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U.S. Postage . Diane . She has 228 College Avenue (poems), PAID Richmond, Indiana 47374 Alexandria, IN 765-983-1423 or 1-800-432-1377 Permit No. 7 Book Today Primer of the Obsolete , and (essays), As one interviewer put it, Lauren Winner, in Both of this year’s featured speakers come with turn—this time to Christianity and more specifi- cally the Anglican Church. her first twenty-six years, “traveled enough spiri- tually, intellectually, and geographically to fill several lifetimes.” Although Winner saw nothing especially remarkable about her own journey, she did feel a need to write. “It is a somewhat compli- cated thing to do—to try, after a religious conver- sion, to put the pieces of one’s life and self back together,” Winner said. “Like many people, I find that writing helps me make sense of my own thoughts. So I began scribbling things down.” Those scribblings eventually led to her first book— Girl Meets God: On the Path to a Spiritual Life which established her as a vital new voice in contemporary dialogues concerning religion and spirituality. a long list of accomplishments. Lauren Winner has already followed her memoir with two more well- Publishers Weekly , Real Sex: The Naked Truth About Chastity In Between Places . and Mudhouse Sabbath Writing Lauren Winner The Washington Post Book World

4,500/6-05 , Stone Heart: A Novel of Sacajawea received books: appeared on PBS’s Religion & Ethics Newsweekly and has written for Review Glancy, has published eight novels, four short story collections, three books of essays, and ten volumes of poetry. Her many accolades include two awards from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her most recent books include and of The FEATURED SPEAKERS: The T HEMINSRYOFWG OCTOBER 21&22 M Diane Glancyand October 21-22, 2005 RICHMOND Lauren Winner of INDIANA 2005 in Diane Glancy inistry C OL O QUIM A N N UAL F E A T U R E D S P E A K E R S A N A N N U A L C O L L O Q U I U M

Lauren Winner Diane Glancy Ministry For both of our featured speakers this year, For Diane Glancy, who was raised by a Chero- Glancy carries the stories and voices of her Lauren Winner grew up in Charlottesville, Virginia. Her father was a secular Jew, her mother writing has been a way to reconcile, and perhaps integrate, disparate elements of life and faith. kee father and a mother of German-English de- scent, writing has been a way of listening to the different voices that inhabit her being. “We carry more than we realize . . . . We carry our ancestors, not in the sense of ghosts, but in the sense of the past being with us. We carry the burden or the weight of glory…of everything that has come before.” Christian faith as well as the rich Cherokee heritage that came to her through her father. In her novels, plays, essays, and poems, Glancy has worked on recovering and empowering those voices that have been marginalized. In her novels, plays, essays, and poems, she celebrates the stories of Biblical women, of Native Americans, and of the land itself. If writing has been, for Glancy, a listening way, a gathering of voices, it has also been a way of living into a strong and gathered voice. As she puts it, “I think that’s the work we do all our lives: bringing together the fragments and trying to make some cohesive wholeness out of them.” a lapsed southern Baptist. While in high school she began attending a reform Jewish synagogue. In her freshman year at , after years of serious study and consideration, she immersed herself in the Orthodox Jewish community. Later, after a low ebb in her spiritual life, she was studying at Cambridge University in England when her faith journey took a different W O R K S H O P S Most of the workshops listed below will be repeated. SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Please choose one to attend in the morning and a different one for the afternoon session. Friday, October 21 6:30 p.m. Registration/Reception Writing, Faith, and Biblical Voices An Author-Editor Conversation 7:00 p.m. Reading: Mary Brown, Ray Waddle, Peter Anderson, Brent Bill, Tom Led by Diane Glancy Lil Copan and Brent Bill (afternoon only ) Mullen, and Diane Glancy Saturday, October 22 This workshop is about Two years ago at the 8:15 a.m. Registration /Continental Breakfast building faith through