Residencies — Rosemary's House

2024 Retreats

Residential Workshop Retreats

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.

Marisa Renee Lee

**August 16-23**
Marisa Renee Lee is a called-upon grief advocate, entrepreneur, and bestselling author of the award-winning book *Grief is Love, Living with Loss*. A Former Deputy Director of Private Sector Engagement and a Senior Advisor on the Domestic Policy Council under President Obama, Lee regularly contributes to Elle, Vogue, The Atlantic, MSNBC, and CNN and serves as an expert for Ritual's well-being app.

Krishan Trotman

**August 16-23**
Krishan Trotman is the Vice-President and publisher of Legacy Lit. She joined Hachette Books in 2016. In 2020 she launched Legacy Lit, an imprint dedicated to books that give voice to issues, authors, and communities that have been marginalized, underserved, and overlooked.She is the co-author of the Queens of the Resistance series and she has been featured in New York Times, Essence Magazine, New York Magazine, Publisher’s Weekly, Salon, Shondaland, Cheddar TV, MSN, CSPAN, and more.

Jenny Zhang

**September 6-13**
Jenny Zhang is the author of the story collection *Sour Heart* and the poetry collection *My Baby First Birthday*. Her work appears in The New York Times, Poetry, Harpers, N+1, Best American Poetry, and other publications. She’s written television and film for A24, HBO, Netflix, Apple, and Amazon.

Adam Leipzig

**September 24- October 1**
Adam Leipzig is a filmmaker, producer, educator, and author. He has been a senior executive at Walt Disney Studios, the president of National Geographic Films, and has worked independently as a producer, distributor, or supervising executive on 38 films that have disrupted expectations, including *March of the Penguins*, *Honey, I Shrunk the Kids*, *Dead Poets Society*, *Titus*, *The Way Back* and *A Plastic Ocean*. Adam's movies have won or been nominated for 10 Academy Awards, 11 BAFTA Awards, 2 Golden Globes, 2 Emmys, 2 Directors Guild Awards, 4 Sundance Awards, and 4 Independent Spirit Awards.

Ben Taub

**September 24 - October 1**
Ben Taub is a staff writer at the New Yorker. In 2020, he won the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing, for his work on the lasting effects, on former detainees and guards, of American abuses in Guantánamo Bay. He has also received a National Magazine Award, two consecutive George Polk Awards, a Livingston Award, a Robert F. Kennedy Award, an Overseas Press Club Award, and other honors, and his work has

Heather Aimee O'Neill

**October 2-9**
Heather Aimee O’Neill has worked with hundreds of novelists, memoirists, short-story and essay writers in her roles as the assistant director of the Sackett Street Writers’ Workshop and as an independent editor and writing coach. She helps writers start, finish, polish, and find publication for their work. Many of her students and clients have gone on to publish with major publishers, including Viking, W.W. Norton, Harper Collins, Double Day, Flatiron Books, and Simon & Schuster, among others.

Individualized Tutorial Retreat

Our individualized tutorial retreat caters to writers seeking to dedicate most of their time to writing, guided by expert supervision. In collaboration with Sally Bayley, Rosemary’s House has crafted a week-long experience reminiscent of an Oxbridge supervision term. Participants will have the opportunity to submit up to 10,000 words of a larger work for detailed review, complemented by personalized mentorship sessions, ensuring focused and constructive advancement of their project.

Sally Bayley

**October 2-9**
Sally Bayley is a writer of fiction and non-fiction. She is particularly interested in the shifting relationship between genres. Girl with Dove (William Collins, 2018), is a literary coming of age story. It has been lauded as a completely original work that invents a new genre. Sally also hosts and performs the highly successful immersive podcast, A READING LIFE, A WRITING LIFE, which offers innovative forms of storytelling set to music and soundscapes as well as creative prompts for writers, readers and creatives. She is currently a Lecturer in English at Hertford College, Oxford.

Generative Storytelling Retreat

Rosemary’s House provides a sanctuary for those navigating grief, and we're proud to introduce our themed generator week, focusing this year on 'The Healer’s Journey.' Instead of the usual group workshops, this unique residency emphasizes generative writing exercises tailored to explore the nuances of healing. We welcome applicants drawn to narratives of recovery and restoration, or those keen to delve into the cathartic potential of writing. This retreat is designed for anyone, whether you're initiating a new project or seeking a restorative writing experience.