The cure for your creative isolation
December Newsletter
Dear writers,
What if I told you there’s a place where you can find “your people”?
When we founded the St. Basil Writers’ Workshop in 2021, we set ourselves a lofty goal: to find and cultivate a new generation of Inklings. We live in a time of great chaos that is also a time of great opportunity. Our world is hungry for good stories. Recognizing that, we sought out the very best storytelling instructors of our time–Paul Kingsnorth, Jonathan Pageau, Nicole Roccas, and Katherine Bolger Hyde.
A few years later, we’re starting to see the fruit of our work, with several of our students publishing their own books with great success.
But guess what?
All along, there was something a lot bigger going on, something we didn’t foresee and can’t take credit for: St. Basil’s has become a place where Christian creatives find a cure for their creative loneliness.
Our cohort one graduates live all over the US, and they still meet up every year in person for an annual writing retreat, as well as gathering weekly on Zoom to share their writing.
Our cohort two graduates live all over the world, and they still meet up weekly on Zoom to catch up on life.
Our current students are the first cohort scheduling regular read-alouds of their work and planning their own in-person reunion retreat mid-year!
Something is going on here, and it’s something very special. Glory to God, St. Basil Writers’ Workshop is becoming a place where incredibly talented creative writers are finding each other and spurring one another on with generosity and joy.
Yes, you can write alone and achieve success. But it’s a bit like trying to renovate a home on your own–even simple cosmetic fixes like hanging a curtain rod are far easier and faster when you’re working alongside others who share your vision and match your skill.
So if you’re tired of writing alone…
of losing momentum half-way through a project…
of not knowing what you need to do to break through to the next level of craft or how to begin thinking about publishing…
The St. Basil Writers’ Workshop may be for you.
Applications open January 1st for the 2026-2027 term!
To apply, all you need is:
5 minutes to complete the application.
A credit/debit card to pay the $25 application fee.
A 5,000-word writing sample (fiction only). Complete short stories are acceptable, as are excerpts from novellas and novels. Acceptance is determined by Dn. Nicholas based on submitted excerpts.
Applications will close February 28th, 2026.
Accepted students will be notified of their status on or before March 31st, 2026.
Dn. Nicholas Kotar, Instructor and Dean