Join us for this free event:
Poetry and Prose for Peace. Workshop #3
Saturday, April 20
Workshop: 2PM - 5PM
Public Performance: 6PM - 8PM
Ages 16+
FREE
Fellowship Hall GUCC
In this culminating workshop, Peter Gould and Sean Prentiss will come together to discuss the overlap and interdependence of story and place. Participants will be invited to revise previously written pieces in order to incorporate the topics discussed, and hear how others in the community view peace through their writings.
We will close the day writing with a performance, inviting friends and neighbors to sit and listen to our stories. Any who may be inspired are invited to share their own stories, too.
Sean Prentiss is the award winning author of Finding Abbey: The Search for Edward Abbey and His Hidden Desert Grave, which won the National Outdoor Book Award, the Utah Book Award for Nonfiction, and the New Mexico-Arizona Book Award. Finding Abbey was a finalist for the Vermont and Colorado Book Awards.
He is also the author of Crosscut: Poems, a memoir-in-poems about his time as a trail builder in the Pacific Northwest.
Sean is the co-editor of two anthologies on the craft of creative nonfiction. They are The Science of Story: The Brain Behind Creative Nonfiction and The Far Edges of the Fourth Genre.
He is the co-author of two textbooks. They are Environmental and Nature Writing: A Writer's Guide and Anthology and Advanced Creative Nonfiction: A Writer's Guide and Anthology.
He is the series co-editor for Bloomsbury's Writers' Guide and Anthology textbook series, which has many books in print.
Sean serves as Backcountry Magazine's poet laureate.
Peter Gould (he/him) moved to Vermont to join the back-to-the-land generation in the 1970's, an experience he wrote about in his first novel, BURNT TOAST (Alfred A. Knopf). Since then, he has been a writer and a theater worker. His most recent book, HORSE-DRAWN YOGURT (Green Writers Press) tells true life tales about those commune years. For more than twenty years, as half of the duo Gould & Stearns, Peter performed physical comedy and story theater and taught residencies with young students, more than 3000 times in nearly every state in the USA. He continues this work solo today.
Peter founded the youth Shakespeare program, "Get Thee to the Funnery," in 1998, and continues to direct the summer camp to this day. Peter has directed nearly one hundred youth theater productions of all kinds in many places, including England and India! In 2002, Peter earned his PhD from Brandeis University and in 2009, he went on to write WRITE NAKED (Farrar Straus & Giroux), a Young-Adult novel that won the National Green Earth Book Award, a prize given each year to a book that inspires environmental activism in youthful readers. In 2016, Peter was the recipient of the Vermont Arts Council/Governor's Award for Arts Educator of the Year.
Peter continues to write books and direct plays engaged with issues of our time. He lives in Brattleboro with his wife, Vermont State Representative, and visual artist Mollie Burke. They have three children and five grandchildren and are active around Vermont in the areas of climate change, migrant workers' rights, food and farming, prison reform, restorative justice, cross-cultural communication, and always arts-in-education for young people: especially for families who need support.
