August 7-9, 2026 | Mills Park Hotel, 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.
Featured Guests, author Tim Waggoner & poet Julie L Moore
FRIDAY, AUGUST 7:
6-6:30 PM: Check-in. Sign-up Sheets for Pitching and Open Mic Readings. Menus.
6:30-7: Welcome. Introductions
Sessions:
Professional Journeys: Tim, Julie
Physiology of Fear: Tim
The Accessibility of Poetry: Julie
SATURDAY, AUGUST 8:
6:45 AM: Coffee's Ready
7-8: Optional Writing Activity with Tara
9-9:15: Welcome Back
Sessions:
Immersive Writing with Exercises: Tim
Poetry Exercises: Julie
Noon-2: Lunch served for everyone in the Banquet Hall, included in fee.
2-2:05: Afternoon, evening expectations
Sessions:
Common Writing/Writers Myths: Tim
Recommended Resources: Tim, Julie. Suggestions for where a writer can go to look up info and get further assistance with their writing and its publication.
5-7: Dinner Break (On Your Own).
7-11: Open Mic Readings
SUNDAY, AUGUST 9:
6:45 AM: Coffee's Ready
7-8: Optional Writing Activity with Tara.
9:30-10:30: Book Sales. Open to the Public. Half table for those who requested it on their registration sheet.
Sessions:
Being Resilient: Tim, Julie
Last Chance Q&A: Tim, Julie
11:50-Noon: In Gratitude. Next Time. Surveys. Group Photo. Adjournment.
“All of the sessions were absolutely wonderful and chockfull of valuable info. There was a lot of information that I didn’t know that I needed.”
~2025 Into the Springs Participant