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Sitka Writers Retreat

May 29 - June 2, 2025
featuring Amy Butcher & Brendan Jones

Join award-winning authors Amy Butcher and Brendan Jones for an intimate writing retreat in the picturesque island town of Sitka, Alaska to deepen your writing while exploring and experiencing a culturally rich community set against one of the world's last remaining pristine temperate rainforests.
Limited spots available.

We offer a 20% discount for members of 49 Writers.

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Upcoming Events

  • Weekly Writing Circle
    Weekly Writing Circle
    Mon, Mar 10
    Zoom
    Join Tongass Mist Writing's Ruth Underhill EVERY MONDAY. One RSVP = same link ea. week! 11am- Noon Alaska Standard Time to for generative writing prompts, write for about 40 minutes together and then spend the last few minutes to share any realizations about your writing process. Welcome!
  • C’est La Vie: A Diary & Life Writing Series, Follow Me Here
    C’est La Vie: A Diary & Life Writing Series, Follow Me Here
    10 days to the event
    Tue, May 06
    Zoom!
    4 weeks in May. We keep our own diaries, sharing selected entries within a supportive and community-focused space. Each week we focus on different aspects of the diary habit.
  • Journaling Toward Story, A Generative Writing Hour with Heather Lende
    Journaling Toward Story, A Generative Writing Hour with Heather Lende
    12 days to the event
    Thu, May 08
    On Zoom! (Link Will Be Emailed To You)
    We are pleased to offer this class with Heather Lende for writers all across Alaska and beyond! Heather will share excerpts from her essays and books both old and new and chat in real time with writers about the writer's life. Heather's website: https://www.heatherlende.com/
  • The Writing Elastic
    The Writing Elastic
    13 days to the event
    Fri, May 09
    Zoom!
    This life is elastic, impossibly elastic," writes the poet Maggie Smith. So what does it look like to write through, or in spite of, darkness? We'll take a look at the advice of some writers contemplating that right now. 2 hrs, Generative.
  • Write Poetry in Poetics of Sensorium with Basmah Sakrani
    Write Poetry in Poetics of Sensorium with Basmah Sakrani
    17 days to the event
    Tue, May 13
    Zoom
    Join us for this second opportunity to explore sensory creative writing where we dive deep into the five senses and learn how to use them to craft immersive scenes and unforgettable stories.
  • C’est La Vie: A Diary & Life Writing Series , See
    C’est La Vie: A Diary & Life Writing Series , See
    17 days to the event
    Tue, May 13
    Zoom!
    4 weeks in May. We keep our own diaries, sharing selected entries within a supportive and community-focused space. Each week we focus on different aspects of the diary habit.
  • Write Now; Focus on Publication, Week 1 of 2 (2)
    Write Now; Focus on Publication, Week 1 of 2 (2)
    21 days to the event
    Sat, May 17
    Zoom
    Join Ruth Underhill in May for this generative and publishing-focused class for two Saturdays each month. Gain confidence and tools to publish! We will spend Week 1 writing & revising. We will spend Week 2 submitting our writing together to various journals, publications and contests!
  • C’est La Vie: A Diary & Life Writing Series, This Is Not Fiction
    C’est La Vie: A Diary & Life Writing Series, This Is Not Fiction
    24 days to the event
    Tue, May 20
    Zoom!
    4 weeks in May. We keep our own diaries, sharing selected entries within a supportive and community-focused space. Each week we focus on different aspects of the diary habit.
  • Write Now; Focus on Publication, Week 2 of 2
    Write Now; Focus on Publication, Week 2 of 2
    28 days to the event
    Sat, May 24
    Zoom
    Join Ruth Underhill this May, for this generative and publishing-focused class for two Saturdays each month. Gain confidence and tools to publish! We will spend Week 1 writing & revising. We will spend Week 2 submitting our writing together to various journals, publications and contests!
  • C’est La Vie: A Diary & Life Writing Series, The Three P's
    C’est La Vie: A Diary & Life Writing Series, The Three P's
    31 days to the event
    Tue, May 27
    Zoom!
