{"id":151,"date":"2017-03-15T18:32:44","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T18:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/academic-news\/?p=151"},"modified":"2017-03-24T17:13:43","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T17:13:43","slug":"two-williston-students-head-to-prestigious-writers-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/academic-news\/2017\/03\/15\/two-williston-students-head-to-prestigious-writers-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Williston Students Head to Prestigious Writers Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sophia Schaefer ’18 will be attending the New England Young Writers Conference for the second year in a row.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sophia Schaefer ’18 and Harrison Winrow ’18 have been accepted to the prestigious\u00a0New England Young Writers Conference at the Bread Loaf campus of Middlebury College. The program accepts a maximum of two students from high schools across the country and takes place May 18-21.<\/p>\n

Williston\u2019s English Department Head Sarah Sawyer said the program is \u201cexcellent\u2014and selective.\u201d Williston students have gone every year since 2010.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s Sophia\u2019s second time attending the conference; she was there last year. \u201cI loved it. I am so excited and happy to be going back,\u201d she said. \u201cYou are surrounded by people who love to read and write. It was a liberating experience for me. The conference is like an oasis where I can just focus on writing and reading.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sophia recently won a Scholastic Art and Writing Award (a Regional Silver Key in Humor) for her work\u00a0\u201cBooger Loser.\u201d<\/p>\n

She enjoys writers who reflect the coming-of-age experience: Tobias\u00a0Wolfe, David Leviathan, and Sherman Alexie. She is currently reading short stories by fellow humorist David Sedaris.<\/p>\n

When she takes up the pen, she writes creative nonfiction. \u201cI like writing about my own experiences, but adding extra details to make it more interesting,\u201d she said. “I also like writing poetry.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Harrison Winrow ’18, seen here performing in The Comedy of Errors, will attend the conference for the first time this May.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It will be Harrison Winrow\u2019s first visit to the conference. \u201cI am very excited to work with some passionate students and professionals,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Harrison enjoys Billy Collins and Sherman Alexie \u201cto stir me up,\u201d and added that Dave Eggers is his favorite author.<\/p>\n

When Harrison writes, he drifts toward poetry. \u201cI just love the oft-rhythmic, lingering, romantic language, and the application as a visual art in structure, the raw emotion or cryptic narrative, and the strength\u2013the implied strength from the words unwritten.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI love the freedom of writing,\u201d he continued. \u201cJust as I like the freedom of speaking: gusto, bravado, intonation, a reflection of self. This is also why my AP English 11 grade is as shameful as it is,\u201d he quipped, \u201ctoo much gusto, not enough analysis.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sophia Schaefer ’18 and Harrison Winrow ’18 have been accepted to the prestigious\u00a0New England Young Writers Conference at the Bread Loaf campus of Middlebury College. The program accepts a maximum of two students from high schools across the country and takes place May 18-21. Williston\u2019s English Department Head Sarah Sawyer said the program is \u201cexcellent\u2014and … Continue reading Two Williston Students Head to Prestigious Writers Conference<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[18,16,17,15],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-england-young-writers-conference","tag-boston-globe-scholastic-art-and-writing-award","tag-bread-loaf","tag-middlebury-college","tag-new-england-young-writers-conference"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/academic-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/academic-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/academic-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/academic-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/academic-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/academic-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/academic-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/academic-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/academic-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/academic-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}