The 2008 RopeWalk Writers Retreat marks our 20th year in Utopia, aka, New Harmony, Indiana. Plans are well underway for new Master Classes (one each in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry) on Saturday.

The weeklong summer 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.