Ministry of Writing 9:00 a.m. Worship writing in or for the Colloquium, author 9:45 a.m. Opening Remarks: Lauren Winner voices of Biblical char- Brent Bill and editor 10:45 a.m. Morning Workshops (choose one) acters. We’ll look at Lil Copan had a con- Writing, Faith, and Biblical Voices—Diane Glancy the voice of Dorcas, the versation about land- The Delights and Dangers of Writing About People You Know— New Testament seam- scape, Quaker faith, Lauren Winner stress, the four daugh- silence, and the Red Book Basics: The Start-Up Kit for Your Book—Lil Copan ters of Phillip in Acts Sox. Through this 21:8-9, and the voice of conversation a book Where Words Come From—Brent Bill Joseph when he was in prison in Egypt. We’ll idea was born. In May Writing About Belief: What’s the Story?—Ray Waddle find a character who has appealed to us or 2005 the book was Occasional Ministry: Poems for a Time—Mary Brown puzzled us and explore his/her voice through published with 12:15 p.m. Lunch creative writing. Paraclete Press. 1:45 p.m. Afternoon Workshops (choose one) Diane Glancy is a professor at Macalester Please join them in an Writing, Faith, and Biblical Voices—Diane Glancy informal conversation, College in St. Paul, Minnesota, where she The Delights and Dangers of Writing About People You Know— as they meet again, two teaches Native American Literature and Cre- Lauren Winner ative Writing. Among her novels are Pushing years later to talk about An Author-Editor Conversation—Lil Copan and Brent Bill the Bear: the 1838 Cherokee Trail of Tears ; Stone the book, the devel- Heart: A Novel of Sacajawea; The Closets of opment of an idea, and the steps and stages of Writing About Belief: What’s the Story?—Ray Waddle Heaven: The Story of the New Testament Seam- writing and editing and publishing that re- Occasional Ministry: Poems for a Time—Mary Brown stress, Dorcas; Designs of the Night Sky; and The sulted in the book Holy Silence: The Gift of 3:15 p.m. Refreshments /Autobiography th Quaker Spirituality. Dance Partner: a Novel of the 19 Century Ghost 4:00 p.m. Closing Remarks: Diane Glancy Dance. 7:30-9:30 p.m. Coffee House/Open Mic Writing About Belief: The Delights and Dangers of What’s the Story? The Ministry of Writing Colloquium Writing About People You Know Led by Ray Waddle “The Ministry of Writing” colloquium was endowed by individuals in honor of Tom Led by Lauren Winner Mullen at the time of his retirement as Dean of Earlham School of Religion in 1990. Tom This workshop will retired from ESR in 1997. His “Writing for the Religious Market” class, first offered over In this workshop, focus on writing about 20 years ago, was the beginning of ESR’s unique emphasis in the ministry of writing. This Lauren Winner will belief—that is, the colloquium is one way the school demonstrates its commitment to the written word as give you the skinny on wider world of faith, an important form of ministry. Previous keynote speakers for the Colloquium have been: writing about people or one’s own—with you know, address the publication in mind. 1992—William Zinsser 1997—James M. Wall 2001—Elizabeth Cox mores and ethics of The workshop will 1993—Sam Keen 1998—Noel Paul Stookey 2002—Phil Gulley memoir writing, and consider various ques- 1994—Keith Miller 1999—Will D. Campbell 2003—Scott Russell Sanders lead a few exercises in tions related to writ- 1995—Walter Wangerin 2000—Donna Jo Napoli 2004—Li-Young Lee creative disguise (that ing articles, columns, 1996—Madeleine L'Engle is, changing Great- and books for a real audience. Topics will Aunt Hilda’s name and “identifying details” include: religion writing as an act of translation without turning her into a cardboard cutout) (describing sectarian or esoteric or devotional Parking: Please turn south on Col- Lauren F. Winner, is the author of Girl Meets ideas in general terms) for the reader and writing as a way to sharpen our own thinking lege Ave. off National Road God, Mudhouse Sabbath, and Real Sex: The West. Turn west on “D” St. Truth About Chastity. She has also written for (and unearth our prejudices) about matters of into Earlham campus. Turn The New York Times Book Review, The Wash- faith. right at the stop sign, then right again into parking. ington Post Book World, Publishers Weekly, and Ray Waddle has been a religion writer and Walk to the ESR Center. . Winner