Writing Retreat and Scholarships:

Ossabaw Island Writers’ Retreat Announces: 2024 Spring Writer’s Retreat with Full Scholarships
Available.

(SAVANNAH, GA)— Ossabaw Island Writers’ Retreat announces the opening of applications for
our Spring Writer’s Retreat, March 8-13th 2024, featuring workshops and seminars led by nationally
recognized faculty:

Beth Ann Fennelly: A 2020 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow, Poet Laureate of Mississippi
from 2016-202,1 and teaches in the MFA Program at the University of Mississippi. She’s won grants and awards from the N.E.A., the United States Artists, a Pushcart, and a Fulbright to Brazil. Fennelly has published three books of poetry and three of prose; most recently, Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs (W.W. Norton), a Goodreaders Favorite and an Atlanta Journal Constitution Best Book.

Tom Franklin: He is the author of Poachers: Stories, and three novels, Hell at the Breech, Smonk, and
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter, which won the LA Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller, the UK's
Golden Dagger Award for Best Novel, and the Willie Morris Prize for Southern Fiction. His most recent book is The Tilted World, co-written with his wife, Beth Ann Fennelly. Franklin teaches at Ole Miss.

Juliana Gray: Her poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, The Cincinnati Review, The Hopkins
Review, and elsewhere; her humor essays appear irregularly in McSweeney's Internet Tendency. An
Alabama native, she lives in western New York and teaches at Alfred University.

Tony Morris: Much of his fiction and poetry and reflects the region’s influence on his imagination. He is an editor at Southern Poetry Review and the Director of Ossabaw Island Writers’ Retreat and author of the novel, Deep River Blues. In addition to his fiction, Morris has published four books of poetry, including his most recent Pulling at a Thread.

A great opportunity to recharge the creative energies on one of the most beautiful barrier islands of the
Atlantic. The pristine coastal marshes of Ossabaw Island serves as the backdrop and inspiration for craft seminars and guided history and ecology tours. The setting is “idyllic, haunting, and largely undisturbed by time,” says writer E.C. Miller. “It’s the perfect location for clearing out those mental cobwebs and communing with your most creative self.”

Register Now: Participation is limited to fifteen writers. Tuition covers room and board, all meals, craft seminars, readings, and ferried transportation to the island. One-on-one manuscript consultations with nationally recognized faculty are also part of the package.

New this year: We are offering three full tuition scholarships, one in each genre (poetry, fiction, and
creative non-fiction). Discounts available for a limited number of university students, military personnel, teachers, and Sisters in Crime members. 

Application deadline February 1st, 2024.

Application fee: $50.00 

For more information and online application, visit www.ossabawwritersretreat.org.

Information press only:
Dr. Tony Morris, PhD
704-477-8870

write@ossabawwritersretreat.org

Or
Danelle Lejeune
912-414-3025

danellelejeune@gmail.com