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Catholic Writers' Conference LIVE, Aug. 4-6
King of Prussia, PA
The train from NYC to Philly is dirt cheap, and shuttles are available to the conference site. Registration also gives you FREE access to the CMN Trade Show! Two phenomenal events, side-by-side, for one price. One-day admissions, student pricing and comps for priests and religious available. For more information, click here.
Check out this schedule of events! Bring your manuscripts, bring your questions, bring your Christmas list [the shopping at the trade show is not to be missed]. Come and meet Catholic celebrities and authors, see the latest Catholic media, books, art and products. Hear live music, listen to great talks, meet the people whose books you love. Come and be a part of the family!
Schedule of Events
Key:
(M)= Moderator
* = Speaker tentative
Wednesday, August 4th, 2010
7:30-8:00AM Rosary with CMN, Radisson Independence Ballroom
8:00-9:00AM Mass with CMN, Radisson Independence Ballroom
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Welcome and Opening - CWG Who are We and What Do We Do? Lewis/Fabian/Davidson, GS1
10:15 AM - 11:15 AM
• Marketing Tips for Authors—Lisa Wheeler, GS1
• How to Create Evil Characters if You're a Good Catholic—Regina Doman, GS8
• Your Manuscript is Complete, Now What? —Donna-Marie Cooper O'Boyle, GS9
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
• Making the Most of Your Blog, Lisa Hendy, Donna-Marie Cooper O’Boyle, Mark Shea, Karina Fabian (M), Jimmy Akin*, GS1
• Writing a Winning Proposal—Michelle Buckman, GS8
• Panel - Dealing with the Media (Press releases, interviews and other things that make authors nervous) – Lisa Wheeler, Jeff Gardner(M), Lynn Goodwin, Nick Thomm—GS9
12:30 PM 1:30 PM
lunch break
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
• Authors and New Media—Lisa Hendey, GS1
• Time Management for a Busy Writer—Karina Fabian, GS8
• Panel - Catholic fiction—Michelle Buckman, Elena Maria Vidal, Regina Doman, Ellen Hrkach (M), John Desjarlais, GS9
2:45 PM - 3:45 PM
• Why Can't We Just Hit'em Over the Head? Fostering the Christian Imagination with Children's Books—Heidi Bratton, GS1
• Tips for Would-Be Authors—Claudia Volkman, Donna-Marie Cooper O'Boyle, GS8
• Panel - Marketing Brainstorm (more ideas to promote your work) —Karina Fabian, Lisa Wheeler, Lisa Hendey, Joe Wetterling (M) GS9
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
• How the faith tradition, culture, folklore and history influences story writing—Arthur Cola, GS1
• Journaling: Why It's Good for an Author—Lynn Goodwin, GS8
• Catholic Historical Fiction: Why We Need It—Elena Maria Vidal, GS9
5:15 PM 6:15 PM
• How to Pitch Your Book—Ann Margaret Lewis, Karina Fabian, GS1
• Working with an Editor—Regina Doman, GS8
• Panel - Writing Books that Teach Our Faith—Margot Davidson, Donna-Marie Cooper O'Boyle, Lisa Hendey, Lisa Mladinich, Joe Wetterling (M), GS9
6:30 PM 8:00 PM
• CMN Author’s Reception, Radisson Ballroom
8:15 PM 10:30 PM
• CWG Wii Bowling Hang Out Meet & Greet – Chumley’s Sports Bar in the Radisson (cash bar)
Thursday, August 5th, 2010
7:00-7:30AM Rosary with CMN, Radisson Independence Ballroom
7:30-8:30AM Mass with CMN, Radisson Independence Ballroom
8:45-10:00AM CMN Breakfast, Radisson Grand Ballroom
10:15 AM 11:15 AM
• Three Philosophies of Writing: Rowling, Meyer, and Pullman—Joe Wetterling, GS1
• The Right Details—Michelle Buckman, GS8
• Pitch sessions—Regina Doman, Andrew Schmiedicke, Claudia Volkman, Tom Wehner, Breakout Rooms C-F
• Panel - Writing for Magazines—Jeff Gardner, Margot Davidson (M), Lisa Hendey, Melanie Rigney, Arthur Cola, GS9
11:30AM – 12:45 PM
Lunch Break
1:00 PM- 1:15PM – Opening Remarks, Alan Napleton, and Ann Lewis
