Saturday, May 01, 2004
RopeWalk returning to New Harmony in June
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The 2004 RopeWalk Writers Retreat will be held June 13-19 in New Harmony, Ind., and the registration deadline is quickly approaching. The weeklong retreat, a program of University of Southern Indiana, gives participants an opportunity to attend workshops and confer privately with one of five prominent writers. Limited space remains in the three poetry workshops that will be led by Andrew Hudgins, Rodney Jones, and Leslie Ullman; the fiction workshop led by Erin McGraw; and the nonfiction workshop led by Speer Morgan. Hudgins, who serves on the faculty at Ohio State University, has published six books of poetry, including Ecstatic in the Poison, Babylon in a Jar, the Glass Hammer, The Never-Ending, After the Lost War, and Saint and Stranger. His honors include several poetry prizes as well as fellowships to Stanford and Princeton universities and the National Endowment for the Arts. Jones, professor of English at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, is the author of six books of poetry: The Story They Told Us of Light, The Unborn, Transparent Gestures, Apocalyptic Narrative, Things That Happen Once, and Elegy for the Southern Drawl. His awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Lavan Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Ullman, who serves on the faculty of the University of Texas El Paso’s Creative Writing Program and the Vermont College MFA Program, has published three poetry collections: Natural Histories, Dreams by No One’s Daughter, and Slow Work Through Sand. She is the recipient of a Yale Series of Younger Poets Award, an Iowa Poetry Prize, and two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships. McGraw, associate professor of English at Ohio State University, is the author of three books: The Baby Tree, Lies of the Saints, and Bodies at Sea. Her new book, The Good Life, is forthcoming from Houghton Mifflin. McGraw’s awards include the 1996 Pushcart Prize and the National Society of Arts and Letters Career Award as well as fellowships at MacDowell, Yaddo, and Stanford. Morgan, professor of English at University of Missouri, is the author of five novels: Belle Star: A Novel, Brother Enemy, The Assemblers, The Whipping Boy, and The Freshour Cylinders. He is the winner of an American Book Award, editor of The Missouri Review, and co-editor of For Our Beloved Country: Diaries of Americans in War. He also published the short story collection, Frog Gig and Other Stories. Retreat events will be held at various locations in New Harmony, including the New Harmony Inn, the Wheatcroft Guest House, the Barn Abbey, and The Atheneum. Lodging options are available in New Harmony and nearby. Tuition, $545, includes workshops, individual conference, readings, receptions, and several meals. May 15 is the registration and manuscript deadline. For registration or additional information, call USI Extended Services at 812/464-1989 or 800/467-8600, e-mail ropewalk@usi.edu, or visit www.ropewalk.org. Now in its 16th year, RopeWalk has been assisted by grants from Mrs. Ruth Lilly, Susan R. Enlow, the Indiana Arts Commission, the Blaffer Trust, the Witter-Bynner Foundation, the USI Society for Arts and Humanities, and the support of Historic New Harmony, an outreach program of USI. |
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