Ink Retreats
Clarity, Community, and Creative Flow for Writers Online
Take a retreat from the daily grind.
Are you ready to take a sabbatical from writer’s block? To say “no” to what drains you and “yes” to your passion—writing?
Say no more…
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We all begin somewhere.
This may be your first draft of your first book.
Or the 17th draft of your 10th book.
Maybe you hope to self-publish a collection of short-stories.
Perhaps you’re under contract with a traditional publishing house.
Or maybe you have an idea that you just can’t shake and you’re finally ready to write it down.
Wherever you are on your journey, you’re not alone.
All that matters is: you started writing, and you’re not ready to stop.
But, sometimes, writers need a supportive space where they can ask their burning questions. Somewhere they can talk about their book without eyes glazing over. Where they feel excited about the potential of their writing instead of drowning in self-doubt.
Sometimes they need to break up the monotony of writing scene after scene with some fun and companionship.
Sometimes they need to break through a creative block—or five. Sometimes they just need to figure out what comes next in order to get their character (and themselves) moving towards the next phase.
If this sounds familiar, then…
Book Dragon Ink was made for you.
All of this, and more, can be found at one of our Ink Retreats.
Our accessible, online writing retreats are designed to help you show up, get words on a page, and enjoy the process.
Small Groups. Big Breakthroughs. Focused Support.
The Forge
—A Half-Day Retreat-Style Workshop—
Join us for three hours of craft, community, and inspiration! At the Forge, you’ll work alongside other writers, connect with book coaches, and enhance your craft.
Signature Ink Retreat
—A 1.5 Day Writing Retreat—
Our most loved event to date!
This retreat is sure to get you going and set you up to be obsessed with your book so that you can make the progress you crave.
“I’m a slow writer (not a bad thing!) and an even slower editor, and my current project is complex enough that a few short sprints once or twice a week, while nice, wasn’t enough.
Hours in [to our first retreat], I felt recharged, instead of let down.
With the structure we’d developed–writing sprints interspersed with moments of inspiration and learning, plus short bursts of connection-driven conversation–we got more actual writing done.”
—Sage Moreaux on the first Ink Retreat we hosted for ourselves ❤️
If your creative well is running dry…
If your plot or characters are lacking umph, if you are feeling lonely on your writing journey, or if you simply can’t seem to keep yourself on track with your writing goals...
“It was amazing and inspiring to devote two days to writing and with the support of encouraging, insightful coaches. Honestly, it felt good to be able to set aside typical responsibilities and focus on what makes me happy, especially with a group of others doing the same."
—Nienke
Upcoming Events
January
January 30th-31st 2026
On Friday the 30th, we begin at 9am PST and close at 12pm PST
On Saturday the 31st, we begin at 9am PST and close at 3pm PST
Here is a link to a time converter (or use one that you prefer) to find the times in your timezone.
Available spaces will be limited to 22 attendees so that we can maintain an intimate atmosphere.
A special gift for all January retreat attendees: An invitation to Write With Me, Zinzi Bree on Friday, January 30th, from 1 - 3 PM PST via Zoom! Follow up your Day One workshop/s and retreat prep with three writing sprints, plus community support, hosted by Zinzi. Loosen up your writing muscles before our full day of writing.
Register to Save Your Seat!
February
Registration is now closed.
February 13th
On Friday the 13th, we begin at 9am PST and close at 12pm PST
Here is a link to a time converter (or use one that you prefer) to find the times in your timezone.
A special gift for all February Forge attendees: An invitation to Write With Me, Zinzi Bree on Tuesday, February 24th, from 1 - 3 PM PST via Zoom! Follow up your workshop with three writing sprints, plus community support, hosted by Zinzi.
Join the waitlist to be informed of future events.
February
February 24th-25th 2026
On Tuesday the 24th, we begin at 8am PST and close at 11am PST
On Wednesday the 25th, we begin at 8am PST and close at 2pm PST
Here is a link to a time converter (or use one that you prefer) to find the times in your timezone.
Available spaces will be limited to 22 attendees so that we can maintain an intimate atmosphere.
A special gift for all February retreat attendees: An invitation to Write With Me, Zinzi Bree on Tuesday, February 24th, from 11am - 12:30pm PST via Zoom! Follow up your Day One workshop/s and retreat prep with three writing sprints, plus community support, hosted by Zinzi. Loosen up your writing muscles before our full day of writing.
Register to Save Your Seat!
Signature Ink Retreat
Day 1:
We host a 3-hour session to get you and your manuscript prepared for the following day so that you won’t end up stuck in the weeds.