1:15 PM - 2:15 PM – Michelle Buckman: The wonder of Catholicism and expressing that Catholicism in fiction – keynote, GS1
2:15 PM - 3:00 PM
Awards ceremony – Seal of Approval Winners and the Catholic Arts and Letters Award for Excellence in Achievement. Recipient: Rick Hinshaw, Long Island Catholic GS1
3:15 PM 4:15 PM
• Journalists as Evangelists—Rick Hinshaw, Tom Wehner, Jeff Gardner (M), GS1
• What a Character: Creating Fictional People – John Desjarlais, GS8
• Dealing with Negative Feedback— Susie Lloyd, GS9
4:30 AM - 6:00 PM
• Free Time at Trade Show
6:30 PM 9:00 PM
• CMN Entertainment Reception, Radisson Grand Ballroom
Friday, August 6th, 2010
7:30-8:00AM Rosary with CMN, Radisson Grand Ballroom
8:00-9:00AM Mass with CMN, Radisson Grand Ballroom
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
• Publishers Panel: Hear What’s Happening in the Industry—Regina Doman, John Barger*, Volkman (M), Todd Aglialoro, GS1
• What makes for good Catholic Poetry? —John Desjarlais, GS8
• Critique Workshop—Arthur Powers, Breakout Room D
• Editing Your Manuscript—Melanie Rigney, GS9
10:15 AM - 11:15 AM
• Finding an Agent—John Desjarlais, GS1
• Choosing between Self-Publishing and Going with a Publisher—Claudia Volkman, GS8
• Critique Workshop cont.—Arthur Powers, Breakout Room D
11:30 AM - 1:15 PM
Lunch Break
12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
• Idea Generation Workshop—Karina Fabian, GS1
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
• Creativity Corner: Remember why you want to be a writer—Melanie Rigney, GS8
• Panel: Show Don't Tell (Fiction mechanics) —Michelle Buckman, Ann Margaret Lewis, Arthur Powers, GS9
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM
• Closing Remarks—Ann Margaret Lewis, Karina Fabian & Margot Davidson GS1
Friday, July 23, 2010
Monday, July 19, 2010
Take Our Survey!
Hi Everyone,
Please take a few minutes to fill out our brief survey as soon as possible. We'll be collecting data for a short period only, and will use your responses to help us set an agenda for our first member meeting this fall.
Feel free to pass the link along to any interested friends and colleagues.
There's so much we can do together. Thanks for your prayers and your participation. Keep the Faith and keep writing!
Lisa, Peggy, Rick and Alex
Please take a few minutes to fill out our brief survey as soon as possible. We'll be collecting data for a short period only, and will use your responses to help us set an agenda for our first member meeting this fall.
Feel free to pass the link along to any interested friends and colleagues.
There's so much we can do together. Thanks for your prayers and your participation. Keep the Faith and keep writing!
Lisa, Peggy, Rick and Alex
Thursday, July 8, 2010
Moving Forward
Hi Everyone,
Thank you SO much for your ongoing support of CWOLI. We prepared a survey to send out to you all, but my email distribution will not handle so many names! God is so good. We'll have to hire a service to distribute our mail in the future, so we're working on that. We'll keep you posted.
Also, our event is solidly in the black, with a few hundred left over for future use and over $500 raised for Catholic Relief Services. Thank you again for your kind, loving support of our raffle and the freewill donations for Kellenberg Consortium CD's. You folks are truly the best.
Our first event still shines in memory and fuels our momentum forward. We keep reminiscing about how wonderful our attendees were. You brought your hearts and souls to our event and lifted us all up with your faith and enthusiasm. Our speakers all knocked it right out of the park, too. Wow! I was just awed by them. To all of you who participated, please know that we are acutely aware that we could not have done any of this without your willingness to join in wholeheartedly and prayerfully. Thank you again.
