International Writer’s Retreat 2025

Featuring Award Winning Author, Journalist & Rosemont College Faculty Jennifer Steil

The MFA in Creative Writing program at Rosemont College will offer its annual International Writers’ Retreat inJanuary 2025. This year we will be traveling toParis and Arles, France. MFA in Creative Writing and MA in Publishing graduate credit, non-credit, and companion prices are available.Airfare is not included.

Pre-trip meeting on Friday, December 10 at 6 PM Lawrence Hall Faculty Lounge
Advanced Reservation $500 Deposit Due: October 1, 2025
Balance Due: November 15, 2024 (After November 15, program fee is not refundable.)

To sign up, you will need:

• Emergency contact
• Copy of passport
• Copy of Insurance

This registration form is for non credit students and companions only! *STUDENTS WHO WANT TO TAKE THE TRIP FOR CREDIT MUST REGISTER FOR CRW 7185 OR CRW 7186 WINTER WRITING SEMINAR or GPP 7185 International Publishing Seminar ON THE iWAY. To explore more non credit courses, please visit the Rosemont College Writer's Studio for Master Class and Workshop opportunities.

Jennifer Steil is an award-winning author and journalist. Her third book, the novel Exile Music, was released by Viking in May 2020 and won the Grand Prize in the 2020 Eyelands Book Awards and was named a finalist for the 2021 Lambda Literary Lesbian Fiction Award. Her previous novel, The Ambassador’s Wife, published by Doubleday in 2015, won the 2013 William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition Best Novel award and the 2016 Phillip McMath Post Publication Book Award. It was shortlisted for both the Bisexual Book Award and the Lascaux Novel Award, and has received considerable critical acclaim. Jennifer’s first book, The Woman Who Fell From the Sky (Broadway Books, 2010), a memoir about her tenure as editor of the Yemen Observer newspaper in Sana’a, received praise from The New York Times, Newsweek, and the Sydney Morning Herald. Jennifer earned her PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Birmingham, England, an MS in Journalism from Columbia University, an MFA in Creative Writing/Fiction from Sarah Lawrence College, and a BA in Theatre from Oberlin College.

Carla “C.J.” Spataro is the program director of the MFA in Creative Writing and MA in Publishing programs at Rosemont College. She is an award-winning short story writer and a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grant winner. Her short fiction has appeared in Sequestrum, Exacting Clam, Phantom Drift, December Magazine, Italian Americana, Iron Horse Literary Review, Pithead Chapel, Permafrost, The Baltimore Review,Painted Bride Quarterly, and others. Poetry has appeared in Ovunque Siamo. Her work has also been anthologized in Another Breath, Forgotten Philadelphia, Extraordinary Gifts, 50 Over 50and Taboos & Transgressions. Her debut novel, More Strange Than True (Sagging Meniscus) was published in June 2024. Learn more at www.cjspataro.com

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