GRAND LAKE STREAM — The Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance has announced the 2016 Black Fly Writers Retreat.

From Thursday, April 28, to Sunday, May 1, the MWPA will host a weekend of workshops, readings and writing at the Shoreline Camps on Big Lake in Grand Lake Stream, a town with a population of just over 100 in northeast Maine near the Canadian border.

This year’s faculty includes best-selling and award-winning authors Brock Clarke, Meredith Hall and Gibson Fay-LeBlanc.

2016 Black Fly Writing Retreat attendees will spend three mornings in workshops of no more than 12 participants working with one instructor. Afternoons will be open for writing and optional individual meetings with the instructors. In addition to the intensive workshops and one-on-one sessions, the weekend will include faculty and participant readings.

In partnership with the Maine Community Foundation, the MWPA is co-administering the Martin Dibner Memorial Fellowship for Maine Writers. The fellowship provides grants to promising Maine writers who have not published a full-length book to allow them to further their writing skills and experience.

The fellowships, due April 1, are open to writers of all genres. The MWPA is offering one Dibner Fellowship to the 2016 Black Fly Writing Retreat that will cover all retreat costs, including workshops, meals and lodging.

FMI: 207-228-8263, www.mainewriters.org, [email protected].