We've posted our event times and rates for the upcoming Stegner Weekend in our 'Retreats and Workshops' section. View the whole schedule here!

Green wooden rockers on an elegant porch, views of a sparkling lake and distant mountains, an Indian Summer twilight, fantastic food, cozy accommodations, and engaging company discussing contemporary fiction, poetry, and film inspired by and created in the beautiful Northeast Kingdom.

This region, home to Wallace Stegner for decades, is a place that draws many, and once discovered, it’s a place that draws you again and again.

Announcing The Second Annual Wallace Stegner Weekend at Highland Lodge:
Northeast Kingdom Artists Speak about Sense of Place
Friday to Sunday, September 24-26, 2010

Our weekend is the same as last year, the last in September, beginning on Friday the 24th to Sunday the 26th. Our rates are $285 per person for the weekend, double occupancy, with accommodations, all meals from dinner Friday night through breakfast Sunday morning, and events included. Single occupancy rate is $320 for the weekend (9% tax is additional). Special book group rate: come with your book group; for every 5 people in a cottage, one person gets the weekend free!

This year our Stegner-inspired theme is “Sense of Place.” We are celebrating our place, this region of Vermont—the Northeast Kingdom, that Stegner so loved, and where he was inspired to place two novels and several short stories.
All of our guests reside in the Kingdom, and all are recognized for their talent and significant contributions to our lives here; their work has also garnered national recognition and awards. Young adult and children’s book author Natalie Kinsey Warnock, her brother and acclaimed poet Leland Kinsey, writer and oral history expert Charlie Morrissey, and arts and culture impresario and celebrated filmmaker Jay Craven have all agreed to join our weekend. Please see below for further descriptions on each of these talented NEK denizens.

Our weekend includes a panel discussion on “Sense of Place, “ film showings, author talks and readings, and excursions to visit other Stegner and “Crossing to Safety” haunts. We will keep Mr. Stegner in mind, even as we explore and celebrate the way contemporary artists utilize the NEK in their work.

Please help us spread the word! We’d love to fill the lodge and cottages. We are optimistic that with as great a turnout as last year, we can make the Stegner weekend an annual one. We thank our partners, the Galaxy Book Shop in Hardwick and the Greensboro Free Library for their assistance in making our weekend possible.

You can read about last year's Stegner weekend here: Stegner Weekend 2009