JUNE 21-25, 2027
The Writers Week conference is Idyllwild Arts’ celebrated week-long experience for writers of all genres which includes workshop sessions, craft talks and readings by renowned guest authors, and the opportunity to build community with other writers. The experience culminates in a final reading and reception.
Idyllwild Arts has long been a gathering place for some of the world’s finest poets and writers who seek to be immersed in their craft amidst the majestic forest setting of the San Jacinto Mountains.
Andre Dubus III | Novelist and Memoirist
#1 New York Times Bestseller & National Book Award Finalist
Mark Doty | Poet and Memoirist
National Book Award Winner & T.S. Eliot Prize Winner
Kristen Millares Young | Novelist, Journalist, and Essayist
International Latino Book Award Finalist
Instructor: Douglas Manuel
This workshop will help you generate new material and craft points for conjuring effective, emotive, and not cringey or corny love poems.
Instructor: Ben Loory
This workshop’s writing prompts, directed readings, and lectures on various techniques will help you balance setting, character, plot, conflict, style, theme, and point-of-view to create unforgettable stories.
Instructor: Laurel Ollstein
This generative workshop offers a wide variety of techniques to free up the imagination and cultivate your own new script with unique characters and believable dialogue.
Instructor: Julia Ingalls
Explore how to elevate each of our works from promising drafts into compelling, widely read pieces through close readings of your original works and an analysis of published examples.
Celebrate the culmination of Writers Week with an evening of readings from the community that came together in the mountains …