Facilitator: Angela Jackson-Brown
Dates: Friday, August 1 – Sunday, August 3
Time: Link to schedule below
Location: Indiana Memorial Union at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana
Cost*: Nonmembers: $625; Writer/Reader Member: $400; Senior, Student, Librarian, Teacher, Military/Veteran Members: $350
*Please note you must be a member of the Indiana Writers Center in order to receive the member pricing. Please also note that the registration does not include hotel room.

Join us for a transformative overnight writing retreat with award-winning writer, Angela Jackson-Brown. The theme of this retreat is: Outlining Your Novel & Building a Sustainable Writing Plan. The goal of this retreat is to leave with a working outline of your novel and a personalized writing roadmap.

You can find the retreat itinerary here. Please note that it is subject to change.

Quick notes about the retreat:
*This retreat is most suitable for novel writers. Please note that this retreat works well for a novelist just starting a book OR you can have a partially done or completed novel .

*This is a women’s only retreat.

*Registration includes most meals, snacks, and refreshments.

*To be considered for the discounted room block at the Biddle Hotel at the Indiana Memorial Union, please register by Wednesday, May 28 by 5:00 PM EST.

*The registration cost DOES NOT include the hotel room. Once you register, you will be sent a link with a group code to purchase your hotel room at the Biddle Hotel.

*You are not required to stay at the Biddle Hotel to take part in the retreat. If you sign up after the room block deadline, there will likely still be rooms available, but you will not be able to receive the discounted room block.

*Payment plans are available for retreat registration.

Info about rooms at the Biddle Hotel:
$119 a night for single queen rooms and $159 a night for double queen or single king rooms

Retreat refund policy:
Due to limited spaces available, we will not be able to issue any refunds on retreat registrations after June 1, 2025

About the facilitator:

Angela Jackson-Brown is an award-winning writer, poet and playwright who is an Associate Professor in the creative writing program at Indiana University in Bloomington. She also teaches in the graduate program at the Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing at Spalding University in Louisville, KY. She is a graduate of Troy University, Auburn University and the Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing at Spalding University. She has published her short fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry in journals like The Louisville Journal and the Appalachian Review. She is the author of Drinking From a Bitter Cup, House Repairs, When Stars Rain Down and The Light Always Breaks. Her novels have received starred reviews from the Library Journal and glowing reviews from Alabama Public Library, Buzzfeed, Parade Magazine, and Women’s Weekly, just to name a few. When Stars Rain Down was named a finalist for the 2021 David J. Langum, Sr. Prize in American Historical Fiction, longlisted for the Granum Foundation Award, and shortlisted for the 2022 Indiana Authors Award. In October of 2023, Angela’s next novel, Homeward, a follow-up to When Stars Rain Down, will be published by Harper Muse.