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A special event for summer 2009!
Come improve your writing skills with other Christians
in the Green Mountains this summer. Christian Writer's Retreat at Gove Hill
Thetford, Vermont
July 17th - 19th 2009 Understanding Writing
in the Context of Your Faith Workshops in poetry, creative writing or non-fiction writing are available along with general sessions on writing. Workshop leaders:
Harold Fickett, Diane Glancy and Matt Dickerson.
Cost: $180 (includes all materials, workshops, food & lodging) $50 discount for American Baptist Church members. Call Gove Hill at 802-785-4000 or visit their website www.ghsm.org for more information and registration. Information and Application Form [pdf]
Packing List [doc] |
Harold Fickett (Fiction Workshop) is the author of many books, including the acclaimed novel, The Holy Fool, the biography Flannery O'Connor: Images of Grace, and a work of investigative journalism and reflection, The Living Christ. He is co-founder of Image: Art, Faith, Mystery, a journal devoted to the intersection of the arts and religion. He currently serves as the Associate Editor of the web magazine and online social network Godspy and writes for publications as varied as Books & Culture and salon.com.
Diane Glancy (Poetry Workshop) was the Visiting Richard Thomas Professor of Creative Writing at Kenyon College in 2008-09. Before that, she was a professor at Macalester College for 20 years. She has published many collections of poetry including the award-winning Aslum in the Grasslands, as well as Rooms: New and Selected Poems, and Primer of the Obsolete. She has received two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships in Poetry. Matthew Dickerson (Creative Non-Fiction Workshop) has published a novel (The Finnsburg Encounter), a biography (Hammers and Nails: the Life and Music of Mark Heard), and several books about myth and story, and about literature and Christian ecology (most recently Narnia and the Fields of Arbol: the Environmental Visition of C.S. Lewis). He is director of the New England Young Writers Conference and a founder and director of the Vermont Conference on Christianity and the Arts.
Note: we will not have a VCCA conference in spring 2009. Vermont Conference on Christianity and the Arts If you're interested in the creative arts -- either as an artist, performer, creator, designer, or one who appreciates the arts -- and you take the Christian faith seriously enough to grapple with it, our conference is for you! This cross-denominational conference serves those who seek to understand and appreciate the value and significance of the arts within a Christian framework. It provides a context for interaction and dialogue among artists, audiences, and all who desire to integrate the arts and faith with a day full of talks, discussions, and workshops.
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photo ©2005 Paul Rogers VERMONT CONFERENCE on CHRISTIANITY and the ARTS It's a place where thoughtful people, aware of the complex joy involved in the creative process, can come together and talk about the ways belief and art intersect and inform one another... It’s been a great experience for me to be able to share ideas and talk seriously with other writers who also think carefully about faith and the creative process."
- Steve Bertolino, St. Mary’s Church (Middlebury), M.A. in English, Penn State , 2003 | "The first arts conference I went to was a breath of fresh air for me. I was on cloud nine afterwards! It was refreshing and inspiring to hear articulate presentations by respected artists who seek to understand the relationship between faith and art."
- Kara Krikorian, North Avenue Alliance Church | "VCCA has been an enlightening, refreshing, and encouraging experience each of the three years I've gone. I've almost always enjoyed the stretching of my comfort zone, but I always appreciate the community of artist/participants and the worship/fellowship times we share. It's a quality, well-planned event; with the broad range of art well-represented, and I'm again looking forward to this year's conference!"
- Kathy Jewett, Memorial Baptist Church (Middlebury) |
 | Portrait painted by Elisabeth Ehmann
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Previous Years' Conference Workshop Leaders
(2004-2008)
Devin Arrington, Pennsylvania: Composition
Sandra Bowden, Massachusetts: Visual Arts
Robert W. Brunelle, Jr., Vermont: Cartoons
Charmaine, Australia: Songwriting, Worship
Isabelle Depelteau, Montreal: Television Production, Scriptwriting, Dance
Matthew Dickerson, Vermont: Fiction, Writing
Ted Dickerson, North Carolina: Architecture
Elisabeth Ehmann, Vermont: Painting
(portrait painting, example above right)
Cyndi Freeman, Vermont: Photography
Jason Harrod, N. Carolina: Singer/Songwriter
Steven Klimowsi, Vermont: Classical Music
Thom Leshinsky, Vermont: Guitar, Music
(right, with Reed Prescott painting)
Jeff Miller, Massachusetts: Theatre
Ken Myers, Mars Hill Audio
Kevin Parizo, Vermont: Organ, Worship
Reed Prescott, Vermont: Painting
Paul Rogers, Vermont: Photography
Hilary Rushford, New York: Dance
Robert Siegel, Maine: Poetry, Nature Writing
Steve Thrall, Paris: Arts Ministry & Missions
David Wright, Illinois: Poetry, Hymn Writing
photo ©2005 Paul Rogers
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