REGISTER NOW: The R(ev)ise and Shine! Residency 2025

Following on our hugely successful inaugural residency at the Highlights Foundation in 2024, we are delighted to offer a bigger, longer, more exciting and enriching experience for 2025!

The residency is scheduled for five days and four nights, October 15-19th, in Vermont's beautiful Green Mountains during peak foliage season at .

Potash Hill was founded in 2021 on the gorgeous campus of the former Marlboro College. What better place for a residency than a real New England college campus in October? Enjoy crisp nights, sparkling days, and mountainsides stitched in blazing fall colors!

This residency is open to everyone. We welcome all writers to join us, from picture book to adult fiction, brand new visitors to the R(ev)ise and Shine! community and old friends alike. Whether you have published before or are just starting out, we will tailor your experience to meet you where you are in your writing journey.

You will be assigned two mentors who will work closely with you to determine your unique strengths and needs as a writer, as well as what’s working and what isn’t (yet!) in your current draft. Together we will help you design a plan of action for your next revision or for getting out of a stuck place. Come prepared to leap over hurdles that have been getting in your way

In addition, this year we are delighted to include both an agent and an editor as our special guests. (More information coming soon!)

Finally, we are excited to offer a $500 scholarship to a Black or Indigenous writer!

We value your time and your resources, and we know that it sometimes takes a big push, a concerted effort, to get a project well-launched or over the finish line.

This won’t be your spa retreat. Your write-between-sight-seeing retreat. Your hang-with-friends retreat—although our location has some of the tastiest food, loveliest hikes, and best opportunities to build community during meals and fun-filled evening activities.

This will be your “I want to roll-up-my-sleeves and write the best book I possibly can” retreat.

Cost: $1995.00*

Registration closes May 1, 2025 (or when full).

Only 20 places available!

$500* non-refundable deposit required to reserve your spot. (Balance of tuition of $1495.00* due by July 1, 2025 and payable via a private Eventbrite link that will be sent to you after May 1, 2025.)

Additional day's stay: $150.00

*All applicable Eventbrite fees and sales tax will be added at checkout.

Price includes: Private dorm room (with shared, dorm-style bathroom), delicious meals prepared by the Brattleboro Food Co-op, and a full schedule of programming.

Please be aware that accommodations at Potash Hill are what you might expect from a college campus: Single-occupancy dorm rooms (linens will be provided); shared, dorm-style bathrooms (assigned by gender); and limited handicap accessibility.

If you identify as non-binary and would like more information about the bathroom setup, please let us know.

The $500 registration fee is non-refundable (unless we cancel the residency). However, the balance of $1495.00 (plus add ons, including an extra day's stay or one-on-one consultations with our special guests) will be refundable up to 30 days prior to the event.

Please Note: Eventbrite fees are non-refundable.

Scholarship will be awarded as a tuition reimbursement of $500 after the July 1st registration deadline. When registering you will be prompted to indicate whether you wish to be considered for this scholarship.

When registering please let us know about any dietary restrictions or food allergies you have so that we may let our caterers know.

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If you have any questions, please reach out!

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