Tending the Writer's Garden: A Self Guided Writing Retreat Paperback – December 10, 2025

Step into an otherworldly garden—lush, full-color, and designed to spark wonder. From theologian and author Beth Felker Jones, this contemplative workbook invites you to slow down and pay attention.Cultivate Your Words. Root Your Calling. Grow Your Writing Life.Scripture centers gardening metaphors for a reason—they speak to the organic, finite, beautifully material nature of being human. They're also a metaphor for the writing life. Like gardening, writing is unpredictable, demanding, and fruitful. It invites us into steady, embodied work.The Writer’s Garden Retreat Workbook is designed to help you step into that joy.Rather than focusing on craft or technique, this retreat centers your imagination, your calling, and your mission—those fertile places where good writing begins. Through gentle reflection, guided practices, and space to dream, you’ll reconnect with why you write and what you’re growing. Wander through full-color enchanted landscapes as Beth Felker Jones guides you with reflective prompts and imaginative exercises.You’ll find an inviting, thoughtfully designed 120-page workbook with generous white (and green!) space—your own creative plot where ideas can grow. Consider it a place for tending, listening, planting, pruning, and flourishing.If you’re longing for encouragement…If you’re ready to nourish your work…If you want your writing life to feel grounded, spiritual, and alive…Welcome to the garden. Grace and peace await you here. Read more