Don’t miss this opportunity to hone your writing, whether it’s fiction, memoir or nonfiction, with best-selling, award-winning writer Charles Bock. Charles is a well known writer and a big-hearted, generous teacher ferociously on the side of your very best writing.

Join us May 16-18 for an intensive workshop and writing retreat at the Lancaster Art Vault in beautiful, historic downtown Lancaster PA.

Morning and afternoon meetings to workshop pieces and discuss craft at the Lancaster Art Vault. The rest of the time is free to write at your hotel, one of the many fantastic cafes and restaurants, the library across the street from the Vault, etc.

Accommodations and meal arrangements to be made separately, according to participants' preference: ask for recommendations. Lots of wonderful places right nearby but make reservations soon)

Optional extra: work with poet Dana Kinsey at her Ekphrasic workshop on Saturday at the Lancaster Art Vault gallery to hone descriptive and observational skills (additional cost). Also for an additional fee, individual meeting time with Charles is available over the weekend. Contact Kristin to arrange.

Sat May 17 public book reading and signing 7pm.

Write to Kristin kristin@splashingwaters.com with brief CV and writing sample. We'll be working with up to 15 pages of your project. Retreat fee is refundable until April 16. We strongly encourage participants to purchase travel insurance as no refunds will be issued after April 14. Thank you for your understanding.

Charles Bock  is the author of the new memoir, I WILL DO BETTER, as well as the novels Alice & Oliver and Beautiful Children,  which was a New York Times  bestseller and Notable Book, and which won the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Newsweek, People, The Believer, Vice, the  Los Angeles Times, Slate, Writer’s Digest,  and in numerous anthologies. He has received fellowships from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Yaddo, UCross, and the Vermont Studio Center.  Charles is a graduate of the Bennington Writing Seminars. He teaches fiction at NYU, and has taught in the MFA program at Columbia University and in workshops all over the world.  Charles lives with his daughter in New York City.