Intrepid Scribes,
You are once again
cordially invited to attend a weekend of writing workshops, craft sessions, and
open mic at the Champlain College Young Writers' Conference, May 29-30. Now
in our fifteenth year, our doors are open to high school students who wish to
share their passion for story, drama, and song with their writerly brothers and
sisters—and with celebrated New England authors. We offer three days of
readings, improv, Moth storytelling, poetry slams, literary jazz/blues fusion,
and extended friendship on the hillside campus of Champlain College in
Burlington, Vermont.
OUR 2015 KEYNOTE SPEAKER,
AWARD-WINNING NOVELIST AND MEMOIRIST, DIANA ABU-JABER, is the author of Arabian
Jazz, Crescent, The Language of Baklava, Origin,
and Birds of Paradise. Reviewers have called her
prose “gorgeous” and “bitingly humorous,” and her stories and editorials
have appeared in Ploughshares, the North American
Review, Kenyon Review, Ms., Salon, Vogue, The
New York Times, The Nation, the Washington Post, and
elsewhere. A frequent contributor to NPR, Diana is the daughter of a Jordanian
immigrant whose passion for food and folktales exerted a “powerful influence”
over her work.
The postmark DEADLINE
OF FEBRUARY 17 is fast approaching and the blue lights are flashing.
If you have a tale to spin, or a story to share, please download an application
(or cover letter & brochure) from our website: http://www.champlain.edu/write
Very Best,
Jim Ellefson
CCYW Director, Champlain
College Poet-in-Residence
Lesley Wright
Co-Director
(802) 865-8456
