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Painters Prophets Poets 2025
The goal of PPP is to plant and cultivate the seeds of creative partnership in the broader region through the shared vision of New Creation. A successful gathering will offer a renewed vision of God’s own creative work; provide opportunities for local connection and partnership; and encourage participants in their own creative, imaginative endeavors.
Join us for the second annual gathering along with Malcolm Guite, Dr. John Swinton, Mitali Perkins, and others.
Imagine new creation with us…
PPP is modeled after the successful HopeWords Conference that emerged from Bluefield, West Virginia. Inspired by the creative determination of this former coal community, HopeWords founder Travis Lowe envisioned a gathering that would bring world-class thinkers to Bluefield while also offering Bluefield as a model of how New Creation breaks through in the most unlikely places. The result of this partnership has been a yearly conference that benefits speakers, participants, and host city alike.
Having seen the impact a local, interdisciplinary gathering can have, PPP hopes to replicate the core values that have made HopeWords Conference so successful, namely:
· An affirmation of the creativity of all people
· The cultivation of interdisciplinary partnerships
· The discipline of Christian imagination
· A commitment to place
We believe that what differentiates PPP is the conviction that the call to create is not bound to a particular vocation, profession, or set of gifts. Nor is art a luxury for those with time, education, and wealth. Instead, the creative, imaginative impulse is an expression of our shared humanity as people made in the image of creative, imaginative God. Because of this, PPP also believes that the underlying principles of design, beauty, and wonder are relevant to every calling. Teachers, doctors, miners, pastors, homemakers, engineers, farmers, and foresters--all are invited into the work of envisioning and promoting Christ’s work of remaking the world in their own particular places, in their own particular ways.
hopeWords Writers' Conference 2026
Purposely situated in Bluefield, West Virginia, HopeWords Writers' Conference wants to equip and encourage you to tell stories of hope. Once a thriving industrial center, Bluefield's own story is one of boom and bust and of slowly rebuilding; the city embodies that gritty hope we all long for.
Born out of this same impulse, HopeWords calls readers, writers, and thinkers to gather among her fog-topped mountains for a weekend of imagining the work of New Creation. Because of this, the conference is intentionally intimate and spare, believing renewal happens in quiet, steady ways.
Bring your story, register today.
HopeWords Writers’ Conference
Conferences are places where usually we go to recieve. At the HopeWords Writers Conference, we believe the power is not just who is sharing, but in who is attending. Bring your story.
Painters Prophets Poets
An interdisciplinary gathering designed to cultivate spiritual imagination and promote creative partnership in pursuit of Christ’s work of New Creation.