Category: Members’ News

News about NSNC members

NJ Member Seeks Newsletter Subscribers

In his other life as a journalist, Greg Rummo writes a Sunday column for several newspapers in New Jersey including The Suburban Trends, a newspaper published in his hometown of Butler, NJ by North Jersey Media Group (www.northjersey.com ). Rummo invites you to visit his website; www.gregrummo.com for a sampling of recently published columns and feature articles. He sends out an “html”…

Member Becomes an Editor

NSNC member Mark Berryman announced to the Southern Humorists Yahoo discussion group that he will soon have a new gig. “In a week or two I will be changing jobs. I will leave the Franklin County Citizen (GA) where I work as a sports and news reporter and join the Elberton Star as editor. It…

Canadian Member Offers Podcasts

Dan St. Yves, NSNC member, humor columnist, and former member of the NSNC Board, posted his latest news on the NSNC Discussion List. Dan says: “I just loaded my lastest audio interview, with award-winning humorist Will Ferguson, who’s best-selling books are available in over 30 countries! Will talks about his career, the craft of writing, and what…

Santa Fe Columnist Writes Movie Script

Luellen Smiley, NSNC member in Santa Fe, New Mexico, writes that her columns have turned into a dream: “During the last two years I have converted my Growing up with Gangster columns into a feature length script that is in the Hollywood pipeline. I continue to write Smiley’s Dice as a monthly blog, while seeking…

Zezima Loses by a Hair

NSNC member and humor columnist Jerry Zezima reports that he recently finished second in the Robert Goulet Memorial Mustached American of the Year Contest. “But the mustache contest was special because I not only was up against some stiff-upper-lipped competition, but because I lost by — you guessed it — a whisker,”  quipped Zezima. The…

Member in High School Athletics Debate

As published in Greensboro News and Record – December 19, 2010     By Dr. Michael K. Jones at ASKDRJ@AOL.COM Counter Point: Beefed-Up GPA of High School Athletics Forget Social Values Gained Having just completed a book after 4 ½ years of study called, “1000 and 500 Wins,”  focusing on the social values of high school football and…

Jersey Columnist Is “Top Blogger”

Tracy Beckerman won first place in Lifetime Television’s “The Balancing Act” Top Blogger contest. She was one of 20 bloggers who were selected to vie for the title of Top Blogger. “The other participants were all incredible blogging forces of nature and I had been convinced that my chances of winning were slim to none”…

Charleyworld Returns

Funny guy, Charles Memminger writes us with some news: Aloha family, friends and “others”, I’m happy to announce that my humor column, Charleyworld, has found a home at Hawaii’s fastest growing Internet news site: the Hawaii Reporter.  Charleyworld will be posted weekly, filling in the huge satire, sarcasm, irony, facetiousness, politically-incorrect musings and gecko commentary…

Ho-Ho-Horowitz – Holiday Parody

Another hilarious Christmas political satire from NSNC member, Rick Horowitz. Go viral for the holidays — sing along, and share the link! But…could that actually be a vintage aluminum tree with satin balls behind Rick?

Chan Featured in Asian Weekly

Wayne Chan, member of the Board of Directors and Secretary of the NSNC, recently received a great write up in Northwest Asian Weekly. Wayne is a syndicated humor columnist born in the US to conservative Chinese parents from mainland China. Chan is an American, but I growing up in a Chinese family made him feel a…

Suzette Standring on Radio Show

Suzette Standring writes to us: “I’ll be on The Bella Petite Radio Show to talk about my book-in-progress, The Height of Power: Petite Women Speak of Stature.  Navigating the world at armpit level (women who are 5¹3 and under) has its unique viewpoints -comical, eye opening and always insightful. Tune in LIVE on Tuesday, November…

Dad Blogger Wins Contest

NSNC member Jim Higley, Boblehead Dad, wrote to let us know that he has just won a national competition for dad bloggers. Sponsored by a new men’s online magazine, www.manofthehouse.com, he won Grand Prize in their “World’s Greatest Dad” Challenge. The competition included an essay and a video submission. “After three weeks of public voting and final judging…

Rinehart Takes On New Assignments

Karen Rinehart’s newspaper column has run on CatholicExchange.com’s Humor Channel for years. In addition to the column, she has been invited to write a blog for a revamped website. “Naturally I linked the NSNC in my new tagline,” she said http://catholicexchange.com/author/karen-rinehart/      Starting in January, Rinehart – who lives in the Charlotte, N.C. area…

Happy Thanksgiving!

Dave shares his unique point-of-view at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade by Fort Worth Star-Telegram columnist Dave Lieber and producer Chris Gomersall/Upstairs Media.

Grisamore Writes Community Theatre Script

             Ed Grisamore, the recipient of the 2010 Will Rogers Humanitarian Award, recently completed a writing project that was completely different. He wrote the script for a musical called “Durworld: The Life and Times of Mr. Doubletalk.” It was performed by the Youth Actors Company at Theatre Macon on Nov. 6-14. In addition to writing the…

Bennett Leads Ghost Tours

Former President of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, Samantha Bennett, is one of several tour guides who will be telling scary ghost stories during walking tours of Pittsburgh this October. Sponsors believe it is a nice way to tell Pittsburgh history and ghost stories at the same time. After taking a buyout at the…

Standring Piece Takes First Place

Suzette Martinez Standring

Suzette Martinez Standring won First Place in the Unpublished Essay category in the 2010 Royal Palm Literary Awards competition sponsored by the Florida Writers Association. “The Height of Power: Petite Women Speak of Stature,” shares the experiences and challenges of women, 5-foot-3 and under, who successfully navigate the world at armpit level. The essay encapsulated the concept for Standring’s current…