Here are a few more blog posts from some of you wonderful folks who attended:
Bioethicist and pro-life blogger, Dr. Gerard Nadal:
"Among Women"'s own Pat Gohn, the gifted speaker noted by Elizabeth Scalia at First Things:
http://amongwomenpodcast.blogspot.com/2010/06/happy-recap-catholic-writers-of-long.html
Thank you SO much for your ongoing support of CWOLI. We prepared a survey to send out to you all, but my email distribution will not handle so many names! God is so good. We'll have to hire a service to distribute our mail in the future, so we're working on that. We'll keep you posted.
Also, our event is solidly in the black, with a few hundred left over for future use and over $500 raised for Catholic Relief Services. Thank you again for your kind, loving support of our raffle and the freewill donations for Kellenberg Consortium CD's. You folks are truly the best.
Our first event still shines in memory and fuels our momentum forward. We keep reminiscing about how wonderful our attendees were. You brought your hearts and souls to our event and lifted us all up with your faith and enthusiasm. Our speakers all knocked it right out of the park, too. Wow! I was just awed by them. To all of you who participated, please know that we are acutely aware that we could not have done any of this without your willingness to join in wholeheartedly and prayerfully. Thank you again.
Here are a few more blog posts from some of you wonderful folks who attended:
Bioethicist and pro-life blogger, Dr. Gerard Nadal:
"Among Women"'s own Pat Gohn, the gifted speaker noted by Elizabeth Scalia at First Things:
http://amongwomenpodcast.blogspot.com/2010/06/happy-recap-catholic-writers-of-long.html
Leticia Velasquez, award-winning pro-life blogger and journalist:
http://cause-of-our-joy.blogspot.com/2010/06/word-made-flesh.html
God bless you all, and know that you are in our prayers. Pray for us, too, okay?
God bless you all, and know that you are in our prayers. Pray for us, too, okay?
Thursday, June 24, 2010
The Long Island Catholic write-up by Alice Gunther
Check out the article on our event! Thanks to all of you who attended, those who prayed for us, and all of you who supported us by spreading the word, assisting us financially or wishing us well. God bless you!
http://www.licatholic.org/news/2010/06/062310/catholicWriters.html
Here's the feature from NY Net TV's coverage of our event: http://netny.net/currents/video/stories/using-media-to-evangelize-62210/
and Elizabeth Scalia's [a.k.a. The Anchoress] blog post: http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/theanchoress/2010/06/21/dynamic-speaker-and-2-great-books/
We'll be posting a survey soon, to get everyone's feedback on the event and hopes for the future of our group. Stay tuned, and make sure I have your email address, okay? Send it directly to me at lisamladinich@optonline.net.
May Our Lord forever be honored in all we do in His Holy Name, make up for where we lack, encourage us when we are suffering and connect us joyfully and fruitfully in His Body as Church and family. Love to you all!
http://www.licatholic.org/news/2010/06/062310/catholicWriters.html
Here's the feature from NY Net TV's coverage of our event: http://netny.net/currents/video/stories/using-media-to-evangelize-62210/
and Elizabeth Scalia's [a.k.a. The Anchoress] blog post: http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/theanchoress/2010/06/21/dynamic-speaker-and-2-great-books/
We'll be posting a survey soon, to get everyone's feedback on the event and hopes for the future of our group. Stay tuned, and make sure I have your email address, okay? Send it directly to me at lisamladinich@optonline.net.
May Our Lord forever be honored in all we do in His Holy Name, make up for where we lack, encourage us when we are suffering and connect us joyfully and fruitfully in His Body as Church and family. Love to you all!
Monday, June 21, 2010
Father Fink's Homily and Our Big Event!
Dear Friends,
We are just soaring after a successful first conference. Thank you all so much for your generosity in attending and sharing the day with us in the midst of so many other commitments and challenges in all your lives. We are beyond grateful for your presence at the conference, and for your enthusiasm, which inspired us greatly. As our gift to you, I'd like to share the text of Msgr. Charles Fink's homily so you can enjoy it yet again. For those of you who were not able to join us, we will have all the recorded talks for sale very soon, including the homily and Msgr. Peter Vaccari's talk [which he chose not to give so that Pat Gohn could expand her presentation]. Those who registered for the conference will get a reduced price on purchasing one or all of them. Pat Gohn graciously recorded everything for us and is hoping to do a full recording of Fr. Peter's talk, as well. So, here is the homily by our beloved friend and mentor, Msgr. Charles Fink. Enjoy, and God bless you all! We'll be in touch!
