Ontario

Ontario writing retreats put the workshop first. Weeks here are organised around manuscript sessions and the company of other writers, with the province's lakes and small towns as the backdrop rather than the point. Expect structured days, a close group and steady progress on the book you arrived with.

Ontario retreats sit apart from their British Columbia counterparts in one clear way: they are built around the workshop table rather than the wilderness. Sweetwater Writers Workshop is the listing here, and its model is the shared manuscript, read aloud and discussed while the writing continues. That suits a novelist midway through a draft who needs steady feedback more than solitude. This is the format the tag describes for a writing getaway in Ontario.