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Workshops,  Retreats and Groups at the Reflections Inn

Reflections Inn is happy to celebrate over 25 years in business by offering retreats and workshops in accordance with our goals and visions.

CLEARWATER WRITERS 2023

We are thrilled to report that Clearwater Writers at Reflections Inn will continue for 2023. We hope if you have been with us before that you will plan to attend one of our sessions again this year. At this point, most of our attendees are returning alumni, which might give you insight as to the value of these retreats to the creative process. More and more of our attendees are finding publication, and the number of completed book manuscripts rises every year. 

For more about retreats and why they are helpful to the creative process, click here.

Our schedule for 2023 looks like this:

Spring retreat–March 3-7

The goal of our spring retreat is to shake out those winter cobwebs and to bring in the new season by reconnecting with our creative muse and jumpstarting any projects that have fallen victim to the winter doldrums. For more information, click here.



Writing from Ritual Workshop–April 28-30

This workshop is something of a deviation from our usual offerings in that the focus is on class work and generative writing. Plan to bring a notebook, and we will provide the pencils! For more information, click here.



Fall Residency–November 1-10

In 2021 we sponsored our very first 10-day residency to great results. What an amazing feeling to arrive at the Inn with 10 full days in front of us. Many of us napped away our first few days and then dug in for afternoons of generative writing sessions and rather astonishing levels of productivity. We loved it so much, that we decided to do it again! For more information, click here.

Private Manuscript Consult Retreat

If you have a book project that is giving you fits, a Private Manuscript Consult may be just the thing for you. In this case, you send the manuscript to our facilitator, Paula Coomer, and then meet with her at the Inn for 4 or 5 nights of focused feedback and editing advice. The record number of revision pages accomplished during a Private Manuscript Consult is set at 90! We dare you to come and break it! For more information, click here.

Reflections Inn is happy to celebrate over 25 years in business by offering retreats and workshops in accordance with our goals and visions.

CLEARWATER WRITERS 2023

We are thrilled to report that Clearwater Writers at Reflections Inn will continue for 2023. We hope if you have been with us before that you will plan to attend one of our sessions again this year. At this point, most of our attendees are returning alumni, which might give you insight as to the value of these retreats to the creative process. More and more of our attendees are finding publication, and the number of completed book manuscripts rises every year. 

For more about retreats and why they are helpful to the creative process, click here.

Our schedule for 2023 looks like this:

Spring retreat–March 3-7

The goal of our spring retreat is to shake out those winter cobwebs and to bring in the new season by reconnecting with our creative muse and jumpstarting any projects that have fallen victim to the winter doldrums. For more information, click here.



Writing from Ritual Workshop–April 28-30

This workshop is something of a deviation from our usual offerings in that the focus is on class work and generative writing. Plan to bring a notebook, and we will provide the pencils! For more information, click here.



Fall Residency–November 1-10

In 2021 we sponsored our very first 10-day residency to great results. What an amazing feeling to arrive at the Inn with 10 full days in front of us. Many of us napped away our first few days and then dug in for afternoons of generative writing sessions and rather astonishing levels of productivity. We loved it so much, that we decided to do it again! For more information, click here.

Private Manuscript Consult Retreat

If you have a book project that is giving you fits, a Private Manuscript Consult may be just the thing for you. In this case, you send the manuscript to our facilitator, Paula Coomer, and then meet with her at the Inn for 4 or 5 nights of focused feedback and editing advice. The record number of revision pages accomplished during a Private Manuscript Consult is set at 90! We dare you to come and break it! For more information, click here.

Writers! Retreat to a place where you can immerse yourselves in an envelope of quiet surrounded by pines and sky, with the Clearwater River just steps away. Join author and writing guide, Paula Coomer, and a small handful of writing cohorts in this space of solitude and reflection where responsibilities and stress slip away, making room for a clearer flow of ideas and words. Your room is a comfortable cocoon providing all the basic needs -- bed, desk, chair, your own privy and plenty of privacy - with a homey, cabin feel. Each window offers a head-turning connection to nature, each door an opening to fresh air and camaraderie. Stroll to the river, walk in the woods -free your psyche and your muse. Renew your energy and your love for writing. Retreat, relax, and hit the Refresh button!
Rebecca Rod
The Clearwater Women's Writing Retreat was, for me, a hallowed and life-changing experience. The nexus of calm, beautiful surroundings along the river, interwoven with clever, inspiring, creative women, and time --free, unstructured, abundant time-- gave a gift uncommon in our world today. Uncommon and extraordinary. The time to write in peace, while nurtured by a pristine natural environment and community of women allowed for a deep, steady flow of writing and insight. Meanwhile, the gatherings each night always brought me back to Earth and the joy of friends and creative support. I'm so grateful to Paula and Reflections Inn for this wonderful time, venue, and experience. Thank you...I'll be back as often as possible!
Rachel Clark
Paula Coomer, along with the collaboration of Ruth and Jim May (owners and proprietors of Reflections Inn) has created and made available the most desirable natural habitat for writers of all kind and genre. The completely equipped thematic rooms (including desk, coffee pots, mini-fridges, and beds that one slides into like butter) prompts solace as well as time to write your work, whatever that might be. The added freedom of walks along the wild Clearwater River where just across lies the Nez Perce Trail and millions of board feet of Ponderosa pine, Douglas fir, white fir, fiddle fern, huckleberry and thimbleberry. Every possible attribute that this special place brings is no less than what Paula Coomer offers through her open enthusiasm, support, love of the word, love of writing and love of each participant.
Katherine Sterling