August 1-3, 2025 | Mills Park Hotel in Yellow Springs, Ohio

Into the Springs Writers Workshop

Cultivate Your Craft. Grow Your Writing Business & Community.

A full weekend of shared sessions, events and lunch, making your interaction with featured guest instructors and writer participants easily accessible.

Mills Park Hotel. Banquet Room. All participants and staff follow the same schedule.

Agent Vicki Selvaggio will hear your pitches. Juliette Hyland will host Pen to Paper writing exercises. Both will lead sessions.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 1:

6-6:30 PM: Check-in. Sign-up Sheets for Pitching and Open Mic

6:30-7: Welcome. Introductions

Life of an Agent with Vicki

How to Pitch Your Book with Vicki

Characters to Root For with Juliette (A Pen to Paper Session: Bring writing materials for use throughout the weekend.)

SATURDAY, AUGUST 2:

6:45 AM: Coffee's Ready

7-8: Optional Writing Activity with Tara

9-9:15: Welcome Back

Effective Query Letters with Vicki

Pen to Paper. Writing with Juliette

Noon-2: Lunch break. Lunch served for everyone in the Banquet Hall, included in fee.

2-2:05: Afternoon, evening expectations

Goal. Motivation. Conflict. (GMC) with Writing Exercises with Juliette (Bring back work begun in Friday's Characters to Root For.)

Editing Practices with Vicki & Juliette

5: Raffle Basket for Scholarship Drawing

5-7: Dinner Break (On Your Own).

7-9: Open Mic Readings hosted by Tara. Open to the Public.

SUNDAY, AUGUST 3:

6:45 AM: Coffee's Ready

7-8: Tara: Optional Writing Activity

9:30-10:30: Book Sales. Open to the Public. Half table for those who requested it on their registration sheet.

Recommended Resources with Vicki & Juliette

Last Chance Q&A with Vicki & Juliette

11:50-Noon: In Gratitude. Next Time. Surveys. Group Photo. Adjournment.

For an Extra Fee:

Critique of Your First Ten Pages with Agent Vicki Selvaggio. 3 Openings Left!

Critique of Your First Ten Pages with Author Juliette Hyland. Limit 10.

Critique of Your Query Letter with Agent Vicki Selvaggio. Limit 10.

The presentations are great, but you also get a big dose of the intangibles, like inspiration, camaraderie and determination to continue!

~2024 Into the Springs Participant