Workshop speechwriting in Oxford

Workshop speechwriting in Oxford

Ten days ago I had the honour to teach a group of speechwriters at Queen’s College in Oxford. This one day training was part of the annual conference of the European Speechwriters Network. One of the subjects that we discussed in the group was the new European trend...
Speechwriters long for recognition

Speechwriters long for recognition

In April the news was on Twitter, on the websites of ministries, in the magazine Adformatie: three Dutch speeches win an American Cicero Award. That sounds impressive. Beautiful speeches too, so it is obvious that they are worth a price. But what did they win? What is...