SPRING 2017 PROGRAM
Springtime is the Write Time: Inspirational Words to Open Your Mind, Create & Live By
April 29th 2017
Best Western, Waterbury
45 Blush Hill Rd
Waterbury, VT 05676
$55 members
$60 non member
Schedule at a glance
9:00-9:30 - Check-in/Registration
9:45-10:45 - Joni Cole
10:45-11:00 - Break
11:00-12:00 - Julie McGrath
12:00-1:00 - Lunch
1:00-1:30 - LVW Panel
1:45-2:45 - Joe Citro
Joni Cole
Good Naked: Wit, Wisdom, and Happy Endings
The time has come to expose the creative process in all its glory, celebrate the value of our stories, and debunk the myth of the suffering artist. To that end, join acclaimed author and writing instructor Joni B. Cole as she shares the insights and humor of her new book Good Naked: Reflections on How to Write More, Write Better and Be Happier (“joyful, tough-minded, and heartening,” Cynthia Huntington, National Book Award finalist). The presentation will be followed by a quickie workshop that invites participants to uncover their own creative potential. Come. Have fun. Write on!
Joni B. Cole is the author of the new release Good Naked: Reflections on How to Write More, Write Better, and Be Happier (“...Cole...disabuses common misconceptions of how one should think, act, and be as a writer, exchanging those myths for ideas that feed creativity and productivity. Essentially, one doesn’t have to suffer to be a genuine artist.”—Library Journal.) Joni is also the author of the acclaimed book on writing Toxic Feedback: Helping Writers Survive and Thrive (“I can’t imagine a better guide to [writing’s] rewards and perils than this fine book,” American Book Review), and Another Bad-Dog Book: Essays on Life, Love, and Neurotic Human Behavior (“Funny, smart, original, and, just to keep us on our toes, occasionally heartbreaking”—Gina Barreca, syndicated columnist). Joni teaches in the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program at Dartmouth College, serves on the creative writing faculty of the New Hampshire Institute of Art, and is founder of the Writer’s Center of White River Junction, Vermont. She is also a contributor to The Writer magazine. Joni has been nominated for both a Pushcart Prize and USA Fellowship Award. For more information: www.jonibcole.com
Julie McGrath
The Right Time is Right Now, 6 Questions to Help You Let Go of the Excuses and Change Your Life Today
Julie will take you through 6 KEY questions to help you let go of all those excuses that get in your way and prevent you from changing your life. With her joy filled attitude and high energy, she will inspire you to tackle the obstacles and put those dreams and goals into action immediately!
Julie McGrath, LICSW is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker who has worked in the mental health field for the past 17 years. She is currently the director of a crisis team in a hospital emergency department north of Boston, connected to the world-renowned Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. She manages a busy department of crisis clinicians, arranges for the care and placement of the mental health and/or substance-abusing patient, and advocates for patients’ needs within the larger systems throughout the state.
Through her activities as a social worker, she has created Julie McGrath Seminars, a public speaking business that serves human services professionals, nurses, physicians, social workers, and counselors. She speaks regularly to groups of up to 300 people on such topics such as job stress, burnout, self-care, working with difficult people, time management, and setting boundaries. In these workshops, Julie brilliantly combines work and home life to inspire her participants to seek the good life professionally and personally. That “good life” involves setting and achieving goals, and practicing effective time management so life includes work and play time, as well as appropriate amounts of rest and relaxation.
Joe Citro
Vermont Writing From the Dark Side
Joe Citro's work has focused on dark and occasionally disturbing Vermont landscapes more traditionally portrayed with sunny skies above quaint pristine villages. His presentations will reflect on his adventures writing about "The Dark Side" including his research, his publishers, and his readers.. And hope "Better Late than Never" still applies…
Joseph A. Citro, award-winning author, public radio commentator, and expert on New England peculiarities, has been part of the Vermont writing scene since his first novel, Shadow Child, came out in 1987. Today, some fifteen books later, he is still chronicling local weirdness, waiting for film adaptations of his books, preparing his next manuscript, and studying for finals.
