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For more information, email us at rpaf@riverpretty.org. https://www.riverprettywritersretreat.org/about-1 daily 0.75 2021-08-24 https://www.riverprettywritersretreat.org/scholarships daily 0.75 2021-08-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61251212b485b26fe4406c33/1629826678994-AW91H0TA9MOYNL7AYTY0/RP1.jpg Scholarships - Scholarship and Conference Submissions Please note: You must be fully registered for the Retreat before your submission will be considered. Please read the following guidelines for your respective genre before submitting. All submissions must be received at least one month prior to the start of the retreat to be considered for the scholarship or for a one-one-one conference. Poetry Scholarships: Submit one poem. One-on-One Conference: Submit no more than 5 poems. Prose Scholarships: Submit 5 - 10 pages, double-spaced, of your manuscript. One-on-One Conference: Submit 5 - 10 pages, double-spaced, of your manuscript. GUIDELINES: We only accept email submissions. Please put in the subject line of the email the genre of the submission and also whether it is intended for the Scholarship or for a One-on-One Conference (for example: Poetry Scholarship, or, Poetry Conference). Please send all submissions to: rpaf@riverpretty.org https://www.riverprettywritersretreat.org/contact-us daily 0.75 2021-08-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61251212b485b26fe4406c33/ecf39a9e-b930-4fe3-9bfd-ce11c85b0fb3/MAZZ2396.JPG Contact Us - Contact Us Send us an email to rpaf@riverpretty.org or visit us on Facebook or Instagram and send us a message! https://www.riverprettywritersretreat.org/faculty-leaders daily 0.75 2023-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61251212b485b26fe4406c33/1629830398846-U4OVR2OLMJFUAZD92RRZ/lee.jpg Faculty Leaders - Lee Busby (poetry) Lee received his M.F.A. in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts in Montpelier, VT, and has spent his writing career working alongside such award-winning writers as Terrance Hayes, Marie Howe, David Wojahn and Richard Jackson. He has published poems in The Gingko Tree Review, Connotation Press, Numero Cinq, Moon City Review, Elder Mountain and scissors & spackle, among others. His chapbook, Wild Strawberries, is available from Finishing Line Press. Lee's first full-length collection, 5th Generation Immigrant, was published in the summer of 2014 by ELJ Publications. Lee is the co-author, along with poet Ian Bodkin, of the book Fingertip Scripture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61251212b485b26fe4406c33/1629830418311-0E5OXHGOL01SCSB4DACU/chaz2.jpg Faculty Leaders - Chaz Miller (poetry) Chaz has an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. He has worked with such poets as Charles Harper Webb, Mary Ruefle, and William Olsen, among others. His work has appeared in Moon City Review, Ozarks Watch, Bayou Magazine, and The Southern Review. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61251212b485b26fe4406c33/1629830465253-U5O8A0F86G4FT0M4MXSL/rich.jpeg Faculty Leaders - Rich Farrell (fiction) Richard Farrell is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and the MFA in Writing Program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. His work, including fiction, memoir, essays, interviews and book reviews, has appeared or is forthcoming in The Forge, Potomac Review, Hunger Mountain, New Plains Review, upstreet, Descant, Contrary, Newfound, Numéro Cinq, and elsewhere. He teaches creative writing at Grossmont College and at San Diego Writers, Ink. His first novel, The Falling Woman, was published by Algonquin Books in 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61251212b485b26fe4406c33/1629827046494-Y2Z76RMD88AV007W1P4C/steve.jpg Faculty Leaders - Steve Rucker (creative non-fiction) Steve received his M.F.A in Writing at the Vermont College of Fine Arts and his M.A. in Writing from Missouri State University, where he taught creative writing. He has published his work in Numro Cinq, Elder Mountain, and Upstreet ("A Terminal Chord" was listed as a notable essay in The Best American Essays of 2013 anthology), and his essay regarding the life and work of Raymond Carver appears in Research Guide to American Literature: Contemporary Literature 1970 Present. Steve writes from a well-lit front room in Springfield, Missouri. