© Janus Adams LLC 2024

Thanks to your encouragement, "The Colors Out My Window" is celebrating its launch day today!

~ ​GS

Thank you so much for this morning's session!  So many good ideas, interesting, inspired insights, and lively banter made for a magical morning for me!

​~ JJ

Finish the book that's in you!

Join the WRITERS' RETREAT IN THE CATSKILLS: FALL 2024.  For four inspired days, October 11-14, honor your calling, write your book, and renew your spirit.  Explore the worlds of corporate- and self-publishing. Build your media and marketing skills with fellow writers in this LIVE IN-PERSON RETREAT experience. 

MEET JANUS ADAMS

FEATURES

"The truth-telling that is storytelling makes writing a form of resistance.  Add in the audacity of joy backed by intention, and writing becomes our super-power.  In a world seemingly gone retrograde, this Retreat is about the audacious joy of coming together for love of the work we do.”

~ Janus Adams

Founder/Workshop Leader

 Writers' Retreat in the Catskills

• 4-day themed writing workshop on the art and craft of storytelling, voice, structure, and JOY 

• Book proposal "best practices" workshop

• ​Self-publishing opportunities with workshop

• Book marketing training with workshop 

• ​Media training with group mock-interview and feedback

• Post-Retreat VIRTUAL follow-up Q&As: 

  • Friday, October 25, 2024, 7:00 pm ET

  • Friday, November 22, 2024, 7:00 pm ET

  • Friday, December 12, 2024, 7:00 pm ET

FIRST 10 SPECIAL OFFER

• 30-minute one-on-one pre-Retreat Zoom consult 

• 90-minute pre-Retreat group Q&A​​​​

​​“Janus Adams is a unicorn of a writer and editor, and anyone who has the good fortune to have her as a writing coach should count their lucky stars.  She is thoughtful, creative and deeply insightful.  She possesses wide-ranging skills and knowledge, and she is both practical and visionary.  She listens like no one else I know.  Janus has served as a journalist mentor-editor in my organization, The OpEd Project, for over a dozen years, and countless writers are the better for it.  I have been grateful for her wisdom and words on so many occasions, myself.  And lastly – I am lucky to call her a dear friend.”

~ Catherine "Katie" Orenstein
Founder, The OpEd Project

Daily Schedule  

10:00 am ET       Welcome, Introductions & Orientation
10:15 am ET       Discussion theme with Q&A: “What’s your ‘Question’?”  (Day 1)
11:30 pm ET       Writing session
12:00 pm ET       Lunch – breakout session
  1:00 pm ET       Author readings and feedback
  3:00 pm ET       Special training sessions

  4:00 pm ET       Closing notes & assignment
  4:15 pm ET       Community Social with breakout groups​​​​

​​​​​This LIVE IN-PERSON 4-day intensive is for new and seasoned Narrative Non-Fiction and Fiction Writers with a work-in-progress. The program affords participants time to write, read, reflect, learn new skills, share constructive criticism, and grow in a supportive environment.  Space limited.​

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING 

WHY YOU'LL WANT TO ATTEND

JOIN THE WRITERS' RETREAT IN THE CATSKILL TODAY

​​​"There is no greater agony than

bearing an untold story inside you."

~ Maya Angelou

​​Thanks for your wonderful feedback. It was exactly what I needed to hear about this particular piece and the overall goal of how I should present myself for all the reasons you pointed out so gently.

~ MR

DETAILS

• Date: Friday, October 11 - Monday October 14, 2024

• ​​Location: Scenic, historic Hudson River Valley B&B (to be announced)

• Genres: Narrative Non-Fiction, Fiction (writing sample required; maximum 25 pages, double-spaced)

• Workshop Leader: Janus Adams ​​​​

WHAT TO EXPECT

​An Emmy Award-winning journalist, historian, and playwright, Janus Adams is the author of eleven books for adult and 'tween readers. Her book, GLORY DAYS: 365 Inspired Moments in African American History, published by HarperCollins, was licensed by McDonald's for its Black History Month campaigns; reaching more than 3.1 million readers.  Her Glory Days-in-Concert, based on the book, premiered on Nashville’s Music Square for Warner Music Group. A recent social media video post went viral with more than 2 million views; increasing her following across 4 platforms.

Host of public radio's The Janus Adams Show and podcast.  Major media outlets that have featured her work include: ABC, CBS, CNN, C-SPAN, NBC, NPR. PBS; Black Enterprise, Chicago Tribune, Essence, Maria Shriver's Sunday Paper, Ms., New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, USA Today and the Washington Post.  Founder of Harambee, the first national book club for African American literature, she changed the publishing landscape for writers, readers, and publishers. To the Retreat, she brings a wealth of experience and a passion for storytelling. 

If you don't tell your story, who will?

In these turbulent times of book banning, attacks on individual rights, and the suppression of historical truths, storytelling is vital. This year's Writers' Retreat in the Catskills is a pro-right-to-write, pro-right-to-read, pro-Black History, pro-sanity call-to-action: Tell your truths.  Write for our lives!