Bird Omens: A Winter Writing Retreat
With Lydia Wylie-Kellermann and Lacey Hunter
January 29 - 31, 2027
Join us for a cozy weekend in the mountains to focus on your writing life. Trust that there will be roaring fires, snowy trails, hot chocolate, candlelight, good food, and lots of quiet. We will offer some brief prompts and rituals throughout the days to nudge the imagination and then offer spacious hours for your own writing practice.
This retreat is for word-lovers, storytellers, and writers in the most expansive sense of the word. Bring a project you are working on or blank pages that have been calling to you.
Come sink into this land, follow the bird tracks in the snow, and receive the birds’ omens calling from the bare trees. Let the cardinals and chickadees and juncos welcome you to this forest for rest, nourishment, and writing.
About the Leaders
Lydia Wylie-Kellermann
Lydia Wylie-Kellermann is a writer, editor, activist, and mother. She is the Executive Director of Kirkridge Retreat and Study Center. She is the author of This Sweet Earth: Walking with Our Children in the Age of Climate Collapse (Broadleaf, 2024). She was previously the editor of Geez magazine exploring the intersection of activism, art, and spirit. […]
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Lacey Hunter
lacey hunter (they/she) is a minister of formation, queer poet, and monastic-at-heart who is interested in how daily rhythms and practices of hospitality can open up new realms of simplicity and abundance, wonder and tenderness, and shape our lives for the work of Beloved-community building. Their belief in the possibilities of worlds beyond oppressive systems […]
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