The first chapter of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Silmarillion, the prequel to The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, bears a striking resemblance to the opening chapter of the Book of Genesis and has some affinity to the Prologue of John’s Gospel. It’s a magnificent portrayal of creation, but the key instrument in fashioning the world is not the Word, as in John’s Prologue, rather music. God, Illuvitar in Tolkien’s telling, proposes a musical theme to the angels and invites them to weave harmonies of their own to embellish the original theme. Unbeknown to them, the harmonies they weave, or the disharmonies in the case of Melkor, the Satanic angel, turn out to be musical renderings of realities played out in the history of the material world: They are, in effect, blueprints and foreshadowings of creation’s future. The things that stand out in Tolkien’s creation myth are God’s absolute mastery over all the music, and, therefore, all creation, and His patience and generosity in permitting lesser beings than Himself to share in the work of creation.
Later in life, in a very different genre, a short story called “Leaf by Niggle”, Tolkien returned to the theme of how beings infinitely less than God are enlisted by Him to participate in the making of things they have little or no idea they are contributing to. Here, however, the central image is not music but art, and the art doesn’t figure in the making of the material world but rather the Kingdom of Heaven.
Niggle is an amateur painter, obsessed with painting pictures of trees, and leaves in particular, with which he gets so hung up that he never finishes his work. He has a vague sense of what he’s striving to put on canvas but seems never to be able quite to achieve it. In the end, he dies and, after passing through a rather purgatorial rehab, is taken to a country side where he is free to garden and bicycle around, enjoying the scenery. One day he literally falls off his bicycle in astonishment at what he sees. It’s the trees and leaves and scenery he’d been struggling all those years to paint, now perfectly realized right before his eyes. The voice of one of the overseers of this splendid landscape is heard to say that it’s been named “Niggle’s Parish by the Bay” and that Niggle’s “picture” has proven a wonderful refreshment for many a person continuing his journey to the Shepherd in the distant hills.
We’re here today to celebrate the Word of God and the Word made flesh, to be enlightened and nourished, comforted and challenged by that Word, to become what we are called to be, namely little words, radiating the light of the one big Word, through our lives, our prayers, our service, and, yes, our own miniscule words. And what I want to suggest is that, just like Tolkien’s angels and humble little Niggle, we have been enlisted by God to participate in the creation of a great work. Our work may not be great, either in terms of value or scope, but that doesn’t matter. Our imperfect work will find its place in God’s completed masterpiece.
Cardinal Newman, soon to be beatified, said something similar:
God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed
some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my
mission—I may never know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the
next. Somehow I am necessary for His purposes, as necessary in my
place as an Archangel in his—if, indeed, I fail, He can raise another,
as He could make stones children of Abraham. Yet I have a part in this
great work. I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons.
He has not created me for naught. I shall do good; I shall do His work.
I shall be an angel of peace, a preacher of truth in my own place, while
not intending it, if I do but keep His commandments, and serve Him in
my calling.
The angels in Tolkien’s story of creation had no idea initially that their music had any purpose beyond being a harmonic counterpoint to God’s great theme. Only later did God show them how their harmonies (and disharmonies) were played out in a different key, so to speak, in creation. Niggle never dreamed his trees and leaves had any lasting value, that they might have a permanent and essential part to play in some much greater scheme of things. He only discovered their true purpose after he died and had passed through the initial stage of his purgatory. Newman writes, “I have my mission—I may never know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next,” meaning, among other things, I take it, that I may never understand in this life the full significance of what I do and how it contributes to the Kingdom of God, but I will understand when faith gives way to vision, and I see God face to face and in Him see all things as they really are, in all their interconnectedness and in their true meaning and purpose.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God, and the Word became flesh and dwelt among us. You and I are made in the image and likeness of that Word, each of us, in his or her own right, a little word, speaking and writing yet smaller words. But the purpose of all words, we as individuals, and the words we speak and write, is to show forth the splendor of the one great Word, which is Christ. Mother Teresa of Calcutta once said, “Words that do not shed the light of Christ only serve to deepen the darkness.” Only one steeped in or enamored of darkness could possibly see our service to the Word and to the Light as an unnatural constraint. The Word we serve, the Light we spread, is infinite in its glory and grandeur. The only limits to the variety of ways we can communicate it are truth, beauty, and goodness, and these are not limits at all.
