“Hope is an internal matter. I strive to cultivate it in my readers.” So says award winning writer (including “The Golden Kite Award” presented by the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators) Donna Jo Napoli. Donna Jo is the keynote speaker for ESR’s annual “Ministry of Writing” colloquium. She is the author of The Magic Circle, For the Love of Venice, Song of the Magdalene, The Prince of the Pond: Otherwise Known As De Fawg Pin, and more than eleven other books for young readers and a number of books and short stories for adults. Donna Jo says that “If you're a writer, then you're infected. It’s like a disease. You have to do it.”
If you're infected with this “disease,” like she is, then you'll want to come hear Donna Jo and explore what it means to cultivate hope through your ministry of writing.
Donna Jo will give a presentation to the wider Earlham and Richmond communities on Friday evening, October 20 and speak twice to colloquium attenders on Saturday, October 21
Other writers will join Donna Jo on the program that weekend by leading workshops. Scheduled to appear are: C. Michael Curtis (senior editor of The Atlantic Monthly and editor of God:Stories), James Yerkes (John Updike and Religion: The Sense of the Sacred and the Motions of Grace), and David Yount (religion columnist for Scripps-Howard and author of five best-selling books, including Spiritual Simplicity : Simplify Your Life and Enrich Your Soul).
For more information contact:
2000 Writing Colloquium
J. Brent Bill, Director
Earlham School of Religion
228 College Avenue
Richmond, IN 47374
1-800-432-1ESR
billbr@earlham.edu