has degrees from columnist for 20 years. He was religion editor Columbia and Cambridge universities and is at The Tennessean in Nashville from 1984- currently at work on her doctorate in the 2001. He is also the author of A Turbulent history of American religion. Peace: The Psalms for Our Time (Upper Room Books, 2004). His next book, Against the Grain: Unconventional Wisdom from Ecclesiastes, Book Basics: was released in August 2005 (Upper Room The Start-Up Kit for Your Book Books). Waddle has degrees from the Univer- Led by Lil Copan (morning only) sity of Oklahoma (BA, journalism) and The colloquium will be held in the ESR Center at the northeast corner of the Earlham Vanderbilt University (MA, religious studies), Campus. A finalized schedule and room assignments will be available at registration. and lives in Nashville. This workshop will cover basic questions most beginning writers Occasional Ministry: have about getting a Poems for a Time book published: from R E G I S T R A T I O N F O R M Led by Mary Brown developing an idea, re- searching the market, Name ______and submitting a book This workshop will proposal to working focus on occasional Address ______with agents, editors, poems—pieces writ- publishers, and publicists. Please bring your ten as gift or by re- ______questions and a one-paragraph summary of a quest for specific Phone ______E-mail ______book idea that you would like to pursue (or are events. Writing ex- currently pursuing). cellent occasional po- ❑ Colloquium prior to Oct. 1: $65 ❑ Colloquium after Oct. 1: $70 Lil Copan is acquisitions editor with Paraclete etry is a challenge for the poet devoted to Press. Previously she worked as literary series ❑ Colloquium: undergrad/grad student: $25 Total enclosed $ ______editor with Shaw Publishers, followed by a both art and ministry. short time with the small literary/arts press, It allows the poet to think specifically about ❑ I would like a vegetarian meal David R. Godine audience, to explore fully the effects of sound and tone, to consider how poetry moves simul- taneously within and outside of time. It also Workshop One preference (number first and second choice) Where Words Come From serves people who are hungry for lines that _____Writing, Faith, and Biblical Voices—Diane Glancy Led by Brent Bill (morning only ) speak to them in the moment. _____The Delights and Dangers of Writing About People You Know— Mary Brown teaches literature and creative Lauren Winner writing at Indiana Wesleyan University. She _____Book Basics: The Start-Up Kit for Your Book—Lil Copan Asked once about si- publishes poetry in Christian and secular lent worship, a Dela- _____Where Words Come From—Brent Bill magazines and journals from Christian Century ware Indian leader _____Writing About Belief: What’s the Story?—Ray Waddle to Artful Dodge. She has poetry and an essay named Papunehank _____Occasional Ministry: Poems for a Time—Mary Brown in a book forthcoming from Haworth Press, remarked: “I love to entitled Still Going Strong: Memoirs, Stories, feel where the words and Poems About Great Older Women. come from.” Those Workshop Two preference (number first and second choice) are the kinds of words _____Writing, Faith, and Biblical Voices—Diane Glancy that matter—the ones _____The Delights and Dangers of Writing About People You Know— that come from our Lauren Winner souls. This workshop will look at the power of _____An Author-Editor Conversation—Lil Copan and Brent Bill words that come from deep inside. _____Writing About Belief: What’s the Story?—Ray Waddle Brent Bill is the author of 15 books, including _____Occasional Ministry: Poems for a Time—Mary Brown Holy Silence: the Gift of Quaker Spirituality (Paraclete: 2005) and Imagination and Spirit: A $65 registration fee covers all colloquium events, including Friday night readings, all plenary A Contemporary Quaker Reader (Friends United sessions and workshops, Saturday continental breakfast and lunch (please indicate vegetarian Press: 2003). He has written more than 100 preference) and refreshments, and the reading/open mic Saturday night. fiction and non-fiction articles and is a writing instructor and coach. Send registration to: Writing Colloquium 2004, Rita Cummins, Earlham School of Religion, 228 College Avenue, Richmond, IN 47374. 1-800-432-1377, E-mail: [email protected]