March 7-9, 2025
At Castle Farms, Fort Smith, Arkansas, sponsored by:
Tickets on sale now
This year’s theme: Luau Style!
Registration fee includes shared accommodations, all creative activities, and all food and beverages for the weekend! See more details below.
Early bird registration is $135. CWA members can register early and save $24. (Contact Dusty Rainbolt at productreview@pobox.com for the discount code for CWA members.) Don’t miss out! Discount ends November 30, 2024.
Standard registration after December 1 (for both members and nonmembers) $159.
All registration closes February 28, 2025 or when available rooms sell out. On-site availability is limited 16 so sign up early.
If rooms are sold out or you would prefer to stay at nearby accommodations, you only pay $75 for food and activities. Lodging is not included.
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What is the retreat like? More Details Below:
The Cat Writers’ Association will host the second annual CWA 2025 Southwest Regional Creativity Retreat on June 7-9, 2025 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.)
