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SUMMARY:Writing as a Tool to Face America’s Past
DESCRIPTION:FREE event but registration required HERE. \nRochelle Riley ended a nearly 20-year career as a nationally syndicated\, award-winning Detroit columnist in 2019 to become the City of Detroit’s Director of Arts and Culture. \nIn that role\, she guides the city’s investment in the arts and creates opportunities for transformative innovation. Her most recent project was the nation’s first city-wide memorial to victims of Covid-19: 15 funeral processions that circled the city’s Belle Isle past 907 photo billboards of victims. The installation\, the largest in the city’s history\, gained international attention in August 2020 and provided closure for families across the city who could not have individual funerals for their loved ones. \nThe author\, essayist\, and arts advocate travels the country hosting conversations about the burden that America still bears by refusing to deal with the aftermath of American enslavement.  She is the author of “The Burden: African Americans and the Enduring Impact of Slavery.” \nJoin NSNC Executive Director Cassie McClure as she talks with Rochelle Riley about Riley co-authoring the recently released book “That They Lived\,” a collection of essays and photographs about famous African Americans that all children should know (Wayne State University Press\, 2021). \nWhen: Thursday\,  August 26\, at 7:30 ET \nMore Bio: ROCHELLE RILEY \nRiley worked previously at The (Louisville) Courier-Journal\, The Dallas Morning News\, and The Washington Post. She received the 2017 Ida B. Wells Award from the National Association of Black Journalists “for her outstanding efforts to make newsrooms and news coverage more accurately reflect the diversity of the communities they serve” and the 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Professional Journalists. She was a 2016 inductee into the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame and a 2019 inductee into the North Carolina Media and Journalism Hall of Fame. \nRochelle received the 2017 Eugene C. Pulliam Editorial Fellowship from the Society of Professional Journalists to study how trauma impedes how children learn. She is a co-founder of Letters to Black Girls\, an initiative to give letters of advice and encouragement from women to girls across the country. \nBuy the Book HERE
URL:https://www.columnists.com/event/writing-as-a-tool-to-confront-americas-past-2/
CATEGORIES:Webinars,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20210603T193000
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SUMMARY:Getting the Full Story in the Age of Media Mistrust with Julian Rubinstein and Terrance Roberts
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, June 3\, 2021\n7:30 PM Eastern Time/ 5:30 PM Mountain Time\nFREE! Register HERE\nStories cannot be written from press releases and political soundbites alone. Julian Rubinstein’s new book The Holly: Five Bullets\, One Gun\, and the Struggle to Save an American Neighborhood details the intricacies and contradictions that exist between law enforcement and Black America through the lens of Northeast Denver. He also manages to shine a light on the cost of gutting local newsrooms. \nWhile researching this book\, Rubinstein attended the same community meetings as local law enforcement and media and was surprised when local media failed to report on significant happenings. \nJoin NSNC Media Director Bonnie Jean Feldkamp as she talks about media coverage\, how it affected Terrance Roberts’ efforts to prevent gang violence along with Julian Rubinstein’s observations of how a gutted local media fell short in coverage on important issues for Denver’s northeast neighborhoods. \nFREE! Register HERE\nAbout The Holly: Five Bullets\, One Gun\, and the Struggle to Save an American Neighborhood\n \n\n \nAn award-winning journalist’s dramatic account of a shooting that shook a community to its core\, with important implications for the future \nOn the last evening of summer in 2013\, five shots rang out in a part of northeast Denver known as the Holly. Long a destination for African American families fleeing the Jim Crow South\, the area had become an “invisible city” within a historically white metropolis. While shootings there weren’t uncommon\, the identity of the shooter that night came as a shock. Terrance Roberts was a revered anti-gang activist. His attempts to bring peace to his community had won the accolades of both his neighbors and the state’s most important power brokers. Why had he just fired a gun? \nIn The Holly\, the award-winning Denver-based journalist Julian Rubinstein reconstructs the events that left a local gang member paralyzed and Roberts facing the possibility of life in prison. Much more than a crime story\, The Holly is a multigenerational saga of race and politics that runs from the civil rights movement to Black Lives Matter. With a cast that includes billionaires\, elected officials\, cops\, developers\, and street kids\, the book explores the porous boundaries between a city’s elites and its most disadvantaged citizens. It also probes the fraught relationships between police\, confidential informants\, activists\, gang members\, and ex-gang members as they struggle to put their pasts behind them. In The Holly\, we see how well-intentioned efforts to curb violence and improve neighborhoods can go badly awry\, and we track the interactions of law enforcement with gang members who conceive of themselves as defenders of a neighborhood. When Roberts goes on trial\, the city’s fault lines are fully exposed. In a time of national reckoning over race\, policing\, and the uses and abuses of power\, Rubinstein offers a dramatic and humane illumination of what’s at stake. \nBy the Book HERE
URL:https://www.columnists.com/event/getting-the-full-story-in-the-age-of-media-mistrust-with-julian-rubinstein/
CATEGORIES:Webinars,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20210514T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20210514T170000
