Dear High-Stepping Daughters and
Sons of the Word Road,
You are cordially invited to
attend a weekend of writing workshops, craft sessions, and open mic at
the CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE YOUNG WRITERS' CONFERENCE, MAY 25-27. Now
in our eighteenth 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 2018 KEYNOTE SPEAKER,
AWARD-WINNING POET GENNAROSE NETHERCOTT, is the author of The Lumberjack’s Dove (Ecco/HarperCollins,
2018), selected by Louise Glück as a winner of the National Poetry Series. Her
other recent projects include A Ghost of Water (an
ekphrastic collaboration with printmaker Susan Osgood) and the narrative song
collection Modern Ballads. She tours nationally and internationally
composing poems-to-order for strangers on a 1952 Hermes Rocket typewriter, and
is one third of The Traveling Poetry Emporium, a team of poets/educators who
bring poems-to-order events to museums, universities, and libraries.
The postmark DEADLINE
OF FEBRUARY 23 is fast approaching and the blue lights are
flashing. If you have a tale to spin, or a story to share, please visit our
website: http://www.champlain.edu/write
Very Best,
Jim Ellefson & Lesley Wright, Co-directors
(802) 865-8456
ccyw@champlain.edu
