About our Keynote Speaker Becky Rule

Becky Rule

Becky Rule, a New Hampshire native, has published two collections of short stories. The Best Revenge named Outstanding Work of Fiction by the NH Writers Project and listed as one of five "Essential NH Books" by New Hampshire Magazine. She also co-authored two how-to books with Susan Wheeler: Creating the Story and True Stories (Heinemann). Since 1992, her column Bookmarks on NH books and writers, appears in the Concord Monitor, Nashua Telegraph, and Portsmouth Herald.


Best known for her live presentations of humorous New Hampshire stories she has entertained audiences from Stratford to Keene, prompting New Hampshire Magazine to name her "Thalia: the Muse of Comedy" in its list of notable New Hampshire muses. She often performs with other writers including poets Diana Durham, Neil English, and Claire Robson. A roster artist for the NH State Council on the Arts, her passion for spoken word takes her to schools, helping young writers find their voices and for more than ten years she has served on the steering committee for the New Hampshire Young Writers Conference. 

Rebecca RuleBecky's hilarious new book, Live Free and Eat Pie: A Storyteller's Guide to New Hampshire, has recently been published by Islandport Press.  It's the granite state as only a native sees it!

Her new collection of stories, Could Have Been Worse: True Stories, Embellishments and Outright Lies, has been published by Plaidswede Press, the same publisher that brought us Fritz Wetherbee's New Hampshire, a regional best seller.

 

About Our 2011 Conference Presenters

 

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Jeanne Childs is a Geriatric Chaplain at the Dartmouth Centers for Health and Aging in Lebanon, NH. She leads emotional support groups and retreats for family caregivers and provides one-on-one support for them as well as for older adults referred to her by the DHMC Geriatricians. She will launch a new support group this fall for older adults facing loss and change. Jeanne's background and training include clinical internships at DHMC with the inpatient population and at Alice Peck Day Hospital in their long term care facility. Jeanne is passionate about empowering family caregivers and older adults to cope successfully with the torturous burdens which can drag at their spirits at this time in life. 

 

Jeannine Leclerc is a member of the NH Brain Injury Board, co-chair and founder of the Monadnock Regional Brain Injury Steering Committee, Elementary Teacher, and Fitness Instructor. She is a certified YogaKids and AAAI yoga instructor. Eleven years ago, Jeannine's eleven year old son suffered a moderate head injury in an automobile accident.  Later her fifteen year old son was riding a three wheeler at his friend’s house without a helmet, the brakes failed and he suffered a traumatic head injury.  Since these accidents, Jeannine has tried to encourage, promote awareness, support, and educate others about brain injuries and the affects on survivors and their families. Yoga is a vehicle Jeannine uses to help cope with stress.  She has been practicing yoga for eight years and taught for four years

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rebecca Dawson Webb will be leading the workshop Journaling: Opportunities for Self Care. Find out more about Rebecca from her websites:

http://www.pencentralwriters.com and http://www.clearcreativedesign.com