Writers Moved By Faith

Scriptoria is a community of Christian writers crafting and supporting writing that engages, challenges, and awakens faith. To strengthen such writing, Scriptoria holds a week-long summer writing workshop that focuses on craft, editing, and genre. Each day is filled with valuable workshops, lessons, and Christian community.

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Building Community. Crafting Masterful Work.

Do you write fiction, nonfiction, or poetry?

Turn your ideas into reality with MFA-style workshops,

engaging speakers, and one-on-one feedback from editors and agents.

What will you create?

MFA-Style Workshops

Morning workshops, industry-level feedback, writing instruction, and evening readings.

Workshop Survival Guide

A Week Packed with Soul Care

Scriptoria is a week-long writing workshop that focuses on writing craft, creative soul care, editing, and genre. Each day is filled with valuable workshops, lessons, and community.

Curious about our schedule?

While Scriptoria 2026 is still being planned, check out our 2024 schedule here:

Workshop Schedule

Gary D. Schmidt

Award-Winning Faculty

Scriptoria features writing feedback and instruction from longtime writers Vinita Hampton Wright, Hugh Cook, L.S. Klatt, and Newbery-winner Gary D. Schmidt.

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Former Scriptoria Speakers:

Neal Plantinga

Cornelius Plantinga, Jr. (aka Neal Plantinga) is a Christian writer, speaker, and preacher.

Formerly President of Calvin Theological Seminary in Michigan, he is now Senior Research Fellow in the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship.

Three of his six books have been named Book of the Year by Christianity Today. He is ordained in the Christian Reformed Church in North America.

Amanda Hope Haley

Has a bachelor of arts in Religious Studies from Rhodes College and a master of theological studies in Hebrew Scripture and Interpretation from Harvard University.

She writes and podcasts as the Red-Haired Archaeologist, bringing readers and listeners on her journeys to understand artifacts that can contextualize Scripture.

She contributed to The Voice Bible as a translator, writer, and editor; and she has been a content editor and ghost writer for popular Christian authors.

Daniel Nayeri

His award-winning 2020 autobiographical novel Everything Sad Is Untrue has been on several “best book” lists, including those of the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, NPR, and Publisher’s Weekly.

After finding asylum in Oklahoma, 12-year-old Khosrou, who later became Daniel, entered the educational system as a refugee and the target of bullies.

Following his education, Nayeri served as a publisher at Odd Dot, a children’s publishing group at McMillan Publishers.

See the full lineup here:

2024 Speakers List

Five Benefits from My First Experience at Scriptoria
By Kevin Washburn, author of Uprise: Building Resilience in Ourselves & Others

Identity: I began to think of myself as a writer—not just a guy who did some writing on the side.

Feedback: Input from fellow writers and professional editors influenced my thinking and writing as I returned to it during and after the event.

Camaraderie: Some of the individuals I encountered have become occasional mentors for me, and some have become friends who I follow and cheer as they continue in their own writing.

Knowledge: Learning how to develop a proposal and “above the fold” text, for example, is know-how I have used several times since.

Confidence: I left feeling like I had something worthwhile to say in my writing, and I also had the ability to make it happen.

Workshops can be intense

Whether it's your first workshop or you're an experienced pro, workshops can be vulnerable and intimidating. For tips on both giving and receiving feedback, check out our workshop tips and survival guide!

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