Whether the medium in which we work is music, art, or the written word, for that matter, whether it’s mothering, medicine, plumbing, or collecting garbage, we are all part of a great story, and we all have an essential assigned role to play. We wouldn’t exist otherwise. It’s not important that we comprehend our place in the scheme of things perfectly, only that, as best we can, we serve the Word and radiate His Light, performing our assigned task as our way of serving, helping others along the way, trusting that our few notes, or leaves, or words will be taken up by the Master Musician, Artist, Author, and woven into a masterpiece the likes of which no eye has seen, no ear heard, nor the mind of any, save God, ever even imagined.
Praise God for His Word. Praise the Word made flesh. Praise the Word made known in scripture and given to us in the Eucharist. Praise Him for counting us worthy to share in His wonderful plan of creation and redemption. God keep us true to our calling, the service of the Word made flesh.
Msgr. Charles Fink
Director of Spiritual Formation
Seminary of the Immaculate Conception
Huntington, NY
We are just soaring after a successful first conference. Thank you all so much for your generosity in attending and sharing the day with us in the midst of so many other commitments and challenges in all your lives. We are beyond grateful for your presence at the conference, and for your enthusiasm, which inspired us greatly. As our gift to you, I'd like to share the text of Msgr. Charles Fink's homily so you can enjoy it yet again. For those of you who were not able to join us, we will have all the recorded talks for sale very soon, including the homily and Msgr. Peter Vaccari's talk [which he chose not to give so that Pat Gohn could expand her presentation]. Those who registered for the conference will get a reduced price on purchasing one or all of them. Pat Gohn graciously recorded everything for us and is hoping to do a full recording of Fr. Peter's talk, as well. So, here is the homily by our beloved friend and mentor, Msgr. Charles Fink. Enjoy, and God bless you all! We'll be in touch!
Homily at Catholic Writer’s Mass
June 19, 2010, Seminary of the Immaculate Conception
Huntington, NY 11743
Isaiah 55:6-11 1 John 1:5-7 John 1:1-5, 14-16
June 19, 2010, Seminary of the Immaculate Conception
Huntington, NY 11743
Isaiah 55:6-11 1 John 1:5-7 John 1:1-5, 14-16
The first chapter of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Silmarillion, the prequel to The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, bears a striking resemblance to the opening chapter of the Book of Genesis and has some affinity to the Prologue of John’s Gospel. It’s a magnificent portrayal of creation, but the key instrument in fashioning the world is not the Word, as in John’s Prologue, rather music. God, Illuvitar in Tolkien’s telling, proposes a musical theme to the angels and invites them to weave harmonies of their own to embellish the original theme. Unbeknown to them, the harmonies they weave, or the disharmonies in the case of Melkor, the Satanic angel, turn out to be musical renderings of realities played out in the history of the material world: They are, in effect, blueprints and foreshadowings of creation’s future. The things that stand out in Tolkien’s creation myth are God’s absolute mastery over all the music, and, therefore, all creation, and His patience and generosity in permitting lesser beings than Himself to share in the work of creation.
Later in life, in a very different genre, a short story called “Leaf by Niggle”, Tolkien returned to the theme of how beings infinitely less than God are enlisted by Him to participate in the making of things they have little or no idea they are contributing to. Here, however, the central image is not music but art, and the art doesn’t figure in the making of the material world but rather the Kingdom of Heaven.
