Writers and artists, refill your creative well this fall. Step away from your desk and practice fresh ways of looking, thinking, and recording landscapes both internal and external via a creative exploration of McGovern Lake at Hermann Park.

WRITE WILD is a day-long creativity retreat focused on generating new ideas and work. In four distinct workshop sessions, each led by a different facilitator, you'll experiment outside your usual form, genre, and style, allowing you to peek around the corner of your usual creative process to discover what lies beyond.

Just as the environments we inhabit are always transforming, so is our writing and our creative practice—which means they are worth reexamining frequently. On the hunt for inspiration, let yourself be swept up in the joy of exploring the hallways of what once was the old Harris Moving and Storage Building and what has since transformed into a lively hive of working artists.

WRITE WILD is a day-long creative writing retreat focused on generating new ideas and work. In four 90-minute sessions, each led by a different facilitator, you'll experiment outside your usual form, genre, and style, allowing you to peek around the corner of your usual creative process to discover what lies beyond.

Allegra Hyde will leads us through an immersive walking exploration of Buffalo Bayou Park that will combine generative exercises with a close study of our slow moving waterway.

WRITE WILD is a day-long creative writing retreat focused on generating new ideas and work. In four 90-minute sessions, each led by a different facilitator, you'll experiment outside your usual form, genre, and style, allowing you to peek around the corner of your usual creative process to discover what lies beyond. 

Let go of your inner censor and the internalized rules that are holding you back from telling the stories that urgently want to be told.  Starting with a creative exploration of the Menil Campus and leading into an afternoon of discovering and creating new ways of telling your stories, we invite you to follow your curiosity down the path to more freedom and authenticity in your storytelling. 

Writer and experienced Coptic-stitch bookbinder Layla Al-Bedawi will guide you through the process of conceptualizing and crafting a journal that is inspired by your own creative work and what you intend to use it for.