May 6 – 10, 2025
Monterey, California
Novel and Narrative Nonfiction Development and Writing
Before the Retreat and Beyond
Registration for the Monterey Writer Retreat is $1095.00, and the registration link found below. We process all of our payments via Paypal because it has proved itself over the years to be secure and trustworthy. This fee covers event tuition, one-on-one mentor meetings, workshops, pitch sessions, and *all* other writer-related activities associated with the retreat. If necessary and requested, a full refund will be provided up to 30 days before the retreat.
Like other Algonkian events, the Monterey Writer Retreat begins before you arrive and resumes upon departure. Why? Because writing and editing a novel or narrative nonfiction or memoir takes place on a long creative spectrum over time. It doesn’t begin and end with a single event. Our goal therefore is to prepare the aspiring author before the retreat, insofar as practical and possible, then continue afterwards with a 16-part Algonkian Novel Development and Editorial Program (includes additional post-event faculty consult).
Upon registration, writers will receive links and passwords to customized novel editorial and development forums at Algonkian Author Connect which address, among other novel writing elements, all the major novel conflict and complication issues, plot lines and points, theme seeding, prose narrative style and voice, dialogue, scene construction, as well as character arc-and-development nuances.