Niggle is an amateur painter, obsessed with painting pictures of trees, and leaves in particular, with which he gets so hung up that he never finishes his work. He has a vague sense of what he’s striving to put on canvas but seems never to be able quite to achieve it. In the end, he dies and, after passing through a rather purgatorial rehab, is taken to a country side where he is free to garden and bicycle around, enjoying the scenery. One day he literally falls off his bicycle in astonishment at what he sees. It’s the trees and leaves and scenery he’d been struggling all those years to paint, now perfectly realized right before his eyes. The voice of one of the overseers of this splendid landscape is heard to say that it’s been named “Niggle’s Parish by the Bay” and that Niggle’s “picture” has proven a wonderful refreshment for many a person continuing his journey to the Shepherd in the distant hills.
We’re here today to celebrate the Word of God and the Word made flesh, to be enlightened and nourished, comforted and challenged by that Word, to become what we are called to be, namely little words, radiating the light of the one big Word, through our lives, our prayers, our service, and, yes, our own miniscule words. And what I want to suggest is that, just like Tolkien’s angels and humble little Niggle, we have been enlisted by God to participate in the creation of a great work. Our work may not be great, either in terms of value or scope, but that doesn’t matter. Our imperfect work will find its place in God’s completed masterpiece.
Cardinal Newman, soon to be beatified, said something similar:
God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed
some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my
mission—I may never know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the
next. Somehow I am necessary for His purposes, as necessary in my
place as an Archangel in his—if, indeed, I fail, He can raise another,
as He could make stones children of Abraham. Yet I have a part in this
great work. I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons.
He has not created me for naught. I shall do good; I shall do His work.
I shall be an angel of peace, a preacher of truth in my own place, while
not intending it, if I do but keep His commandments, and serve Him in
my calling.
The angels in Tolkien’s story of creation had no idea initially that their music had any purpose beyond being a harmonic counterpoint to God’s great theme. Only later did God show them how their harmonies (and disharmonies) were played out in a different key, so to speak, in creation. Niggle never dreamed his trees and leaves had any lasting value, that they might have a permanent and essential part to play in some much greater scheme of things. He only discovered their true purpose after he died and had passed through the initial stage of his purgatory. Newman writes, “I have my mission—I may never know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next,” meaning, among other things, I take it, that I may never understand in this life the full significance of what I do and how it contributes to the Kingdom of God, but I will understand when faith gives way to vision, and I see God face to face and in Him see all things as they really are, in all their interconnectedness and in their true meaning and purpose.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God, and the Word became flesh and dwelt among us. You and I are made in the image and likeness of that Word, each of us, in his or her own right, a little word, speaking and writing yet smaller words. But the purpose of all words, we as individuals, and the words we speak and write, is to show forth the splendor of the one great Word, which is Christ. Mother Teresa of Calcutta once said, “Words that do not shed the light of Christ only serve to deepen the darkness.” Only one steeped in or enamored of darkness could possibly see our service to the Word and to the Light as an unnatural constraint. The Word we serve, the Light we spread, is infinite in its glory and grandeur. The only limits to the variety of ways we can communicate it are truth, beauty, and goodness, and these are not limits at all.
Whether the medium in which we work is music, art, or the written word, for that matter, whether it’s mothering, medicine, plumbing, or collecting garbage, we are all part of a great story, and we all have an essential assigned role to play. We wouldn’t exist otherwise. It’s not important that we comprehend our place in the scheme of things perfectly, only that, as best we can, we serve the Word and radiate His Light, performing our assigned task as our way of serving, helping others along the way, trusting that our few notes, or leaves, or words will be taken up by the Master Musician, Artist, Author, and woven into a masterpiece the likes of which no eye has seen, no ear heard, nor the mind of any, save God, ever even imagined.
Praise God for His Word. Praise the Word made flesh. Praise the Word made known in scripture and given to us in the Eucharist. Praise Him for counting us worthy to share in His wonderful plan of creation and redemption. God keep us true to our calling, the service of the Word made flesh.
