March 2026
At Castle Farms, Fort Smith, Arkansas:
The 2026 year’s theme: Luau Style!
Click below to watch an overview video of the 2025 event:
Join us for the 2026 Regional Retreat in Arkansas! Registration fee includes shared accommodations, all creative activities, and all food and beverages for the weekend! The early registration fee is only $197.
See more details about the retreat below!
Once you register, please return to this page and submit payment below.
What is the retreat like?
The Cat Writers’ Association will host the third annual CWA 2025 Southwest Regional Creativity Retreat in March 2026 at Castle Farm, Fort Smith, Arkansas. This budget-friendly feline-inspired retreat brings together not only writers, but also cat-inspired creatives of all mediums and genres and all experience levels, including: writers, photographers, artists, bloggers, broadcasters, and songwriters. Creatives who share a passion for all things feline.
Connect with fellow cat enthusiasts, share your work, and get inspired. This group is a space to discuss writing tips, share your latest projects, and network with other creative individuals.
Surrounded by nature, Castle Farms has 1½ accessible acres and a number of fun, fantasy environments, attendees to the CWA two –and-a-half-day retreat can lose themselves in physically, emotionally and spiritually. Attendees will have a weekend to unplug from our hectic world and tune into their personal muse. In the company of like-minded spirits, the retreat will provide inspiration and a place to shatter that cursed writer’s block that plagues us all. Reconnect with other like-minded spirits and nourishing their creativity.
Castle Farm is a self-sufficient farm owned by the medium-size book publisher, Yard Dog Press. The acreage is filled with several large vegetable and flower gardens, and free-range goats, chickens and other animals. Adjoining property next to the meeting room holds a palomino horse and some donkeys who believe they are entitled to carrots from CF guests.
Attendees will have a chance to support each other’s work, share <problems>, brainstorm, read each other’s writing and offer feedback, and visit (something we never have a chance to do at our jam pack conferences.)
We hope to see you there!