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20K Words Spruceton Inn Retreat Application

This is a generative writing retreat. The goal is 20k new words, and with Chloé and Jillian's support, exercises, encouragement, inspiration (and prizes!), you will meet it. Everyone wants to write/publish a book, but they forget that this is the first step. Readings and exercises and really eccentric prompts will be given. You'd be surprised what you can accomplish in three days in this environment. All the retreats lead to lifelong friendships, that's just one of the bonuses. No one leaves until 20k!

Check-in: Saturday, May 16, anytime by 12 pm, 3 pm latest

Check-out: Tuesday, May 19, 12 pm

Meals: Lunches and dinners catered by locally sourced Hudson Meal Co. Alcohol not included. There is complimentary Café Grumpy coffee and Pop-Tarts at the front desk /bar. Spruceton Inn also has a small selection of goodies you can shop to whip up in your kitchenette or at the grills like burgers and eggs. You are welcome to bring your own snacks and breakfasts. 

Pricing: Standard rooms are $2,500 and kitchenette rooms are $2800. All dinners and lunches included in price, except for optional add-on breakfast. Payment plans are available. 

Detailed schedule to come after acceptance is confirmed.

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Standard room has one-seat table, mini fridge, microwave, queen bed and bathroom with tub.

Kitchenette room has two-seat table, mini fridge  stovetop burner, mini sink and mini fridge, queen bed and bathroom with tub. 

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Retreat Hosts Bios

JILLIAN EUGENIOS is a creative leader, digital strategist and Emmy Award–winning journalist.

She focuses on social-first audiences and builds ambitious storytelling projects from the ground up. Jillian has led creative teams inside major newsrooms, overseen editorial strategy for award-winning initiatives and developed content for brands across social, streaming and broadcast.

As a journalist, she has reported for CNN, NBC News and currently works in video development at The New York Times.

Her work has been recognized with multiple honors and nominations, including a Gracie award for exemplary reporting for and about women and several documentary awards from the Newswomen’s Club of New York. Her forthcoming documentary film is generously supported by The Sundance Institute and The Marshall Project.

She holds an MA in journalism from the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism and an MFA in creative writing from The New School.

Jillian is also a licensed New York City tour guide and leads walking tours of Greenwich Village. (Take a tour!) She lives in the Village with her wife and rescue dog.


CHLOÉ CALDWELL is the author of the national bestseller, Women (Harper Perennial, 2024) which The Atlantic called a “frenetic cult classic.” Her new memoir Trying, is now out from Graywolf Press, which The Brooklyn Rail called “Caldwell’s most condensed, structured, and technically interesting book” and The Washington Post wrote “Caldwell shows readers how to endure catastrophe with aplomb; there can be no better recommendation for literature.” She is also the author of the books I’ll Tell You In Person (2016), The Red Zone (2022), and Legs Get Led Astray (2012). She is currently working on a novel. 

Chloé’s essays have appeared in The New York Times, MSNBC, The Cut, The Believer, The Strategist, Vogue, Bon Appétit, Vice, Longreads, Nylon, The Rumpus, The Sun, and half a dozen anthologies including Goodbye To All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving NYC and Without A Net: The Female Experience of Growing Up Working Class, Sluts, and So Heavy A Weight. She has hosted writing retreats in Paris, Iceland, Portland, Oregon and upstate New York. She lives in Hudson. This is her sixth retreat at Spruceton Inn Bed & Bar. 

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