Leave all your worries behind and spend an entire week focused just on you and your writing. Steal away to lush, beautiful environments, where you'll connect with a group of amazing scholars and together, learn to overcome the thoughts and feelings that undermine your productivity, steal your peace of mind, and rob you of the pleasures of your work.
We work with pre-tenure as well as senior scholars, to help you face your fears and transform your writing time into a haven that motivates and nourishes you. So you can write more. And worry less. |
InkWell's unique writing retreats weave together four key elements that do more than give you time to write: they teach you to make the most of that time by identifying, facing, and freeing yourself from writing anxiety.
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96%Learned strategies that strongly increased productivity.
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94%Felt significantly more motivated to write.
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96%Felt more confident about their
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"Composed helped me find ways to build writing into my daily life in a way that is pleasurable and rewarding. I won't have to bully or coerce myself into the chair anymore."
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The Composed writing retreat is for any scholar who wants to transform their experience of writing from one of fear, to one of trust and power. Our ideal participants fall into one of these categories:
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Junior Scholars Who Want to Start Out RightJunior faculty members, post-docs, and graduate students who want to begin their academic career with a healthy, sustainable approach to writing are ideal for Composed.
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Senior Academics Seeking
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Administrators Looking to Maximize Their TimeComposed is an excellent fit for administrators who want to get the most progress and satisfaction from the small windows of writing time they have available.
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Bellwether Farm Retreat Center
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About Bellwether FarmOur retreat center is situated on a gorgeous 137 acre working farm that offers scholars the perfect combination of tranquility and activity. It’s surrounded on three sides by the Vermilion River and includes sustainable and organic farmland, woodlands, meadows, hiking trails and a five-acre pond. Aside from the desk in your retreat room, our workshop and writing spaces include airy, light-filled meeting rooms, porches, pavilions, and an open air barn. When you’re not writing, you’ll enjoy 3.5 miles of hiking trails, daily yoga, and wandering the grounds to peep the goats, chickens, ponies, cows, and bees. All a mere 45 minutes away from Cleveland International Airport, in Wakeman, OH.
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Michelle Boyd, PhDMichelle Boyd, PhD is an award-winning writer, former tenured professor, and the founder of InkWell Academic Writing Retreats. She spent the first part of her career studying the political significance of black racial identity, and won a Best Book Award from the American Political Science Association for her first book Jim Crow Nostalgia: Reconstructing Race in Bronzeville.
Since leaving faculty life, she's helped hundreds of scholars move past their anxieties, reconnect with their writing, and develop a calmer, more confident, more productive writing practice. Her second book, Becoming the Writer You Already Are, was featured in Inside Higher Ed. |
Learn more about Michelle's approach to coaching.
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Learn how you can get funding for Composed.
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