A school, and a media event that happens at a cabin.
Ten women across four generations spend three days at a house on a lake in Garden Bay, each teaching the other nine the one thing her readers keep asking her to explain. A few weeks later, on one morning, all ten publish what they taught and what they learned. Together they reach millions of women, and for one morning those women hear it from all ten at once.
Rage creates urgency. Knowledge creates value. What women do with both is the institution we're building.
The name keeps "rage" because it's true, and because it's what gets a woman writer to say yes. The surface stays calm, with no logos in the house, not to soften the rage but to protect it: nobody in the room is performing for anyone.
This is hope with a mechanism. The room stays small; the ideas don't. Each year adds ten lessons, three Fellows and a new body of published work to a growing, independent institution.
Ten lessons, ten notebooks, one morning.
Before
Each woman names the one thing she'll teach. Not her writing: the skill underneath it. Each is assigned one other woman to take notes on.
At the cabin
Forty-five minutes taught, fifteen argued, at the table or in the forest, to nine women and a camera. Not keynotes. Things she actually knows how to do.
One morning
A few weeks later, all ten publish two pieces on their own channels: the lesson she taught, and her notebook from another woman's lesson, with the teacher's name on it.
After
The ten lessons become one free syllabus, every name on the cover: what a reader forwards to her sister, and what next year adds ten more lessons to.
There is no headliner. Every woman is the draw.
Inside the room, the ten women are peers: each teaches, each takes notes, none makes it her weekend, and every woman adds an audience the others don't already have. Around the room, Blue Cedar Publishing holds the composition and the partnerships, the curriculum and the record, so the women don't have to.
- Four generations, international by default
- At least three women of colour, or the room is a room
- Writers first, whatever the channel
- Seven invited writers and three Garden Bay Fellows
Three seats
Accepted. Names announced together, once the room is set.
Four seats
Invitations are out, one woman at a time.
Three seats
Chosen by application. Call opens spring 2027.
Everyone is paid. Nobody sells anything. No brand is in the house.
What you get
- An honorarium, the same for every woman in the room
- Travel, the house, a chef, the lake, the fire: all of it covered
- A filmed session of you teaching, yours to use anywhere, forever
- You keep everything you make. No partner has approval over any of it
- Nine women who are as good at this as you are, and a morning when all ten of you publish at once
- Your name on the cover of a syllabus that outlasts the weekend
What we ask. Four things, and nothing else
- One lesson. Name the one thing you'll teach. Not your writing; the skill underneath it
- Teach and learn. Forty-five minutes, taught your way. Be in the room for the others, and keep a notebook on one
- Two pieces, one morning. Publish your lesson and your notebook on your own channel, on the agreed date, in whatever form carries what you know
- The syllabus. Let your lesson and notebook live in the free syllabus, under your name, with the teacher's name on it
A yes in principle is enough to hold your seat.
Some women beat the odds. Others change them.
Three seats, every year, for women who have refused to let circumstances determine the limits of their lives. Writers, artists, survivors, rebels. You don't need an audience. You don't need a book. You don't need permission.
Tell us what you refused, and what you built instead.
Travel, the weekend and a stipend. Fellows teach as equals: same hour, same notebook, same publishing morning. Chosen by published criteria, an independent review committee and documented decisions. Applications open spring 2027.
Partners fund the record, not the room.
Partners fund the conditions that make the work possible: the film, the syllabus, the seats, the house. They don't buy the women, their opinions or their independence, and that's precisely what makes their name worth putting there. Only brands that advocate for women, not ones that market to them.
Every partnership includes
- No logos, signage or representatives on site, written in as a feature
- Credit in the film and the syllabus, made by the event
- A one-page accounting after the weekend
No partnership includes
- Approval over anything the women make
- Any say in who is invited or selected
- Audience data, a pitch moment, or required posts
Partner conversations for 2027 are open. partners@rageintheforest.com
From the first yes to the first syllabus.
Invitations
The first writers confirm; the room takes shape across four generations.
Partners confirmed
Founding and content partners in place.
The Fellowship call
Criteria published; applications open; three Fellows chosen.
The weekend
Ten lessons at the lake in Garden Bay. The film is shot.
Publishing morning
Ten lessons, ten notebooks, one morning, millions of readers.
The syllabus
Free, forwardable, every name on the cover. Partners receive the accounting.
The format, the first body of work, the first three Fellows.
Returning partners with first refusal on every tier; a new cohort; the first alumnae.
An independent cultural institution, with the room still exactly this size.
Hope with a mechanism.
The rage is the engine. The lessons are where it goes.