Kent Island Writers Retreat

Sponsored by ECPP & 45 Magazine Poetry Journal

ECPP and 45 Magazine Poetry have teamed up to offer writers an affordable 2-night writers’ weekend retreat complete with a generative workshop and an island excursion. Most meals are included. You will not have to worry about when and what to eat, laundry, and other at-home tasks that may distract your creativity. The goal is to provide an affordable and picturesque retreat for writers to create and/or work on an existing project.

Courtesy of Chesapeake Heritage & Visitors Center – https://www.kentnarrowsmd.com/visitors-center

When & Where

Dates: Thursday and Friday, November 12 & 13 (Second week of November)

Location: Holiday Inn 1020 Kent Narrows Rd, Grasonville, MD 21638, US (See photos below)

Transportation is excluded.

Complimentary coffee 24/7!

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Agenda

Thursday

  • Check-in
  • Welcome dinner reception
  • Retreat and write!

Friday

  • Breakfast
  • Generative Writing Workshop
  • Lunch
  • Kent Island Activity (TBD)
  • Dinner on your own 
  • Retreat and write!

Saturday

  • Breakfast
  • Check-out
  • Generative Writing Workshop. Reflection and feedback
  • Retreat from the retreat and enjoy the rest of your weekend!
Photo courtesy of Maryland Road Trips – https://marylandroadtrips.com/a-tale-of-two-marylands-how-the-chesapeake-bay-bridge-united-the-free-state/

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Deadline: October 5, 2026

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Instructor – Zorina Exie Frey, MFA – Poetry and Creative Non-Fiction

Zorina Exie Frey is a Pushcart Prize recipient holding a master’s degree in Poetry and Creative Nonfiction from Converse University, a bachelor’s degree in mass communications and web design certificate from Indiana University South Bend. She also holds a certificate in Literary Publishing from Emerson College. Zorina is published in Pushcart Prize XLVIII Best of the Small Press, The Journal of Poetry for Therapy, Introduction to Afrofuturism: A Mixtape in Black Literature & Arts, and swamp pink, among other publications. She has presented academic papers at The National Council of Black Studies, the International Conference on Poetry Studies, and the Furious Flower Conference. She is a Palm Beach Poetry Festival Langston Hughes Fellow, Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing Voices of Color Fellow, and Southern Vermont Writers’ Fellow. Her screenplay, Harley Quinn Origin, received an honorable mention at the Birmingham Film Festival in the United Kingdom, and she was a semi-finalist for the reality TV pilot, Americas Next Great Author. She currently teaches English Composition in Maryland.

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