Hedgebrook

Hedgebrook's artist-in-residence program accepts up to 80 writers each year, who spend two to four weeks in residence working on their diverse writing projects.

[3] The retreat is a working farm, offering organic produce for the writers, and communal dinners each night prepared by in-house chefs.

[4] Hedgebrook's global community of alumnae, more than 2,000 writers from all over the world, include celebrated author Gloria Steinem, poets Naomi Shihab Nye, Suheir Hammad, playwrights Dael Orlandersmith, Ellen McLaughlin, and Eve Ensler, novelists Nassim Assefi, Bernardine Evaristo, Sarah Ladipo Manyika, Mary Gordon, Ruth Ozeki, Elizabeth George, and Sarah Waters, memoirists Honor Moore and Carolyn Forché, non-fiction writers Pramila Jayapal and Holly Morris, and solo performer Sarah Jones.

The week-long writing workshops, offered in a variety of genres (fiction, memoir, playwriting, screenwriting, poetry), focus on different aspects of the writer's craft and process.

The festival begins with a "pre-retreat" weekend, in which the playwrights have the opportunity to get to know one another, hear each other’s plays read aloud, and share responses with an intimate group of theatre professionals in a relaxed, convivial atmosphere.