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61251212b485b26fe4406c33/1629835505862-GP0OZA98S5PYHK7S2O0W/jen.jpg Faculty Leaders - Jennifer Murvin (fiction) Jennifer Murvin’s chapbook SHE SAYS will be released in 2023 by Small Harbor Publishing. Her stories, essays, and graphic narrative have appeared in DIAGRAM, Southampton Review, River Styx, Catamaran Literary Reader, CutBank, Indiana Review, Post Road, American Short Fiction, The Sun, Mid-American Review, The Cincinnati Review, Bellingham Review, Phoebe, Baltimore Review, and other journals. Jen owns the indie bookstore Pagination Bookshop and is an Assistant Professor of English at Missouri State University. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon. Find more at https://www.jennifermurvin.com/. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61251212b485b26fe4406c33/1629835529374-HUK6LV6O9B0B1PPYQB8M/katch.jpg Faculty Leaders - Katch Campbell (poetry) Katch Campbell is a connector. With a masters degree in Science and an MFA in poetry. She creates metaphors for her patients and others about the world around us. Her work is an inquiry on the atrocities we commit consciously and unconsciously against each other and the universe. Katch serves as Treasurer of the board and is a permanent faculty member at the River Pretty Writing Retreat, a bi-annual workshop in the Ozarks. Near home she is host for the Madd Poets Society’s Intersections series, “Where Poetry and Society Meet.” She has co-led immersive poetry trips to Slovenia and Italy, and used to edit for ZoMag.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61251212b485b26fe4406c33/928b9863-fc66-4a37-8b8a-bcb13cdebe60/MAZZ7535b.JPG Faculty Leaders - Brandon Funk (poetry) Brandon holds an MA in English from Missouri State University, where he studied under poet Michael Burns and completed his thesis collection of poetry and fiction, The Fair Wind. Rooted in the Ozarks, his writing explores landscape, form, and place. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61251212b485b26fe4406c33/74edb82c-e0cb-475d-9850-1378acbb1b29/MAZZ4478b.jpg Faculty Leaders https://www.riverprettywritersretreat.org/lodging-information daily 0.75 2021-08-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61251212b485b26fe4406c33/ecddeb4d-ad2b-40db-be34-91c811130211/MAZZ2405.JPG Lodging Information - Lodging Information For anyone wishing to stay on site at Dawt Mill, please contact them directly: http://www.dawtmill.com/ Contact Info: 888-884-3298 or 417-284-3540 Dawt Mill P.O. Box 1090 Tecumseh, MO 65760 Website: www.dawtmill.com Email: dawtmill@dawtmill.com If Dawt Mill is full, please consider staying at [Rocky Top Campground & Cabins], which is just a couple miles down the road. This will be the more tranquil place to stay if you're looking for solitude and quiet - meaning it has no restaurant or bar & grill, so there's less foot traffic coming through the resort. The set up is similar to Dawt Mill in that they offer cabins and camp sites, and best of all, they also offer disc golf! Their cabins run anywhere from $45-55 plus tax/night and most cabins can sleep up to 4 people. http://www.rocky-top-campground.com/index.html Contact Info: 417-679-0149 Rocky Top Campground & Cabins HC 3 Box 3030 Tecumseh, MO 65760 Website: http://www.rocky-top-campground.com/index.html Email: deasterd@hotmail.com https://www.riverprettywritersretreat.org/register-for-spring-2026 daily 0.75 2026-03-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61251212b485b26fe4406c33/1630007175838-TNQHS9GB509CWD1Z7OYA/RP2.jpg Register for Spring 2026 - Register for Fall 2026 Click here to register for our Spring 2026 Retreat, May 1-2 2026. (Friday - Saturday evening at 11:30 PM) Please note that you must arrange lodging separate from registering for the retreat. Find Lodging Information here — You must **call Dawt Mill directly in order to book your room or cabin for River Pretty (and at a reduced rate)! Phone for Dawt Mill: 417-284-3540 https://www.riverprettywritersretreat.org/take-action daily 0.75 2025-05-09