Name: Three writers hold a weeklong retreat on Beaver Island, 2011
Start: 2011-09
End: 2011-09
Location: Beaver Island

Event

Date: 2011-09
Kind: Occurrence
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: communityeducationrecreationarts
Within: Beaver Island

Three writers from Indiana spent a week on Beaver Island in September 2011 for a writing retreat. They worked on a space opera, a women’s-fiction novel, and a fantasy story, set a goal of ten pages per day, and used the island’s landscape, museums, shops, and conversations as part of the experience.

Sources

Beaver Beacon, October 2011, "Three Writers on Retreat."
Reports three Indiana writers spending a week on Beaver Island working on a space opera, a women's-fiction novel, and a fantasy story, with a ten-pages-a-day goal and island excursions. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
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Beaver Beacon, October 2011, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held October issue scan confirms the corresponding OCR report.
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Beaver Island Archive, “Three writers hold a weeklong retreat on Beaver Island, 2011”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-three-writers-retreat-2011/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, October 2011, "Three Writers on Retreat." (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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