CRWROPPS Post: Call for Proposals: NAPT 2024 Conference

From: National Association for Poetry Therapy <naptbkkr@poetrytherapy.org>

 

Deadline for Proposals: Sunday, September 17, 2023

View this email in your browser Call for Proposals The National Association for Poetry Therapy is pleased to announce that we are now accepting proposals for our upcoming 2024 Conference "Converging in Solidarity: Fostering Community and Belonging through Poetry Therapy." The conference will be held in Embassy Suites by Hilton Bethesda Washington DC on April 10-April 14, 2024. The deadline for submitting a proposal is Sunday, September 17, 2023. You can find the directions for submitting a proposal and submit online here --> https://poetrytherapy.org/Call-for-Proposals If you would prefer to submit your proposal form via email, you can download our form here and return it along with your CV(s) to naptconferencechair@gmail.com. Please visit our Call for Proposal page on our website for submission instructions --> https://poetrytherapy.org/Call-for-Proposals Please contact us at naptconferencechair@gmail.com if you have any questions. You can find more information and updates about our 2024 Conference here --> NAPT 2024 Conference ************************************************************************* We are thrilled to have Zorina Exie Frey as our Opening Poet, Cornelius Eady as our Keynote Poet, and Nancy Scherlong as our Keynote Speaker. In addition, there will be a wide range of workshops and other special events to bring us all together again!  Zorina Exie Frey is an educator, publishing content writer, and spoken word poet. She is the 2023 Pushcart Prize winner for her poem, "Pee is for Prejudice," and her writings are featured in Shondaland, Chicken Soup for the Soul: I'm Speaking Now, and swamp pink. She is a Palm Beach Poetry Festival Langston Hughes Fellow and Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing Voices of Color Fellow. Her screenplay, Harley Quinn Origin, received an honorable mention at the Birmingham Film Festival in the United Kingdom. She was also a semi-finalist for the reality TV pilot America's Next Great Author. Zorina has presented her work at the National Council of Black Studies, The Maryland Writers' Association, and South Florida Writers Association. She has an MFA in Creative Writing, double-majoring in Poetry and Creative Non-Fiction, a bachelor's degree in Mass Communication and a certificate in Web Design from Indiana University South Bend, and a certificate in Literary Publishing from Emerson College.  More at: https://zorina-frey.com; Instagram, X, and Facebook - @zorinaexie   Poet/Playwright/Songwriter and Cave Canem Co-Founder Cornelius Eady was born in Rochester, New York and is Professor of English, and the John C. Hodges Chair of Excellence in Poetry at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, a position last held by US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo. He is the author of several poetry collections, including Victims of the Latest Dance Craze, winner of the 1985 Lamont Prize; The Gathering of My Name, nominated for the 1992 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry; Brutal Imagination, and Hardheaded Weather. He wrote the libretto to Diedra Murray's opera Running Man, which was short listed for the Pulitzer Prize in Theatre, and his verse play Brutal Imagination won the Oppenheimer Prize for the best first play from an American Playwright in 2001. His awards include Fellowships from the NEA, the Guggenheim Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation. Read more about Cornelius here. Nancy S. Scherlong, LCSW, SEP, PTR/CJT, CM, is a licensed clinical social worker in the states of CT and NY, trauma-informed wellness coach, registered poetry and journal therapist and certified mentor. She currently serves as president of the International Federation for Biblio/Poetry Therapy. Nancy has been part of the NAPT community for over 30 years and is a life-long learner, writer, and lover of words! She enjoys building communities of intention and inclusion and has a multi-modal (therapeutic writing and psychodrama) creative arts coaching and psychotherapy practice (Change Your Narrative LCSW PLLC) where she specializes in trauma and nervous system regulation as well as maintains active training cohorts in both journal and poetry therapy. Nancy is on the core faculty of the Therapeutic Writing Institute (TWI), a global on-line learning   platform for journal/poetry facilitators and therapists.  She believes in the power of arts for social change and serves as lead faculty for Adelphi University's postgraduate certificate program in the Applied Expressive Arts in Counseling as well as on the faculty of Columbia University and Kint Institute. Read more about Nancy & her work here. Copyright © 2023 National Association for Poetry Therapy, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in via our website. Our mailing address is: National Association for Poetry Therapy 19001 S Richfield Ave Lot 20 Green Valley, AZ 85614