The cake says it all. After a final reading on Sunday night, the 16th annual VCFA Postgraduate Writer's Conference came to a close. More than 80 faculty and participants bid each other farewell. With cameras flashing, promises to stay in touch, and new writing partnerships formed, it was Bon Voyage to all the writers.
Sixteen years ago, Vermont College set out to create a new kind of summer immersion for experienced writers, with MFAs or equivalent preparation. Today, the annual Postgraduate Writers' Conference thrives as a haven for serious, emerging practitioners seeking to connect and recharge, and lift their process and craft to new levels.
"This program awakened the activist spirit in me. I am more aware and involved in making work engaged in a discourse about social issues which affect the earth and its inhabitants.I am a new person. I can never go back to the old way of looking at art or the world again."