Chanté Griffin & Margot Starbuck present...
AUG
14-21,
2026
A virtual writing retreat for grown-ups
who are ready to stop waiting and start writing.
Join Chanté Griffin and Margot Starbuck—award-winning authors and writing coaches—for a playful, focused, get-it-done writing experience designed to help you step away from everyday demands, name a clear writing goal, and make real progress.
GET AWAY !
Join from an Airbnb, a library, a borrowed guest room, or anywhere you can disappear and give your writing the attention it
deserves.
We’ll kick off Friday night (Aug. 14) with introductions and goal-setting, then spend Saturday and Sunday in a mix of light teaching, supportive workshopping and ample focused writing time.
From Monday through Thursday (Aug. 17-20), you’ll return to regular life with one challenge: protect 90 minutes a day for your writing. Then we’ll gather Friday (Aug. 21) for a celebratory showcase where campers can share a bit of what you created.
We encourage you to step away from your everyday-life! Find a spot where you can disappear for a while and give your writing the attention it deserves. You bring the project. We’ll bring the structure, encouragement, accountability, and camp spirit.
*Optional one-on-one sessions with Chanté and Margot
available for an additional fee.
Block out these days on your calendar now...
Daily Camp Schedule
FRIDAY: Welcome to Summer Camp for Writers!
(2 Hours)
· Welcome!
· Your Goals for Camp
· What to Expect at Camp
· Writing Exercise
· Evening Campfire Chat
· Lights Out
OPTIONAL, for Night Owls: 90 Minutes Writing Time
SATURDAY: Doing Work, Having Fun
(8 Hours)
OPTIONAL: Morning Meditation with Chanté
· Rise and Shine!
· Making the Most of Camp
· Writing Time (2.5 Hours)
· Lunch Break (1 Hour)
· OPTIONAL, Bring your lunch/snack to camp Directors’ Office
· Optional Workshop (1 Hour)
· Writing Time (2.5 Hours)
· Evening Campfire Chat
· Lights Out
OPTIONAL, for Night Owls: Campfire Fun, B-Y-O-S’Mores
SUNDAY: Reaching Goals, Launching into Writing Week
(5 Hours)
OPTIONAL: Morning Meditation with Chanté
· Rise and Shine!
· Writing Time (3 Hours)
OPTIONAL: Workshopping Your Writing
· Choose Your Own Adventure (1 Hour)
· Evening Campfire Chat
· Goodbyes (for now!)
*Community Camp Sessions End Until Friday Showcase
OPTIONAL: Schedule weekday appointments with Chanté and/or Margot
MONDAY-THURSDAY: Solo Trekking
Daily 90 Minutes of Personal Writing Time
FRIDAY: Camper Talent Showcase!
(90 Minutes)
Share Your Writing and Celebrate Your Progress!
Meet Camp Directors Chanté & Margot
Chanté Griffin is a writer and writing coach whose work centers on culture, racial healing, and faith. She is an award-winning journalist and former contributor to more than fifty publications including The Washington Post, The Root, The Los Angeles Times, Good Housekeeping, and Vogue.com. Chanté has authored four books including Loving Your Black Neighbor As Yourself: A Guide to Closing the Space Between Us, which received a 2025 NAACP Image Award Nomination for “Outstanding Literary Work - Instructional."
Chanté’s writing has received support from the Rosalynn Carter Fellowship for Mental Health Journalism, the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Foundation, and the California Arts Council. Chanté coaches creatives through 31 Exodus Arts Collective, an online community that provides accountability, coaching, and spiritual care for writers.
In her free time, she enjoys salsa dancing and partially reading the dozen books on her nightstand.
Learn more at YouGoChante.com
Margot Starbuck is a New York Times bestselling writer who has written dozens of books and worked with publishers on hundreds of major publishing projects as a writer, editor, and coach. She's a graduate of Westmont College and Princeton Theological Seminary.
Margot especially enjoys writing alongside athletes, entertainers, and overcomers. And she specializes in helping writers get published by equipping them to craft winning book proposals and books through courses at BuildYourBestBook.com!
Margot lives in Durham, North Carolina’s North Street Neighborhood—a community built around friends with disabilities. (And she dishes about neighbor-love in Small Things With Great Love: Adventures in Loving Your Neighbor.)
When she’s not writing, Margot enjoys riding her bike on American Tobacco Trail and creating with fabric, dye, beads, and paint.
Learn more at MargotStarbuck.com.
Ready to finally write that
book that's inside you?
REGISTER FOR CAMP
BY WED AUG. 5!
