The Oxbow Writer’s Retreat Is Now Open!
WRITE. RETREAT. REPEAT.
Check-in as a dreamer. Check-out as a writer.
This January 16-17, 2026, join us for a weekend of invention, creation, revision, and workshop at the Oxbow Hotel in beautiful downtown Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Lodging, instruction, Saturday lunch, Sunday breakfast, coffee, tea, and snacks included. Open to all writers of all levels.
Our writer-in-residence, Nickolas Butler, will lead participants through writing exercises and be available for brief, individual conferences with all attendees. We’ll write all Saturday in anticipation for our evening reading in the Oxbow Gallery. No need to bring any previously written work! Just come with your paper, pen, laptop (though it’s less alliterative…) and passion.
Meet Nick Butler
Nickolas Butler was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, raised in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and educated at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Iowa Writer’s Workshop. His first novel was the internationally best-selling and prize-winning Shotgun Lovesongs, which has been optioned for film development and has been translated into over ten languages. Beneath the Bonfire, a collection of short stories, followed a year later. In 2017, he published The Hearts of Men which was short-listed for two of France’s most prestigious literary prizes even before its American publishing. In 2019, his fourth book, Little Faith was published to critical acclaim. Butler published Godspeed in 2021, a literary thriller set in Jackson Hole, Wyoming that was longlisted for the Reading the West Book Award. His latest, A Forty Year Kiss is a small-town love-story set in Chippewa Falls, WI.
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