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Scriptoria is a week-long writing workshop that focuses on writing craft, creative soul care, and the life of faith. Each day is filled with valuable workshops, lessons, and community.
Grow Your Writing & Community
Grow Your Writing & Community
What are you writing or wanting to write? Sometimes a writing idea arrives as a kind of itch. An itch that won't leave us alone.
Fiction, mid-grade fiction, nonfiction, and poetry itches are all served here at Scriptoria.
Is it time?
Scriptoria Ingredients
Scriptoria Ingredients
Morning workshops, professional feedback, writing instruction, and readings.
Morning workshops, professional feedback, writing instruction, and readings.
A Week Packed with Creative Growth
A Week Packed with Creative Growth
Writing energy. Creative ideas. New learning. Renewed confidence. These are the gifts of Scriptoria.
Curious about our schedule?
While Scriptoria 2026 is still being planned, check out our 2024 schedule here:
Gary D. Schmidt
Award-Winning Faculty
Award-Winning Faculty
Lunch with and learn from Scriptoria's faculty like longtime writers Vinita Hampton Wright (The Soul Tells a Story), Hugh Cook, and Newbery-winner Gary D. Schmidt.
Former Scriptoria Speakers
Neal Plantinga
Neal Plantinga
Cornelius Plantinga, Jr. (aka Neal Plantinga) is a Christian writer, speaker, and preacher.
Formerly President of Calvin Theological Seminary in Michigan, he is now Senior Research Fellow in the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship.
Three of his six books have been named Book of the Year by Christianity Today. He is ordained in the Christian Reformed Church in North America.
Amanda Hope Haley
Amanda Hope Haley
Has a bachelor of arts in Religious Studies from Rhodes College and a master of theological studies in Hebrew Scripture and Interpretation from Harvard University.
She writes and podcasts as the Red-Haired Archaeologist, bringing readers and listeners on her journeys to understand artifacts that can contextualize Scripture.
She contributed to The Voice Bible as a translator, writer, and editor; and she has been a content editor and ghost writer for popular Christian authors.
Daniel Nayeri
Daniel Nayeri
His award-winning 2020 autobiographical novel Everything Sad Is Untrue has been on several “best book” lists, including those of the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, NPR, and Publisher’s Weekly.
After finding asylum in Oklahoma, 12-year-old Khosrou, who later became Daniel, entered the educational system as a refugee and the target of bullies.
Following his education, Nayeri served as a publisher at Odd Dot, a children’s publishing group at McMillan Publishers.
Five Benefits from My First Experience at Scriptoria
By Kevin Washburn, author of Uprise: Building Resilience in Ourselves & Others
Five Benefits from My First Experience at Scriptoria
By Kevin Washburn, author of Uprise: Building Resilience in Ourselves & Others
Identity: I began to think of myself as a writer—not just a guy who did some writing on the side.
Feedback: Input from fellow writers and professional editors influenced my thinking and writing as I returned to it during and after the event.
Camaraderie: Some of the individuals I encountered have become occasional mentors for me, and some have become friends who I follow and cheer as they continue in their own writing.
Knowledge: Learning how to develop a proposal and “above the fold” text, for example, is know-how I have used several times since.
Confidence: I left feeling like I had something worthwhile to say in my writing, and I also had the ability to make it happen.
Workshops can be intense
Whether it’s your first workshop or you’re an experienced pro, workshops can be vulnerable and intimidating. For tips on both giving and receiving feedback, check out our workshop tips and survival guide!
Take your writing to the next level
Take your writing to the next level
Register now for Scriptoria 2024 and see where your work could take you!
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