- David Rank
- https://www.novelbookcamp.org/
- Founded by author David J. Rank, since its 2014 debut, the NIP has been held at the Cedar Valley UCCI, a 100-acre rural retreat center in southeast Wisconsin, about 35 miles northwest of Milwaukee and 95 miles from the Chicago area. https://www.ucci.org/cedar-valley/. The Novel-In-Progress Bookcamp & Writing Retreat offers two NIP Residential writing events, the All-Genre NIP in May and the Speculative Fiction NIP in August. Both offer concurrent, residential writing programs: The intensive NIP Bookcamp workshop is designed to aid writers with a book-length work-in-progress in any genre or creative nonfiction, providing classroom instruction, editing clinic, critique sessions, advice specific to your WIP from published novelists, agents, and editors, and information on today’s changing publishing industry during a week-long, writing-focused environment. The NIP Writing Retreat offers six days of personal writing time with opportunities to discuss writing issues with the Retreat Mentor (an award-winning novelist and editor), opportunities to attend certain writing- or publishing-related presentations, all NIP social activities, critiques, and chat with fellow writers and publishing professionals in a relaxed group environment. A second residential NIP Bookcamp & Writing Retreat designed specifically for writers of Speculative Fiction will be held August 1-7, 2021. For more information on either program, contact NIP Director Dave Rank, director@novelbookcamp.org or through the NIP's Facebook page. The Bookcamp workshop and the Writing Retreat are owned by the Novel-In-Progress Bookcamp & Writing Retreat, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit educational group, assisted by good friends the Chicago Writers Association, the Off Campus Writers' Workshop, and the Wisconsin Writers Association. Donations are welcomed.
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