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Delaware Division of the Arts

2022 Retreat Summary Page

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2022 Writers Retreat

Designed to encourage reflection and creativity, the 2022 Delaware Writers Retreat provided writers with a collaborative atmosphere to write, revise, and recharge. It was a meaningful opportunity to make progress on their work while drawing inspiration from a community of peers.

More About the Retreat

Fourteen Delaware writers participated in the Retreat at the Virden Center in Lewes from November 3-6, 2022. Tara Campbell and Chet’la Sebree led workshops where participants critiqued each other’s work, gave craft talks on flash fiction and exit strategies, and led generative writing exercises.

2022 Workshop Leaders

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Chet’la Sebree

Poetry Facilitator

Chet’la Sebree is the author of Field Study, winner of the 2020 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, and Mistress, winner of the 2018 New Issues Prize and nominated for an NAACP Image Award. She earned an MFA in Creative Writing from American University and has been awarded fellowships from Baldwin for the Arts, the Delaware Division of the Arts, Hedgebrook, MacDowell, the Stadler Center, the Vermont Studio Center, and Yaddo. Her poetry and prose have been published in journals and magazines including The Yale Review, The New Republic, Kenyon Review, and Guernica. Currently, she is working on her debut essay collection as she directs the Stadler Center for Poetry & Literary Arts and teaches in the Creative Writing program at Bucknell University.

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Tara Campbell

Prose Facilitator

Tara Campbell is a writer, teacher, Kimbilio Fellow, fiction co-editor at Barrelhouse, and graduate of American University’s MFA in Creative Writing. She’s the recipient of the following awards from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities: the 2016 Larry Neal Writers’ Award in Adult Fiction, the 2016 Mayor’s Arts Award for Outstanding New Artist, and Arts and Humanities Fellowships for 2018 – 2022. Campbell’s publication credits include SmokeLong Quarterly, Masters Review, Wigleaf, Jellyfish Review, Booth, Strange Horizons, and CRAFT Literary. She’s the author of a novel and four multi-genre collections including her newest, Cabinet of Wrath: A Doll Collection. She teaches fiction with American University, Johns Hopkins University’s Advanced Academic Programs, the Writer’s Center, Politics and Prose, Catapult, and the National Gallery of Art’s Virtual Studio.