Last year Margaret Webster joined the UK Speechwriters’ Guild. I had known Margaret 25 years earlier because we were both members of the Grosvenor Square Speakers in London – part of Toastmasters International – a group that trains people in public speaking.
I was chatting to Margaret during the lockdown and I happened to mention that I always remembered her speech about the zombies, which she made at one of the club meetings. It made a deep impression on me at the time. Read more
1) Meet your peers
On February 13, 2008, I arrived at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington DC for my first speechwriters’ conference.
Read more1) What exactly does a speechwriter do?Â
The basic principles of speechwriting are simple and obvious.
There’s a story about famous basketball coach John Wooden – a figure who is lauded by managers like Alex Ferguson.
French political rhetoric is supposedly intellectual, grandiose and ‘revolutionary’, while British political rhetoric is pragmatic, prosaic and dry.
Speechwriters write speech. Yet few of us, I’d guess, give much thought to the instrument that brings our words alive: the speaker’s voice.
Speechwriting, the ‘Obama’, way will be the theme of the 18th Speechwriters’ & Business Communicators’ conference taking place at Queen’s College, Oxford from 3-5 April, 2019.
Could it become the most successful Anglo-French collaboration since Concorde? Brian Jenner discusses the launch of a network of French speechwriters.
2019 will be the 10th anniversary of the UK Speechwriters’ Guild, which was founded in 2009.
Our spring conference will take place from 3-5 April 2018. Pre-conference training will take place on 3 April.
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On 6 March 2018, a UK Speechwriters’ Guild delegation arrived in Helsinki in Finland to investigate the possibilities of organising an autumn conference for the European Speechwriter Network.
The House of the Estates
Like many European countries, there are plenty of Finns writing speeches in Government and commerce, it’s just they don’t call themselves speechwriters.