    4 weeks in May. We keep our own diaries, sharing selected entries within a supportive and community-focused space. Each week we focus on different aspects of the diary habit.
  • Sitka Writers Retreat with Amy Butcher and Brendan Jones
    Sitka Writers Retreat with Amy Butcher and Brendan Jones
    33 days to the event
    Thu, May 29
    Sitka
    Beloved Sitka and award-winning authors Brendan Jones https://www.brendanisaacjones.com/ and Amy Butcher https://www.amyebutcher.com/ partner with Tongass Mist Writing in this fantastic wilderness and creative writing retreat! Our main retreat website is www.amyebutcher.com/sitkawritersretreat
  • Tinkering, Micro Revisions With Heather Lende
    Tinkering, Micro Revisions With Heather Lende
    33 days to the event
    Thu, May 29
    On Zoom! (Link Will Be Emailed To You)
    We are pleased to offer this micro revision class with Heather Lende for writers all across Alaska and beyond! This class will include perspectives on the process of revision on the small scale in your writing. It can be tough to know where to start! Heather's website: https://www.heatherlende.com/
  • Free and Open To The Public: Sitka Writers Retreat Reading
    Free and Open To The Public: Sitka Writers Retreat Reading
    36 days to the event
    Sun, Jun 01
    Sitka
    On the final night of the all-inclusive Sitka Writers Retreat May 29th- June 2nd we open our doors to share our writing with our Sitka Community. Please come listen to excerpts of our headlining authors' writing and the writing of our retreat attendees as well as other Sitka writers.
  • Writing Sex and Intimacy
    Writing Sex and Intimacy
    46 days to the event
    Wed, Jun 11
    Zoom!
    Writing Intimacy and Sex: This multi-genre class will explore writing about sex and intimacy. In what ways can we embrace the sensuality of our prose, poetry. Can we plunge into the depths of our psyches and stories by writing about topics like sex, sexuality, bodies and intimacy?
  • Build a Solid House, Macro Revision with Heather Lende
    Build a Solid House, Macro Revision with Heather Lende
    47 days to the event
    Thu, Jun 12
    On Zoom! (Link Will Be Emailed To You)
    We are pleased to offer this macro revision class with Heather Lende for writers across Alaska and beyond! This class will include perspectives on the process of large scale revisions in your writing. What happens when big pieces shift? Heather's website: https://www.heatherlende.com/
  • The Stories We Tell Ourselves: Fiction about Global Shifts
    The Stories We Tell Ourselves: Fiction about Global Shifts
    49 days to the event
    Sat, Jun 14
    Covid Classroom: Zoom!
    Five years into the pandemic, what can we learn from the fiction written about COVID?
  • Write Now; Focus on Publication, Week 1 of 2
    Write Now; Focus on Publication, Week 1 of 2
    56 days to the event
    Sat, Jun 21
    Zoom
    Join Ruth Underhill in June for this generative and publishing-focused class for two Saturdays each month. Gain confidence and tools to publish! We will spend Week 1 writing & revising. We will spend Week 2 submitting our writing together to various journals, publications and contests!
  • Manuscript Revision with Heather Lende, A Group Conversation
    Manuscript Revision with Heather Lende, A Group Conversation
    61 days to the event
    Thu, Jun 26
    Zoom
    This Manuscript Revision opportunity with Heather Lende follows her Micro and Macro Revision Classes with Tongass Mist Writing. Space is limited to 12 writers who attended the micro and macro revision classes with Heather Lende. Writing Samples will be shared with group.
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Molly Barari Ed. D, M.F.A., Rapid City, SD 

As a writer and writing instructor, I have attended numerous online workshops to practice my craft. The workshops I've taken with Tongass Mist are the best of the best - with quality content, insightful discussions, and ample time for writing and reflection. I appreciate that a variety of genres are covered, from memoir to fiction to poetry, and the workshops offer unique takes on these genres. The Tongass Mist writing workshops are the workshops I most prefer to take, and they are the ones I recommend to my students. 
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