{"id":1111,"date":"2024-08-18T16:40:15","date_gmt":"2024-08-18T20:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maryannmcguigan.com\/?p=1111"},"modified":"2024-08-18T16:40:15","modified_gmt":"2024-08-18T20:40:15","slug":"a-gathering-of-word-addicts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/a-gathering-of-word-addicts\/","title":{"rendered":"A Gathering of Word Addicts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>Vermont College of Fine Arts 2024 Postgraduate Writers Conference<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.maryannmcguigan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6161-450x214.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1105\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just back from the wonderful VCFA Writers Conference held at Champlain College in VT, sharing and learning so much about creative nonfiction with Dinty W. Moore, award-winning author and founder of Brevity, and this wildly talented group of supportive writers. Once again, the conference was brimming with informative and inspiring workshops by top-notch authors like Lee Martin, Steve Almond, Tayari Jones, Andre Dubus, and Sue Silverman, to name a few, and attended by talented and supportive writers\u2014both vets and first-timers. Nothing like being in the company of fellow word addicts to keep the juices flowing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">Pictured here are Linda Presto, Sue Repko, Char Gardner, Dinty Moore, yours truly, Rita Juster, and Robbin Farr.  <a href=\"https:\/\/vcfa.edu\/postgraduate-writers-conference\/\">https:\/\/vcfa.edu\/postgraduate-writers-conference\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vermont College of Fine Arts 2024 Postgraduate Writers Conference Just back from the wonderful VCFA Writers Conference held at Champlain College in VT, sharing and learning so much about creative nonfiction with Dinty W. Moore, award-winning author and founder of Brevity, and this wildly talented group of supportive writers. Once again, the conference was brimming&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}