Fall Writers and Readers Retreat 2024 

October 9 -11

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Overview

A waterfall in north Georgia
Good Faith Media invites you to join us for a time of finding inspiration and sharing ideas at our Fall 2024 Writers and Readers Retreat at St. Francis Springs Retreat Center.

Set in a quiet, wooded, picturesque setting, the Fall Readers and Writers Retreat is for anyone who loves to read or write.  Our host venue, St. Francis Springs Retreat Center, is within about a 45-minute drive of either Raleigh Durham International Airport or Greensboro’s Piedmont Triad International Airport.

The retreat is open to everyone who loves words: published authors, aspiring authors, book lovers or those seeking to enhance their writing skills.

Featuring Clyde Edgerton – Clyde will lead three sessions, including readings and stories, music, “the craft of writing,” and a Q & A time.  Good Faith Media staff members Mitch Randall, Tony Cartledge, Starlette Thomas and Cally Chisholm will lead additional sessions. The Retreat begins October 9 at 2:30pm, and concludes October 11 following lunch.

Conference Fees and Lodging

St. Francis Springs

477 Grogan Rd Stoneville, NC  27048

DOUBLE OCCUPANCY – $475 PER PERSON

SINGLE OCCUPANCY – $600

Registration includes:

  • 2 nights lodging
  • Meals – Dinner on Wednesday through lunch on Friday
  • All programming and entertainment

Not included – Transportation to and from retreat center.

 

St. Francis Springs Retreat Center

Retreat Leaders

Clyde Edgerton

Clyde Edgerton

Clyde Edgerton is the author of ten novels, a book of advice, a memoir, short stories, and essays. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and five of his novels have been New York Times Notable Books. He is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers and is the Thomas S. Kenan III Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at UNC Wilmington. Edgerton’s short stories and essays have been published in New York Times Magazine, Best American Short Stories, Southern Review, Oxford American, Garden & Gun and other publications. Edgerton is a musician and has performed with musicians including Jim Watson, Mike Craver, Jack King, and Matt Kendrick.  http://clydeedgerton.com/

Tony Cartledge

Tony Cartledge

Tony is contributing editor and weekly curriculum writer for Nurturing Faith Journal and Bible Studies, and as a weekly columnist for GFM. He has taught at Campbell University Divinity School since 2007, authoring both academic and popular articles, along with a dozen books as sole author and three others as co-author. Previously, Tony was Editor/President of the North Carolina Biblical Recorder, and served as pastor of five churches during a 26-year period. He has served actively with the Baptist World Alliance since 2005.

Starlette Thomas

Starlette Thomas

Starlette is director of the Raceless Gospel Initiative, associate editor, the host of the Good Faith Media podcast “The Raceless Gospel,” and a member of the the Good Faith Media strategic advisory board. An ordained Baptist minister, Thomas has served previously in both local churches and denominational entities.

Mitch Randall

Mitch Randall

Mitch is the chief executive officer of Good Faith Media. Before joining GFM, he was the executive director of the Baptist Center for Ethics. In addition, he pastored churches in Kansas, Texas and Oklahoma for over 20 years, and he holds a Master’s of Divinity with Biblical Languages from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and a Doctor of Ministry degree from George W. Truett Theological Seminary. Mitch is a citizen of the Muscogee Creek Nation with his ancestors reaching back to the McIntosh and Childers clans. 

Cally Chisholm

Cally Chisholm

Cally is creative coordinator for publishing and marketing at GFM. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Mass Communications from Missouri Southern State University and her Associate of Arts degree from Ozarks Technical Community College in Springfield, Missouri.

Missy Randall

Missy Randall

Retreat Coordinator