Msgr. Charles Fink
Director of Spiritual Formation
Seminary of the Immaculate Conception
Huntington, NY
Sunday, May 2, 2010
The Word Made Flesh: A Day for Catholic Writers
CONTACT: Lisa Mladinich
631-421-6119
lisamladinich@optonline.net
For Immediate Release
Catholic Writers of Long Island Launches First Conference
Catholic Writers of Long Island will hold its first full-day conference at the Seminary of the Immaculate Conception, 440 West Neck Road, Huntington, New York, on Saturday, June 19th, 2010 from 8:45am-5pm, entitled, “The Word Made Flesh: A Day of Encouragement and Enrichment for Catholic Writers.” All are welcome, including nursing mothers with their babies.
Our keynote speaker, Rick Hinshaw, editor of the Long Island Catholic, will receive the Catholic Writers’ Guild’s “Lily” award for Meritorious Achievement in Catholic Arts and Letters. Signed copies of good Catholic books and other prizes will be raffled off and proceeds will benefit Catholic Relief Services.
Other speakers include: award-winning author and publisher, Josephine Nobisso; author and composer, Alexander J. Basile; retreat leader and host of “Among Women” podcast, Pat Gohn; and author and seminary rector, Msgr. Peter Vaccari. Msgr. Charles Fink, Director of Spiritual Formation for the seminary, will be the homilist.
The event emphasizes connectedness in the Body of Christ and supports professional networking through: name tags; three networking breaks with refreshments; and a special bonus – early-bird registrants will have bios and contact information listed in ¼-page sections in the program, an added value of $15. Mass, Rosary, and buffet lunch are included. Tickets before June 1st: $25 for adult early-birds and $17 for student early-birds. From June 1st-June 15th, tickets: $35 for adults and $25 for students. Meal head-count closes June 15th. Walk-ins: $45 for adults and $35 for students.
Register at: http://materetmagistramagazine.org/store/ and click on the “Catholic Writers of Long Island” link in the left sidebar under "Important Links." Add your 100-word [max] bio in the “comments” section, or mail check and typed bio to: mater et magistra, P.O. Box 251, Hamlin, PA 18427 and put “LI Writers” in notes section. For more information, see Facebook page for “Catholic Writers of Long Island” or contact chapter president, Lisa Mladinich, at lisamladinich@optonline.net
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[Media kit and photos are available upon request]
631-421-6119
lisamladinich@optonline.net
For Immediate Release
Catholic Writers of Long Island Launches First Conference
Catholic Writers of Long Island will hold its first full-day conference at the Seminary of the Immaculate Conception, 440 West Neck Road, Huntington, New York, on Saturday, June 19th, 2010 from 8:45am-5pm, entitled, “The Word Made Flesh: A Day of Encouragement and Enrichment for Catholic Writers.” All are welcome, including nursing mothers with their babies.
Our keynote speaker, Rick Hinshaw, editor of the Long Island Catholic, will receive the Catholic Writers’ Guild’s “Lily” award for Meritorious Achievement in Catholic Arts and Letters. Signed copies of good Catholic books and other prizes will be raffled off and proceeds will benefit Catholic Relief Services.
Other speakers include: award-winning author and publisher, Josephine Nobisso; author and composer, Alexander J. Basile; retreat leader and host of “Among Women” podcast, Pat Gohn; and author and seminary rector, Msgr. Peter Vaccari. Msgr. Charles Fink, Director of Spiritual Formation for the seminary, will be the homilist.
The event emphasizes connectedness in the Body of Christ and supports professional networking through: name tags; three networking breaks with refreshments; and a special bonus – early-bird registrants will have bios and contact information listed in ¼-page sections in the program, an added value of $15. Mass, Rosary, and buffet lunch are included. Tickets before June 1st: $25 for adult early-birds and $17 for student early-birds. From June 1st-June 15th, tickets: $35 for adults and $25 for students. Meal head-count closes June 15th. Walk-ins: $45 for adults and $35 for students.
Register at: http://materetmagistramagazine.org/store/ and click on the “Catholic Writers of Long Island” link in the left sidebar under "Important Links." Add your 100-word [max] bio in the “comments” section, or mail check and typed bio to: mater et magistra, P.O. Box 251, Hamlin, PA 18427 and put “LI Writers” in notes section. For more information, see Facebook page for “Catholic Writers of Long Island” or contact chapter president, Lisa Mladinich, at lisamladinich@optonline.net
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[Media kit and photos are available upon request]
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