Soul Mountain Retreat

The Soul Mountain Retreat is a writer's colony in East Haddam, Connecticut, USA.

The retreat was established in 2004 with a grant from the University of Connecticut College of Liberal Arts and Sciences[1] by the writer and former Connecticut poet laureate Marilyn Nelson.

The idea for creating the retreat grew out of the Cave Canem workshops.

[2] Soul Mountain offers fellowships to "emerging and established poets"[3] with an emphasis on supporting writers belonging to traditionally underrepresented racial or cultural groups.

[4] Past fellows have included Samiya Bashir, Sherwin Bitsui, Kwame Dawes, LeAnne Howe, Tara Betts, Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhran,[5] Allison Hedge Coke, Harryette Mullen, Bushra Rehman, and Afaa M.