DTSTAMP:20260423T042901
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SUMMARY:Writing as a Tool to Confront America’s Past
DESCRIPTION:Rochelle Riley ended a nearly 20-year career as a nationally syndicated\, award-winning Detroit columnist in 2019 to become the City of Detroit’s Director of Arts and Culture. \nIn that role\, she guides the city’s investment in the arts and creates opportunities for transformative innovation. Her most recent project was the nation’s first city-wide memorial to victims of Covid-19: 15 funeral processions that circled the city’s Belle Isle past 907 photo billboards of victims. The installation\, the largest in the city’s history\, gained international attention in August 2020 and provided closure for families across the city who could not have individual funerals for their loved ones. \nThe author\, essayist\, and arts advocate travels the country hosting conversations about the burden that America still bears by refusing to deal with the aftermath of American enslavement.  She is the author of “The Burden: African Americans and the Enduring Impact of Slavery.” \nJoin NSNC Executive Director Cassie McClure as she talks with Rochelle Riley about Riley co-authoring the recently released book “That They Lived\,” a collection of essays and photographs about famous African Americans that all children should know (Wayne State University Press\, 2021). \nWhen: Thursday\,  August 26\, at 7:30 ET \nFREE for NSNC Members Login First then register HERE \n$25 for NonMembers Register HERE \nOr Become a Member HERE \nBuy the Book HERE \n  \nMore Bio: ROCHELLE RILEY \nRiley worked previously at The (Louisville) Courier-Journal\, The Dallas Morning News\, and The Washington Post. She received the 2017 Ida B. Wells Award from the National Association of Black Journalists “for her outstanding efforts to make newsrooms and news coverage more accurately reflect the diversity of the communities they serve” and the 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Professional Journalists. She was a 2016 inductee into the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame and a 2019 inductee into the North Carolina Media and Journalism Hall of Fame. \nRochelle received the 2017 Eugene C. Pulliam Editorial Fellowship from the Society of Professional Journalists to study how trauma impedes how children learn. She is a co-founder of Letters to Black Girls\, an initiative to give letters of advice and encouragement from women to girls across the country.
URL:https://www.columnists.com/event/writing-as-a-tool-to-confront-americas-past/
CATEGORIES:Webinars,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20210325T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20210325T200000
DTSTAMP:20260423T042901
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SUMMARY:Book Publicity - Promote your Book in a Pandemic and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:Free for NSNC members! \nBook tours\, review coverage\, and author interviews are no longer the only (or best) ways to sell books. Effective book publicity campaigns have changed over the years and most recently as a result of the pandemic. Laura Rossi is a book publicist with three decades in book publishing she’ll discuss podcast and social media “book tours” and how authors can publicize (and sell) books in this brave new world. \nLaura Rossi is also the owner of her own public relations agency\, she is a published author\, as well as the PR Director for the new literary community A Mighty Blaze. \nRead Her full Bio on her website HERE. \nMembers Register HERE for FREE. \nNon members $25 Register HERE
URL:https://www.columnists.com/event/book-publicity-promote-your-book-in-a-pandemic-and-beyond/
CATEGORIES:Webinars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20210225T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20210225T200000
DTSTAMP:20260423T042901
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SUMMARY:Signing a Book Contract: Dos\, Don’ts and Dirty Little Secrets
DESCRIPTION:Webinar:  Thursday\, February 25\, 2021\, 7:00 p.m. EST\nFree to NSNC Members Register HERE\n$25.00 for non-members Register HERE\nBecome a Member HERE\n\n.\n\nAre you prepared to negotiate a book contract? Columnists and bloggers are expanding their platforms into authorship. There are important aspects for contracts with hybrid and traditional publishers: rights\, royalties\, risks\, sub-rights\, marketing expectations\, pricing\, and more.  This useful workshop will feature sample publishing contracts\, templates\, royalty calculators\, and tips from two members who have signed with publishers. Learn how to protect yourself and your work!\n\nThe Speakers\nLori B. Duff is the managing partner of Jones & Duff\, LLC and the Municipal Court Judge for the City of Loganville\, Georgia.  She writes a bi-weekly column called “Legalese” which is geared towards translating complicated legal topics into plain English.  Her humor column\, also bi-weekly\, has been twice mentioned honorably in the NSNC annual column contest.  She is Vice President of the Council of Municipal Court Judges’ Association (or is that President of all Vice?) and serves as the current Vice President of the NSNC.  Her fourth book\, “If You Did What I Asked in the First Place” is now available\, and is hopefully a bestseller by the time you read this.  She can be found at www.loriduffwrites.com\n\nLisa Smith Molinari is a multiple\, award-winning columnist behind “The Meat and Potatoes of Life\, a military spouse column that appears weekly in the Stars and Stripes and military community newspapers worldwide. She is the author ofThe Meat and Potatoes of Life: My True Lit Com. She is a NSNC past president and her work has been featured in anthologies\, including Chicken Soup for the Soul editions.\nShe is a lawyer\, co-founder and Vice President of Operations for The Orion Military Scholarship Fund\, Inc.\, a public charity.
