RopeWalk Writers Retreat

Summer Retreat 2009 - June 7-13

It's here! RopeWalk staff will be in New Harmony starting about 3 p.m. on Sunday. Registration begins at 4 p.m. at the New Harmony Inn Conference Center. Check-in at the Barn Abbey begins at 3 p.m. Best way to contact us between now and Sunday afternoon is to e-mail Linda Cleek.

The 2009 RopeWalk Writers Retreat marks our 20th anniversary (and 21st edition) in Utopia, aka, New Harmony, Indiana. Events begin on Sunday, June 7, with a picnic for RopeWalk alumni and 2009 participants, followed by an alumni reading. RopeWalk proper begins that evening and ends with a closing dinner on Friday, June 13. The festivities wrap up after breakfast on Saturday.

Faculty for RopeWalk 2009 are Marianne Boruch, poetry; Andrew Hudgins, poetry; Kyoko Mori, creative nonfiction; and Ben Percy, fiction. Novelist Erin McGraw will join us as guest reader and lecturer.

The weeklong RopeWalk Writers Retreat gives participants an opportunity to attend workshops and to confer privately with one of four prominent writers. Historic New Harmony, Indiana, site of two nineteenth-century utopian experiments, provides an ideal setting for this event with its retreat-like atmosphere and its history of creative and intellectual achievement. At RopeWalk you will be encouraged to write, not simply listen to others talk about writing. In addition, several writers will present papers or give lectures, open to all participants, on aspects of the craft of writing. For additional information, call 812/464-1863 or 800/467-8600. E-mail inquiries should be addressed to ropewalk@usi.edu.

If you require assistance with seating at a RopeWalk reading, large-print materials, sign language interpretation, or other accommodations to facilitate your participation, please contact Linda Cleek at 812/464-1863 or 800/467-8600 as far in advance as possible.

RopeWalk Writers Retreat is a program of the University of Southern Indiana.

RopeWalk Writers Retreat
a program of the University of Southern Indiana