Calling for Applications: Writing Retreat in Greece!
Rosemary's House
March 18, 2024
Calling Writers: Apply for a 2024 Writing Retreat at Rosemary's House in Greece!
Rosemary's House is pleased to be offering the Loft community priority application review for our inspiring writing retreats in Greece. In your application, include the affiliate code TLxRH.
Dive into a transformative writing workshop experience amidst the ancient beauty of Greece, where the echoes of the past ignite your creativity. Rosemary’s House beckons you to join a select group of 9 writers from across the globe in a place once dubbed "phlegra," the land of fire.
Whether you're crafting a novel, memoir, play, collection of poems, collection of essays, journalistic project, screenplay, or exploring innovative genre-bending pursuits, seize the opportunity to elevate your work alongside a community of exceptional peers. Our mentors this year include a best-selling memoirist, a former Disney & National Geographic Executive, a Pulitzer-prize-winning journalist, and a VP of a major publishing vertical, to name a few.
Applications are now open on a rolling basis, but spaces are limited. For questions and support, sign up for our free virtual information session on April 1st or contact our admissions team at [email protected]. To stay updated, follow our Instagram @byrosemarys.
We can't wait to read your work and look forward to being a home for your creativity!
Read more about some of our incredible 2024 mentors below. We’ll be announcing a TV Pilot Retreat, Individualized Retreat, and Write to Heal Retreat in the coming week, so if those are of interest, don’t hesitate to reach out to our admissions office at [email protected]
August 16th-24th: Mentor Marisa Renee Lee
Marisa Renee Lee is a called-upon grief advocate, entrepreneur, and bestselling author of the award-winning book Grief is Love, Living with Loss. In addition to her work in the grief space, Lee is a Former Deputy Director of Private Sector Engagement and a Senior Advisor on the Domestic Policy Council under President Obama and the Founder and CEO of Beacon Advisors, a mission-driven consulting firm focused on strategic planning and partnerships, change management, and coaching and advisory services for leaders. Lee regularly contributes to Elle, Vogue, The Atlantic, MSNBC, and CNN and serves as an expert for Ritual's well-being app. She is a graduate of Harvard College.
August 16th-24th: Mentor Krishan Trotman
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.
September 6-13th: Mentor Jenny Zhang
Jenny Zhang is the author of the story collection Sour Heart and the poetry collection My Baby First Birthday. She is the recipient of the Pen/Bingham Award for Debut Fiction, the LA Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, and an O. Henry award. 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. She holds degrees from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and Stanford University.
September 24- October 1: Mentor Adam Leipzig
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.
September 24- October 1: Mentor Ben Taub
Ben Taub is a staff writer at the New Yorker. He has written for the magazine about jihadism, crime, conflict, climate change, exploration, and human rights, on four continents and at sea. 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 appeared in recent editions of “The Best American Magazine Writing” and “The Best American Travel Writing.” Taub also received the ASME Next Award for Journalists Under 30, and was named one of Forbes's 30 Under 30 in Media.
