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PDF Brochure C O L L O Q U I U M U I U Q O L L O C 4,500/6-05 A N A N N U A L A U N N A N A 765-983-1423 or1-800-432-1377 Richmond, Indiana47374 228 CollegeAvenue Earlham School of M inistry The of Winner Religion Lauren Lauren Winner Lauren Diane Glancy and Glancy Diane FEATURED SPEAKERS: FEATURED Glancy INDIANA Diane RICHMOND in 2005 OCTOBER 21 & 22 & 21 OCTOBER Non-Profit Org. Alexandria, IN Permit No. 7 No. Permit U.S. Postage PAID T H E M I N I S T R Y O F W R I T I N G N I T I R W F O Y R T S I N I M E H T The Ministry of Writing A N A N N U A L C O L L O Q U I U M October 21-22, 2005 F E A T U R E D S P E A K E R S For both of our featured speakers this year, turn—this time to Christianity and more specifi- writing has been a way to reconcile, and perhaps cally the Anglican Church. integrate, disparate elements of life and faith. As one interviewer put it, Lauren Winner, in For Diane Glancy, who was raised by a Chero- her first twenty-six years, “traveled enough spiri- kee father and a mother of German-English de- tually, intellectually, and geographically to fill scent, writing has been a way of listening to the several lifetimes.” Although Winner saw nothing different voices that inhabit her being. “We carry especially remarkable about her own journey, she more than we realize . We carry our ancestors, did feel a need to write. “It is a somewhat compli- not in the sense of ghosts, but in the sense of the past cated thing to do—to try, after a religious conver- being with us. We carry the burden or the weight sion, to put the pieces of one’s life and self back of glory…of everything that has come before.” together,” Winner said. “Like many people, I find Glancy carries the stories and voices of her that writing helps me make sense of my own Christian faith as well as the rich Cherokee heritage thoughts. So I began scribbling things down.” that came to her through her father. In her novels, Those scribblings eventually led to her first book— plays, essays, and poems, Glancy has worked on Girl Meets God: On the Path to a Spiritual Life— recovering and empowering those voices that have which established her as a vital new voice in been marginalized. In her novels, plays, essays, and contemporary dialogues concerning religion and poems, she celebrates the stories of Biblical women, spirituality. of Native Americans, and of the land itself. If Both of this year’s featured speakers come with writing has been, for Glancy, a listening way, a Diane Glancy Lauren Winner a long list of accomplishments. Lauren Winner has gathering of voices, it has also been a way of living already followed her memoir with two more well- into a strong and gathered voice. As she puts it, “I think that’s the work we do all our lives: bringing received books: Mudhouse Sabbath and Real Sex: The Naked Truth About Chastity. She has together the fragments and trying to make some cohesive wholeness out of them.” appeared on PBS’s Religion & Ethics Newsweekly and has written for The New York Times Book Lauren Winner grew up in Charlottesville, Virginia. Her father was a secular Jew, her mother Review, The Washington Post Book World, Publishers Weekly, and Christianity Today. Diane a lapsed southern Baptist. While in high school she began attending a reform Jewish synagogue. Glancy, has published eight novels, four short story collections, three books of essays, and ten In her freshman year at Columbia University, after years of serious study and consideration, she volumes of poetry. Her many accolades include two awards from the National Endowment for immersed herself in the Orthodox Jewish community. Later, after a low ebb in her spiritual life, the Arts. Her most recent books include In Between Places (essays), Primer of the Obsolete (poems), she was studying at Cambridge University in England when her faith journey took a different and Stone Heart: A Novel of Sacajawea. 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.
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