This includes 2 workshops from Sage and Katherine created to do two or more of the following: help you identify areas of your book to work on, create a clear plan for your writing the following day and beyond, find the heart of your story and really get to know your book, help yourself understand where the story starts and where it ends, and make friends with your inner critic.
You’ll have a chance to introduce yourself and your manuscript to fellow retreat attendees, as well as time to make an informed plan for the following day of writing, through guidance by our knowledgable book coaches.
Finally—permission to put your manuscript first for a whole day.
One-and-a-half days of support and community to help you find clarity on your next steps and take action, so you end your day satisfied about where you are in your manuscript.
Get what you need all in one place: community, coaching, and creative flow.
$97 (usually), but until March, only $67
Register Here for January - Flight Plan
Register Here for February
Day 2:
This 6-hour day is full of inspiration, accountability, and most importantly, writing.
While your bum is not required to be in a seat, this is the day where we will help you kindle your motivational fire and stay obsessed with your story.
You’ll have access to book coaches with editorial expertise for all of your burning questions—from brainstorming plot hole fillers to implementing revisions—and for accountability should you want it.
We’ll also host a writer’s-block-busting game to spark your creativity! This has been helpful for reconnecting writers with their stories, figuring out a good plot twist, and developing a new character for readers to fall in love with.
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Currently scheduled Signature retreats:
January 30th-31st –Flight Plan–
Friday the 30th: 9am - 12pm PST
Saturday the 31st: 9am - 3pm PST
Link to time converter
Registration link
February 24th-25th
Tuesday the 24th: 8am - 11am PST
Wednesday the 25th: 8am - 2pm PST
Link to time converter
Registration link
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We have several retreat formats we are offering. Our Signature event is our 1.5 day event.
The Forge is our half-day session, included with our Signature retreat.
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The Forge is our half-day (3 hour) session designed to help writers prepare themselves, and their manuscript, for the following day of writing.
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Aww, we’re sorry to miss you this time! But please, keep checking back with us because we will have more dates in 2026 coming up very soon!
Sign up for our newsletter, Letters from the Lair, and our Ink Retreats waitlist to get updates as soon as we share them!
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You will receive a confirmation email in your inbox (check your spam or promotions tab if you don’t see it immediately)—please confirm, add us to your approved email list, and await our next email.
You get a link when you sign up and in your inbox to fill out a Google form. This is CRITICAL. Please fill it out, then sit back and await our emails in your inbox.
We will be sending out information such as “how to be prepared” via email.
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Event information, links, and other details will be sent to your inbox.
However, they will also be available in the Vault.
We highly recommend checking out the Vault before your event and keeping it open during your retreat for easy access to all of the goods we have in there for you!
The Vault is your event dashboard. We open it for a couple of days leading up to the retreat, and during the retreat, but it will close by the end of day after the event ends.Inside you will find direct links to our Zoom room for the day, information and details regarding your specific event, and other resources we want to share with you.
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Awesome! Click this link to go straight to our more in-depth Ink Retreats FAQs in case your question has already been answered.
However, if you don’t see the information you’re looking for, please reach out to us. Follow this link to our contact form to get your questions answered directly from one of the Book Dragons.
The Forge
—Ignite Your Creative Flow—
Get a jump-start when you need it to get your motivation back on track, have fun with our Inkwright community, ask your most burning writing and publishing questions, and learn some new things while you’re at it.
(Usually $47, but for February 2026, INCLUDED in the Writer’s Christmas Market Bundle)
Get the Bundle Here
The Forge is a half-day (3 hours) set aside just for you and your fellow writers to write, socialize (not required), and participate in 1-2 workshops covering various topics.
These workshops are oriented toward drafting and revisions stages, but anyone up through querying with their manuscript will learn something useful—read our incredible reviews for evidence!
Currently scheduled Forge events:
February 13th
Friday the 13th: 9am - 12pm PST
Link to time converter
Plus: additional writing sprints with WWMZB
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Aww, we’re sorry to miss you this time! But please, keep checking back with us because we will have more dates in 2026 coming up very soon!
Sign up for our newsletter, Letters from the Lair, and our Ink Retreats waitlist to get updates as soon as we share them!
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You will receive a confirmation email in your inbox (check your spam or promotions tab if you don’t see it immediately)—please confirm, add us to your approved email list, and await our next email.
You get a link when you sign up and in your inbox to fill out a Google form. This is CRITICAL. Please fill it out, then sit back and await our emails in your inbox.
We will be sending out information such as “how to be prepared” via email.
