{"id":1434,"date":"2025-08-10T01:34:54","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T01:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/?p=1434"},"modified":"2025-09-08T01:35:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T01:35:22","slug":"another-inspiring-conference-at-vcfa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/another-inspiring-conference-at-vcfa\/","title":{"rendered":"Another inspiring conference at VCFA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just got back from the<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/vcfa.edu\/postgraduate-writers-conference\/\">Vermont College of Fine Arts Postgraduate Writers\u2019 Conference<\/a>. I was delighted to have the chance to work with<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonjalivingston.com\/\">Sonja Livingston<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/a>and the gifted writers in her creative nonfiction workshop. Over the years, the conference has become the place where I recharge\u2014and retool. It offers the chance to learn from\u2014and be supported by\u2014authors (<em>and<\/em><span>\u00a0<\/span>participants) whose work has earned praise and respect. This year that roster included Lee Martin, Patricia Smith, Andre Dubus, Sue William Silverman, Sonja, and many more\u2014all gifted, generous with their time and attention, and fun to be around.<\/p>\n<p>The conference was held at Champlain College in Burlington again, and it was packed, as usual, with workshop meetings, craft talks, faculty readings\u2014and participant readings as well. It was stimulating, fun, rigorous and more than a little exhausting, but so worth it. I can\u2019t wait to go back next year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just got back from the\u00a0Vermont College of Fine Arts Postgraduate Writers\u2019 Conference. I was delighted to have the chance to work with\u00a0Sonja Livingston\u00a0and the gifted writers in her creative nonfiction workshop. Over the years, the conference has become the place where I recharge\u2014and retool. It offers the chance to learn from\u2014and be supported by\u2014authors&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434","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=1434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1435,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434\/revisions\/1435"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}