Vince Vawter, retired newspaperman and author of the popular PAPERBOY Trilogy, will share his stuttering journey with you, specifically exploring the significance of desensitization that is needed to deal with the fear of stuttering. In short, how do we begin to truly understand “the things that make no difference” and find comfort in the voice that is ours.
 
Target Audience: Speech-Language Pathologists, graduate students, individuals 

Bio: Vince Vawter is the author of Paperboy, a 2014 Newbery Honor book that has been published in more than 20 languages. His second novel, Copyboy, was published in 2018 and is a Junior Library Guild selection. Manboy, published in 2024 by the Woodlot Press, completes the popular Paperboy Trilogy. All three books explore Vawter’s stutter at three different stages of his life. The Stuttering Stoic: How an Ancient Philosophy Helped Me Find My Voice, a memoir, is his first non-fiction book and was published in 2026. Vawter is a retired newspaper editor/publisher and lives with his wife of 53 years in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains. “Paperboy,” a musical based on Vawter’s novel, was performed at the Manhattan School of Music in 2023 and had its professional debut at the Weathervane Theatre in Whitefield, N.H. this fall.