The Oxbow Writer’s Retreat Is Now Closed.
WRITE. RETREAT. REPEAT.
Check-in as a dreamer. Check-out as a writer.
This January 31-February 1, 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, Maggie Ginsberg, 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 Maggie Ginsberg
credit: Jolene Dombrowski
Maggie Ginsberg is a writer, editor and author in Wisconsin. Her debut novel, Still True, was published by the University of Wisconsin Press in September 2022 and won the 2023 WLA Literary Award for Fiction. It was the honorable mention selection for the 2022 Edna Ferber Fiction Book Award, and the 2026 inaugural pick for the statewide Wisconsin Reads digital book club. Still True was one of four finalists for the Chicago Writers Association’s 2023 Book of the Year, a 2023 Midwest Book Awards silver medal winner in the Literary/Contemporary/Historical Fiction category, and one of three finalists for the Women’s Fiction Writers Association’s STAR Award for Outstanding Debut. Maggie is also a nonfiction writer who published hundreds of articles throughout her career, earning numerous honors from the City Regional Magazine Association, the American Society of Journalists and Authors, the Milwaukee Press Club, and others. She is the former managing editor at Madison Magazine, and a contributing writer for the magazine since 2006. She works full-time as a writer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is currently at work on her second and third novels..
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