Friday, December 19, 2003
RopeWalk retreat in February
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Two award-winning authors will lead the RopeWalk Winter Retreat, a program of University of Southern Indiana, February 27-29 in New Harmony, Ind. Participants will have the opportunity to study short fiction/non-fiction with Lee Martin or poetry with Allison Joseph at the Barn Abbey, a rustic retreat center in the historic town. Martin is the author of the recently released Quakertown, heralded by the Washington Post as “a consistently impressive and often dazzling new novel.” He also wrote the acclaimed memoir, From Our House, and the short story collection, The Least You Need to Know. His next book, Turning Bones, will be part of University of Nebraska’s American Lives Series. A native of southern Illinois, Martin is an associate professor of English at Ohio State University. He previously was featured in the RopeWalk Reading Series and as the RopeWalk 2003 Hoosier Writer. Joseph, a professor of creative writing at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, is the author of four collections of poetry: What Keeps Us Here, which won the 1992 Ampersand Press Women Poets Series Competition; Soul Train; In Every Seam; and Imitation of Life. In 2004, World Press will be publishing her next collection, Worldly Pleasures, winner of the 2003 World Press Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies, including American Poetry: The Next Generation. She also is the editor of Crab Orchard Review and has appeared as a guest reader at the RopeWalk Writers Retreat and in the RopeWalk Reading Series. The winter retreat fee is $350, including the workshop, meals, and lodging at the Barn Abbey, or $300 for the workshop and meals only. A nonrefundable registration fee of $25 is due by January 18 with the balance payable by February 2, which also is the manuscript deadline. Additional information and registration are available on the Web at |
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