Refunds:
- $50 cancellation fee after August 31th.
- No refunds after September 22nd (two weeks prior) unless we can refill your spot.
- No refunds for any reason once the Retreat and Workshop weeks are underway.
Policies:
- We adhere to all Wildacres Retreat facility codes and policies. Please click here for information on the retreat facility itself. You’ll find much information about the site, directions, tips, and facility policies. (We meet at Wildacres Retreat, but we are NOT in charge of the facility itself.)
- If you are diagnosed with a contagious illness of any sort, you will need to leave Wildacres Workshop and facility as soon as possible. Our apologies, but we will not be able to refund your fee.
- If you are asked to leave the premises due to a Code of Conduct violation or other health or safety reason, we will not be able to refund your fee.
- Wildacres Writers Workshop, its director, and team members are not liable for any injury, physical, mental, or emotional incurred while at the workshop, retreat, or travel to and from.
Please note that you must be at least 18 years old to attend.
Illness Refund Policy:
If you become ill before the workshop or retreat, the regular cancellation policy applies.
If you become ill once you are at Wildacres, we ask that you kindly return home. Unfortunately, we will not be able to refund your fee.
The reason we are not able to refund money once the weeks are underway is because your fee only covers our expenses (hence the very affordable price) and those expenses will be incurred even if you have to leave. IF we are able to recoup any expenses, we will gladly refund that portion to you, but be aware that that is unlikely.
Code of Conduct:
Be nice to each other.
It’s pretty simple. Remember what your kindergarten or Sunday School teacher told you: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Be respectful of other people’s culture, religion, identity, sexual orientation, politics, etc.
Strive to call people by the pronouns they prefer. Be gracious when someone slips up and uses the wrong ones.
Be courteous and compassionate. Smile. Be friendly. You’re in the best place on Earth for a whole week (or two). Be grateful and gracious and things should work out fine.
If, on the outside chance, someone mistreats you or hurts you in any way, please tell the director or a member of the Workshop Team. We’re here to help. The team member will let the director know and she will talk with you to help work things out.
If you are the one on the offending end, the director will talk to you too and hopefully a peace can be reached on site. If the offense is egregious, you may be asked to leave. If that is the case, we will not be able to refund your fee and depending on the offense, you may not be able to return. To avoid this happening, start at the top of the Code of Conduct and read it again.