Pack receives scholarship to attend Ohio Writers' Conference

Highland County resident Charlotte Pack received the Bill Baker Scholarship, second place from the Antioch Writer’s Workshop. The scholarship was for the annual conference held at Antioch University Midwest branch in Yellow Springs during July.

Baker started the Writer’s Summer Workshop 28 years ago and it is one of the few writers’ conferences across the nation that is held for a full week. This year’s workshop included Pulitzer Prize nominee Lee Martin as a morning class instructor for fiction.

Qualifications for the Bill Baker Scholarship included a sample piece of writing and being an active community member who showed bravery, innovation or significant contribution to their community.

Pack along with her husband, Rodney Pack of D&P electric, are clients of Grow! Highland County a grass-roots economic development group.

Sharon Bedard with Grow! Highland County said, "Charlotte and Rodney are so community minded it is a pleasure to see how they want to give back to Highland County. It has been a joy helping expand their small business."

Former Highland County News and Highland County Press Editor Kay Burns nominated Pack for the scholarship. Under Burns' editorial leadership, Pack published over 180 articles.

Pack is also the author of "Time Travels: 200 Years of Highland County History" and two children’s books: "Finding the Friendship Dolls" and "The Meadowlark: No Ordinary Bird."

“I have never met anyone like my afternoon workshop instructor Greg Belliveau. He exhibited so much passion and enthusiasm for writing right down to the word choice and sentence structure. I learned so much it is hard to describe, but I know this will take my writing to the next level,” said Pack.

The next level for Pack includes more children’s books, a Christian devotional book  called God’s Love Letters due out in October, a book on the history of sound recording and opening a sound recording museum with her husband.

Pack was chosen from her afternoon seminar class to read on Thursday, July 11 to her fellow classmates and the public. Afterwards, Dinty Moore, who teaches in and serves as director of Ohio University’s BA, MA and PH D in Creative Writing program and was a morning instructor for Creative Non-Fiction, told Pack and Belliveau, “Charlotte is a natural storyteller. She kept the audience engaged, wanting to know what happened next.”