques for developing compelling characters, vivid settings, and mastering narrative structure and dialogue.

The Creativity Retreat

As an extension of our Generative Workshop series, previously led by mentors Chloe Dulce Louveouzo and Glory Edim, Rosemary’s House is excited to offer a new format for 2026, the Creativity Retreat. While this retreat will center our three questions around storytelling, it will be formatted around a series of seminars designed to explore your creative process, potential, and reservoir. Guided by participants’ goals and point of process, the retreat will help you unlock your creativity and reinvigorate your next project. 

Some of the themes we will explore include:

  • An Exclusive Reading From A Creative Compass: Explore methods to unblock, nurture, and re-charge creativity through exclusive workshop prompts.

  • Ways Into Creativity: Learn how to use visual cues, such as Tarot cards, to fuel inspiration and your process.

  • Ways Into Writing: Explore and understand different entry points to writing, through discussions and exercises tailored toward narrative positioning and the honing of voice. 

  • Nurture  Your Practice: Learn to foster a sustainable creative practice that you can bring into your daily life. 

  • Enhancing Storytelling Skills: Participate in daily workshops that help you arrive at the best ways to expand your ease with a range of storytelling devices, ensuring that your project’s form best serves the story.  

We recommend this retreat for writers at all stages of their process looking to connect inward rather than seek critical feedback. This retreat is a good fit for you if you’re looking to recenter your creative practice and develop tools to feed a sustainable life in storytelling. Writers of all genres, formats, and project stages are welcome to apply.