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Horace Greeley Writers’ Symposium - October 18, 2014
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Conference Schedule
Saturday, October 18
9:30am-5:00pm
9:30-10:00
Registration/Coffee
10:00-10:15
Welcome
10:15-11:00
John Manchester
Publishing a country weekly in the digital age
11:00-11:20 Coffee/Cider Break
11:20-12:30
Tom Smith
Simple, Sensuous, Passionate
12:30-1:30
Lunch Break
1:30-2:30
Joanna Tebbs Young
Getting to the Truth
2:30-2:45
Cider Break
2:45-4:00
Burnham Holmes
Getting Unstuck and On Track
4:00-4:15
Wrap Up
4:15
Tour of East Poultney Green
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Fees:
___ Registration$70
$60)
$_______
___ Students$20
(___ Early Registration before September 15
Total Enclosed
Mail To:
The Horace Greeley Foundation
54 Wilson Ave. Ext.
Poultney, VT 05764
Horace Greeley, founder of the New York
Tribune, suffragist, opponent of slavery,
and man of letters, learned the newspaper
trade in East Poultney, Vermont. He rose
from humble beginnings to become one of
the nation’s most respected journalists. He
also helped Abraham Lincoln gain office and
ran for President of the United States against
Ulysses Grant.
The Horace Greeley House is located at 95 on
the Green, East Poultney, Vermont
The Horace Greeley Foundation is funded
through donations and proceeds from our annual
conference fees. The Foundation is dedicated to
promoting the writer’s trade and the spirit of
public oration that was central to Greeley’s life.
horacegreeleyfoundation.org
Horace Greeley
Writers’
Symposium
12th Annual
Saturday, October 18, 2014
Church on the Green
East Poultney, Vermont
Sponsored by the
Horace Greeley Foundation
95 on the Green, East Poultney, VT 05764
Dedicated to supporting
the writing aspirations of those
working in all genres.
www.horacegreeleyfoundation.org
2014 Horace Greeley Writers’ Symposium
Featured Presenters
John Manchester
Publishing a country
weekly in the digital
age
John Manchester
is the publisher
of the Manchester
Newspapers, including
The Lakes Region Free
Press, The Granville
Sentinnel, and The Whitehall Times. In
business since 1875, Manchester Newspapers,
Inc. is the leading publisher of Northern
New York and Western Vermont weekly
newspapers.
Tom Smith
Simple, Sensuous,
Passionate
John Milton in his
essay “On Education”
used these three
adjectives to define
what a poem should
be. We will consider
what he meant by
each with special attention to “sensuous.” I
will read some poems of mine to illustrate
my interpretation. We will perform
one or more exercises to enhance our
understanding; also to have some fun and
encourage “flights of fancy.”
Professor Emeritus of Castleton State College
where he taught from 1964 to 1995, Tom
Smith received his undergraduate degree in
English and Speech from SUNY-Albany in
1956, his graduate degrees in Literature from
Rutgers-New Brunswick.
Smith’s poems have been published in such
magazines as Virginia Quarterly, American
Scholar, and New York Quarterly. He has
published one novel, A Well-Behaved Little
Boy, as well as eleven volumes of poetry.
His long story “The Christmas Shopper”
won the 2009 A.E. Coppard Prize for
Fiction.
Also a local actor, Smith is married to
soprano and actress Virginia DeAngelis
Smith.
Joanna Tebbs
Young
Getting to the Truth
Whether you are
writing a novel, a
screen-play, an article,
or a memoir, getting
to your own truth
in order to resonate
with your audience is an essential first step.
I will discuss the benefits of expressive
writing as a way to access personal and
universal truths, as well as a tool for
inspiring creativity and getting over Page
Fright. Exercises will introduce some basic
techniques for deep, meaningful writing.
Joanna Tebbs Young is a weekly columnist
for the Rutland Reader and Rutland Herald,
and next year will be have an article
published in the Rutland Magazine. She
holds a BA-Hon from Castleton State
College, a MA from Goddard College in
Transformative Language Arts, and is
certified through the Center for Journal
Therapy. She holds expressive writing
workshops in Rutland at Allen House
Coaching Collaborative and Writers’ Room
which she co-owns with her husband,
Brad Young, a Hypnotherapist and EMDR
practitioner. Her memoir is out and about
pursuing a publisher.
Burnham
Holmes
Getting Unstuck
and On Track
“When I was
younger, I went
to hear Tennessee
Williams speak
at the 92nd Street
Y in New York
City. I wanted to hear, like I imagine
did most people there, what this
distinguished man of the theatre had to
say, this playwright who had penned
such immortal classics as The Streetcar
Named Desire. Perhaps we would
be treated not only to insights into
playwrighting but also the American
theatre. But no, that was not what was
in store….”
Writers, whether beginning or
advanced, need a writing practice. This
session will explore the necessity and
benefits of regular writing and ways
to establish and develop your own
practice.
Burnham Holmes has held staff and
freelance
positions at
several New
York publishers,
has written
seventeen books
on a wide variety
of subjects, and
teaches writing
and speech at
Castleton State
College.
East Poultney Green