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Event information, links, and other details will be sent to your inbox.
However, they will also be available in the Vault.
We highly recommend checking out the Vault before your event and keeping it open during your retreat for easy access to all of the goods we have in there for you!
The Vault is your event dashboard. We open it for a couple of days leading up to the retreat, and during the retreat, but it will close by the end of day after the event ends.Inside you will find direct links to our Zoom room for the day, information and details regarding your specific event, and other resources we want to share with you.
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Awesome! Click this link to go straight to our more in-depth Ink Retreats FAQs in case your question has already been answered.
However, if you don’t see the information you’re looking for, please reach out to us. Follow this link to our contact form to get your questions answered directly from one of the Book Dragons.
What's included at our Ink Retreats?
1-2 workshops designed to help you with one or more of the following:
embrace your process,
befriend your inner critic,
and get to know your book using various elements or building blocks of story
Book-coaches available for questions and advice as-needed
Story Seed game to invigorate creativity
Dedicated, structured, writing time for getting your words on the page
Breaks - both silent and chatty options are available
Permission to say "no" to anything other than writing
RSVP Here!
Settle into your favorite cozy spot at home, at a BnB, or wherever suits your creativity best, and join us for an elevated writing experience.
We’ll gather online for structured writing sprints, creative break-times, optional book coaching, and community connection with your fellow Inkwrights.
Be ready to write your heart out; however, we encourage you to worry less about how many words you get on the page, and instead focus on finding a flow that works right for you. No matter where you are in your process, we want you to end the day feeling better about your book than when you started.
What you need to work on is whatever serves your story best. First draft, revisions, world-building, plotting, brainstorming—all counts as progress on your manuscript.
Whilst Book Dragon Ink is oriented towards fantasy, we are not a fantasy exclusive retreat. If our vibe, coaches, and additional activities sound like a fit for you, then please join us! All genres are welcome.
The coaches on board for the 2025 events, Sage Moreaux and Katherine Suzette, specialize in early drafts, revisions, and character driven plots, so bring your manuscript, and your questions to get help as you need it, and make the progress you've been dreaming of.
On Day 2 of our Signature Ink Retreat, Zinzi Bree will lead an optional Story Seed game for those who need a break, want to spark their creative brain, or just want some fun inspiration and a chance to recharge.
“This retreat is a treat — serious pun intended. These three excellent facilitators work in great harmony to bring their unique approach to the participants. The result is immersive, productive, and, most importantly, tangible. This is a great opportunity to break the monotony of the lonely journey, learn great tools to write with joy and clarity, ask any craft questions, and meet your fellow writers in a supportive setting.”
— Tali
How do we know what you need?
Book Dragon Ink is founded by writers who are also professionals in the editing + publishing industry. We figured out what WE needed, tried it out on our community, then grew and revised our process into something truly marvelous.
YOU are the cornerstone that we have built ourselves around.
To learn more about your hosts and founders, follow this link.
We’re pretty convinced that at least a few of these things will apply to you:
You are writing a book or have a clear idea for a book and need an excuse to start it
You want others to take your book seriously
You are ready to take yourself, and your manuscript, seriously
You write on and off—when inspiration strikes in the middle of the night or alongside your morning coffee—but never seem to make substantial progress
You feel guilty when you take time away from “life” to write
You just need a reasonable excuse to say “no” to distractions and “yes” to your book
You might be working on your first draft of your twentieth book, or first short story draft ever, or even revisions for he third book in your series
Same! We (Sage, Zinzi, and Katherine—AKA, the Book Dragons) all realized in 2024 that in order for us to write more, we needed to give ourselves permission to ignore other tasks and responsibilities for a time, or the book would never be written. We also needed a like-minded community—other “dragons” obsessed with books (both reading and writing them)—to help us stay on track.
An hour a day just wasn’t cutting it. We would spend half that time just getting started, then be off to “life.” That didn’t make those hours less valuable, but we couldn’t keep our minds in our stories long enough to make truly transformational progress. So we said, “Hey, what if we took a day or two and really immersed ourselves in our stories, together?”
By early 2025, we were designing online writing retreats just for ourselves.
Our key desires were to :
Save money on editorial and coaching support
Stay in our personal creative zones (at home)
Have time to chat and give our brains, and bodies, timely breaks
Be able to claim what felt like a legitimate excuse in order to not see to distracting “life” tasks during our sacred writing time
Find our flow and stay in the zone, if not completely obsessed for a whole day - or two
Write, write, write…
Those desires boiled down to:
Accessibile
Affordable
Fun
Motivating
Professional advice on-demand
So here we are, all of the above, and striving to be what we needed, but for you.
