Come out to an all day writing retreat at Strawflower Farm. Hosted by Louise Bierig graduate of the University of Iowa‘s Undergraduate Writers’ Workshop. Louise leads the Lansdowne Writers Workshop as well as a workshop for Wallingford Swarthmore Community Classes. In 2021 she became an Amhurst Writers and Artists affiliate, certified to lead workshops in the AWA method. Her short stories and essays have been published in Short Edition, Peregrine Journal, Philadelphia Stories, and the Philadelphia Inquirer. In summer 2021, her short story the Anderson family Moto was published in Toho Publishing’s The Best Short Stories of Philadelphia 2021. Her fiction has won the following awards; 2004; finalist in novel writing contest sponsored by suspect thoughts press; 1997; finalist for the Heekin group foundation writers and education fund; 1992; first prize in Mercyhurst college short fiction contest.

Arrive to the gazebo at 8:30am for breakfast, tea, coffee, and a chance…