Join us for the 2025 Moravian “Write to Explore” Conference
April 11-12, 2025
Everyone’s invited to this year’s FREE conference, including local community members, faculty and students from all fields of study! Please feel free to attend any or all sessions–even if you’re new to writing or story.
This year’s conference (featuring in-person and live streamed events) will cover different ways for thinking about story and story sharing, with a focus on social and environmental justice. Some questions our offerings will pose include:
- What’s the value of writing in our society today?
- How can we use writing as a tool to promote social justice and change?
- How do storytelling skills help people make a difference and connect to others in their communities?
- How can we use story sharing to illuminate the issues we face today?
Featured events include:
A presentation by Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez, a graphic novelist acclaimed for being the writer and creator of the bestselling superhero series La Borinqueña, as well as the creative director of Somos Arte, a production and creative services studio. He is the recipient of Eisner's Humanitarian Award for his philanthropic efforts via the benefit anthology Ricanstruction: Reminiscing & Rebuilding Puerto Rico.
Susan Phillips, a senior reporter/editor covering climate, energy, and environment will be in conversation with Mark Harris, a faculty member at Moravian. Phillips, as part of the WHYY News Climate Desk, has won multiple awards for her coverage of environmental issues and gun violence. Harris, a former book editor and environmental columnist with the Los Angeles Times Syndicate, authored the acclaimed book on natural burial, Grave Matters. He’s also the advisor for Moravian’s student newspaper, The Comenian.
A discussion and a workshop with Jan Cohen-Cruz, an Adjunct Professor at Moravian, former professor of drama at NYU, and the author of the book See Me: Prison Theater Workshops and Love, a collection of intimate dialogues about collective experiences in the context of prison theater workshops.
A return performance by No River Twice, a group of poets who offer poetry readings in which audiences and poets actively interact, poem by poem, to decide the direction of the performance from beginning to end, co-creating a reading that is never the same twice.
…and much more, including multiple workshops, an artist panel sponsored by Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, an open mic session, and a poetry slam!
FREE registration will open in early 2025. Here's our full schedule of events.
We’d like to thank our program sponsors including Margaret A. Cargill Fund for Environmental Studies & Sciences and the following:
