“I have been to other retreats for writers and artists but I have been to nothing quite like the Mesa and nothing quite as good in certain ways. The landscape and the quiet are very inspiring. I was amazed at the amount of work I was able to conceive, write, edit and expand. I had not expected to get as much good work done and feel that it would only have been possible at that time and in that place. Some might say it was wonderful. Others might describe it as magic. I’ll say it was pure inspiration, which is both wonderful and magical and something else that we do not yet have a word for, and probably never will.”

-Stanley Crouch, on his Mesa Experience

“A residency and the refuge it offers provides the rarest of gifts: time, unencumbered time, to imagine or to re-imagine, and to enter the flow that uninterrupted focus allows. To do this in the beauty of Zion is the gift of a lifetime.”

-Teresa Jordan

“Springdale is the most fantastic little place. My writing has gone significantly well. For me, being up here all by myself, being able to write in peace has been memorable.”

-Syl Cheney Coker