Three days of reading, writing, and camaraderie on June 5, 6, &7th

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Festival 2026 features women who have written long fiction, short fiction, essays, plays, and memoirs. Register for some workshops today and be inspired by writers who have been there and done that. Discover something you may never have considered. Get valuable advice from an expert. Just do it!

Check out the workshops offered by our writers of long fiction, short fiction, essays, and memoirs.

Finding Your Ending with Blair Hurley

“Finding the right ending for your story might be the most difficult part of the writing process.”

Scene and Done: Understanding Story Through the Four Elements of Scene with Linda Lowen

“The answers lie in the pattern of the story, and understanding that pattern is best done through deconstruction.“

Marketing Your Book in a Crowded Marketplace with Stephanie Nikolopoulos

” . . . participants will discuss marketing strategies for self-published and traditionally published authors . . . “

Innovative structures for politically engaged fiction with Ellen Meeropol

“Participants will examine examples of inventive narrative structures in contemporary novels, including speculative elements, magical realism, and constellation and mosaic structures.“

What’s in a Name? with Jo Salas

“Names do a lot for our readers. They can evoke personal and cultural characteristics. They can signify ethnicity, gender, class, historical period, and geographical location.”

Writing Later in Life: Secrets and the Sacred – How and Whether to Tell with Stephanie Cotsirilos

“Participants will supportively consider the questions, then engage in writing exercises that explore craft options for approaching secrets and sacred things.”

Streets and Alleys: Journeying to Your Own Ten by Ten with Sandi Dollinger

. . . writers will use streets and alleys of their past and present to conjure up material for a short, one-act play called a ‘Ten by Ten’.”

Check out the poets who will join us to read and teach workshops in the previous post: Poets and Poetry

This project is made possible with funds from the Delaware County Arts Grants, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered in Delaware County by the Roxbury Arts Group.

The entire administrative staff of the Hobart Festival of Women Writers is volunteer. In addition to public arts funding, we have depended on the generosity of our friends, family, and neighbors – upstate, downstate, and around the world. If you’d like to support us, https://gofund.me/54e2851fb. We appreciate all donations.