2024 Retreat Summary Page
2024 Writers Retreat
Designed to encourage reflection and creativity, the 2024 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
Twenty Delaware writers participated in the Retreat at the Virden Center in Lewes from November 7-10, 2024. Catherine Pierce and Tope Folarin led workshops where participants critiqued each other’s work, gave craft talks on flash fiction and exit strategies, and led generative writing exercises.
2024 Workshop Leaders
Catherine Pierce
Poetry Facilitator
Catherine Pierce is the Poet Laureate of Mississippi and the author of four books of poems: Danger Days (2020), The Tornado Is the World (2016), The Girls of Peculiar (2012), and Famous Last Words (2008), all from Saturnalia Books. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, The Best American Poetry, the Pushcart Prize anthology, The Nation, American Poetry Review, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Academy of American Poets, she teaches at Mississippi State University.
Tope Folarin
Prose Facilitator
Tope Folarin is a Nigerian-American writer based in Washington DC. He serves as Director of the Institute for Policy Studies and the Lannan Visiting Lecturer in Creative Writing at Georgetown University. He is the recipient of the Caine Prize for African Writing, the Whiting Award for Fiction, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, among other awards. His debut novel, A Particular Kind of Black Man, was published by Simon & Schuster.