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.
The 16th conference of the European Speechwriter Network (including the UK Speechwriters’ Guild) will take place at King’s College, Cambridge from 11-13 April 2018.
The UK Speechwriters’ Guild invited Tony Blair’s former speechwriter, Phil Collins, to address our Christmas gathering on 23 November 2017 at the St Matthew’s Conference centre in Westminster.
We had a competition through our email newsletter to write a ‘chiastic’ phrase about speechwriting. The prize was a copy of the new edition of Jay Heinrich’s book Thank You For Arguing. We asked Jay to judge the competition. His comments and the name of the winner are published below the entries.
Righting wrongs cannot be achieved by writing wrongs.
Steve Bee
Do you need a speechwriter to acquire power, or do you need power to acquire a speechwriter? Read more
1) We don’t let speakers sit down
If a speaker is telling us something important, we prefer them to stand up. We don’t do sofa interviews and we don’t do panels – because you can appear on those without proper preparation.
2) We don’t need ‘stars’
Dr Max Atkinson is a former academic who was in the right place at the right time.
He had an interest in political oratory. His research began in the mid-1970s when there were two technological developments which enabled him to make pioneering insights.
Firstly video recording machines became widely available which enabled him to study politicians in slow motion. Secondly, audio recordings of the House of Commons were first broadcast.
