Women's Fall Writing Retreat 2026

This November, Tributary Hotel & Spa invites a small group of writers to a four-day literary retreat rooted inland and season — an invitation to slow down, look closer, and write alongside it. Anchored by a private workshop with Oregon Poet Laureate Ellen Waterston, the retreat moves guests through McMinnville's vineyards and farms, quiet mornings of in-suite writing time, an art walk and spa afternoon, and evenings of conversation and dinner at ōkta Cellar and ōkta Farm & Kitchen.

Co-produced with Kelly Cox, creator and host of PBS's The Original Fare, the retreat brings a land-to-narrative approach honed over two decades in the field to the experience design throughout. Every element — the pace, the meals, the land itself — is built as both a place to rest and a prompt to write from.

Limited to a small group of guests, this inaugural retreat is the first in what's planned as a recurring seasonal series, pairing Tributary's sanctuary of slow with the Valley's rhythm of land, season, and craft.