Access these retreats from your at-home writing lair, or, take a step further and attend the retreat from your favorite sanctuary at a hotel, BnB, or even local library.
And you’re helping Book Dragon Ink build a community that will support writers just like you for years to come!
Choose your retreat dates here!
“I was mentally energized and excited about my book that evening. It was a long day—but satisfying.
Before committing myself to a retreat with Sage, I wasn’t sure I’d ever make enough time to make real progress on my book. Most of the one-hour sprints I join are just enough for me to get stuck in a research loop.
Our first retreat changed that for me. I saw substantial progress in my book and I finally felt like a real writer.”
—Katherine Suzette on our first Ink Retreat that we hosted for ourselves ❤️
Nitty-gritty details:
All updates, information, and links will be sent out via email!
Once you sign up, go find our welcome email from dragons@bookdragonink (check spam if you don't see it pretty quickly) and save it to your approved contact list.
We will send a form that you MUST fill out to guarantee your spot.
You must be 18 or older to attend.
You will need: reliable internet, a Zoom-capable device (computer, tablet), and whatever you use to write (laptop, Word/other writing program, etc.).
All times listed are PST / PDT unless otherwise noted. Here is a link to a time converter for you to find the time of our events in your preferred time zone.
You do not have to be writing fantasy to join our retreats or to join in the mini-workshops or activities.
For the Signature Ink Retreat: the half-day session (also called “The Forge”) is 3 hours and full days are 6 hours of structured time (with breaks!), designed to give you focused writing without burnout.
Whilst we would love to have you for the full experience, life happens—we get it. If you need to leave and come back, or leave early, just send us a private message to let us know all is well, then do what you need to do.
However, access to all vault content will be restricted from all participants at the end of the event regardless of whether you were present for the whole event or only part of it.
What happens in the lair, stays in the lair. Unless we get explicit permission to record for our own training purposes, there will be no recordings. Participants are not allowed to record any portion of the event for any reason. Bottom line: you are safe here to write, share, and grow.
We may ask to take a group photo for our social media, but you are welcome to opt out. No photos or screenshots taken by participants may be taken, used, or shared publicly.
We do not offer refunds, however in relevant circumstances may be able to devise an agreeable solution to participants. Please read our policy regarding refunds and returns at this link.
Ink Retreat FAQs
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No. All resources located in the Vault (your event dashboard) will be unavailable when the Vault is locked again.
Some resources will be sent via email before the event and we welcome you to use those for your own writing processes; however they cannot be shared, duplicated, or otherwise misused. See our Terms and Conditions for further information.
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What a thoughtful gift!
Contact us through this form or by using the email dragons@bookdragonink.com and we'll set up a gift registration.
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Absolutely! Our community celebrates writers at every stage—whether this is your first manuscript or your twentieth. We're here to support your story, wherever you are in the journey.
If you’re a quirky human, please join us! We love our fellow oddballs. -
Nope. Progress looks different for everyone. Whether you write 5,000 words or spend the day solving a plot problem—both count. We're here to support your story, not judge your output.
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Yes! As long as you have solid internet, you can join from home, a hotel, a coffee shop, anywhere that works for your writing.
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Zinzi's signature creative exercise using a game designed by Story Engine Deck. She uses it to help participants break through creative blocks and spark unexpected inspiration. Writers consistently report breakthrough moments—it's one of our favorite parts!
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Yes! Our coaches and developmental editors are available throughout the day for one-on-one support. Plus, our intentionally small size means you're never just another face in the crowd.
If you have a question already, that you know you want to ask our editor-on-call for your retreat, please fill out the form you will receive via email after registration. This not only confirms your participation, but there is a space for you to ask your question so that we can be sure to answer it for you!
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That's exactly what we're here for! Access our coaches during the retreat, try Zinzi's Story Seed game for creative breakthroughs, or chat with fellow writers who might have fresh perspectives.
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Not at all.
We create space for connection, but you control your level of engagement. Many introverted writers love the parallel writing experience—together but focused on individual work.
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Check out our Ink Retreats Prep Guide and Packing List sent to your email after registration, or find it in the Vault, after you sign up—we cover everything from physical space setup to mental preparation.
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Please do! Keep snacks and drinks nearby. We build in breaks, and you're always welcome to step away briefly if you need to.
We need you!
We need feedback to help us iron out the kinks, testimonials to help us tell others about our events, and attendance to help us remember that we’re not alone out here.
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