This year near THE CUMBERLAND GAP |
You are cordially invited to attend the Cumberland Gap/Table Rock Spring Studio, a writing retreat scheduled June 17-21, 2012 on the campus of Lincoln Memorial University (LMU) in Harrogate, TN.
Located near the beautiful Cumberland Gap, Lincoln Memorial University has offered us a group of three-bedroom apartments, each with a living room and kitchenette. You'll have your own private bedroom and can stay in your apartment or pick from a variety of spots around campus to get your writing done. Wireless service and daytime library access plus a meal plan from the LMU dining hall are included in the tuition. All you need to do is focus on your work, we'll take care of the rest. (See REGISTER FOR STUDIO).
Table Rock is partnering this year with Lincoln Memorial University and the Mountain Heritage Literary Festival, which begins on Thursday, June 15 and runs through mid-day on the 17th when our retreat begins. Among the teacher/presenters at the festival are poets and prose writers Maurice Manning, Joseph Bathanti, Michael Chitwood, Jim Minick, and George Ella Lyon, and playwright Lisa Soland. Actor Barbara Bates Smith and musician Sue Massek will also peform. Come to the festival and stay on for another five days to get some writing done. Writers who attend the festival will receive a discount on the studio fee.
Bring a project you're working on or start a new one here! The idea is to be productive in the company of supportive writers and advisers and give yourself the quiet time you need to dig in!
Following breakfast each day, participants will disperse to write until noon. In the afternoon you can keep writing or take a break to explore the nearby natural attractions on your own.
Instructional time and manuscript feedback will follow every evening after dinner. Faculty in residence are novelist and poet Darnell Arnoult, and Georgann Eubanks, author of the Literary Trails Guidebook series from the University of North Carolina Press.
Our opening speaker will be novelist Pamela Duncan who will be in residence the whole week
The Cumberland Gap/Table Rock Spring Studio precedes our regular TABLE ROCK WRITERS WORKSHOP, held again at Wildacres Retreat in Little Switzerland, NC, September 17-21, 2012.