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20210208T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20210208T170000
DTSTAMP:20260423T042901
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SUMMARY:Virtual Conference
DESCRIPTION:Register now!\nFor the NSNC Member Rate of $150 CLICK HERE\nFor the Non-member Rate of $225 that includes a one-year membership to the NSNC. CLICK HERE \nDetails below and on the Conference Page HERE. \n  \nThe conference will be a live Zoom\, but all programs (except the breakout sessions) will be recorded and can be watched at any time.\n\n\nComedian Leighann Lord will bring laughter and shine light on our chosen career path!\n\n\nApply Pulitzer Prize Winning Elements To Your Own Column/Blog\nTony Messenger\, the 2019 Pulitzer Prize winner for commentary\, will share his series of powerful columns made a difference to Missouri law. Looking back\, Tony will share his mistakes\, his research and writing discoveries that made his work a potent force for change.\n\n\nEmerging Social Platforms: Pick one and run with it – Rebecca Regnier\nOn-line platforms are plentiful and confusing. What if you could pick the one best suited to feature and promote your work?  Award winning journalist\, columnist\, and mystery writer Rebecca Regnier has used social media to successful advantage. Enjoy an informative tour through emerging platforms\, as she does the hard work of analyzing each one for their distinctive benefits.\n\n\nCharge more for your columns and use free experts – Bonnie Jean Feldkamp and Dr. Adam Earnheardt\nOriginal reporting in columns pays more. Expert advice\, studies\, research and new trends cited in columns/blogs make them much more marketable. Find out how to work with universities to provide experts and data. Using them as go-to resources is a mutual win-win. Most columns – health\, parenting\, lifestyle\, religion\, environmental\, how-to\, even nostalgia and humor – can benefit the writer with a possible pay boost.\n\n\nRestoring Trust between the Public and Journalists – Rod Hicks\nWhat is really at the heart of anti-press hatred? It might surprise you. In 2019 journalist Rod Hicks\, an African-American\, traveled to Casper\, Wyoming\, known for being predominantly white\, pro-Trump and distrustful of the press\, where he led the Society of Professional Journalists’ Media Trust Project for six months. The mutual dialogue and listening on both sides resulted in an enlightening blueprint he will share on what journalists of all levels can do to win back audiences. Find out what we as columnists\, reporters\, and producers need to know to restore trust.\n\n\nEditors 101: How to find a good editor and then how does it work?\nBy Natasa Lekic\nColumnists and bloggers want to turn their work into books\, or perhaps author fiction or non-fiction. There are vulnerabilities and challenges to overcome in order to reach a writing goal\, and a professional editor can offer insight and practical help. Learn how to find a reputable editor as well as how to make a good match. What does an collaborative editing process entail? Discover Why it matters that you and your editor are a good match and how to make it happen\, or if you even need an editor.\n\n\nGrow a Successful Specialty Column\nWhat do humor\, grammar and religion columnists have in common? Career longevity (so far) and an engaged readership. Curtis Honeycutt\, “The Grammar Guy” can help you identify a niche\, write from a unique and fresh perspective\, and how to become its micro-expert.\n\nDorothy Rosby\, a humorist for 24 years\, has a system for generating ideas\, thoughts on addressing serious topics with humor\, and tips for self-syndication.\n\nSuzette Standring’s religion column is syndicated through Gannett (formerly GateHouse) since 2008. Out of a stable of columnists\, she’s one of two left at The Patriot Ledger. Find out how language\, vulnerability\, and universal resonance keeps her readership strong.\n\nAll skills are applicable to any column genre or type of writing.\n\n\nBONUS OFFERING. FIRST COME\, FIRST SERVED:\n\nIs your book or blog a screen worthy project? By Laurice Elehwany\nGet a one-on-one 15-minute meeting with a professional Hollywood screenwriter to pitch your book or blog as a possible film project. Make your pitch in one-two minutes\, then let Laurice ask you questions and use the time to get valuable advice.\n\n\nBREAKOUT SESSIONS\, COCKTAILS AND ADVICE GO HAND IN HAND\n\n\nThree one-hour sessions are offered (but will not be tape recorded).  Network with friends\, and brainstorm and share advice re the following three topics.  More instructions to follow as we get closer.  The same topics will be offered on both Friday and Saturday\, so you won’t miss out.\n\n\nGet Readers to Open Your Newsletters\nDifferent Ways to Turn Your Books Into Columns\nThe Virtual Book Tour:  Promoting your books to best advantage
URL:https://www.columnists.com/event/virtual-conference/
CATEGORIES:Webinars,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20210128T193000
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SUMMARY:The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre:  Separating Fact from Fiction\, Then and Now
DESCRIPTION:This program is free thanks to a grant from PEN America\nIn 1921\, rumor and racism caused white angry mobs to burn Black Wall Street to the ground. The Greenwood District of Tulsa\, Oklahoma was known as Black Wall Street because of its prosperous community of 10\,000 African-Americans. The devastation included 300 deaths\, hundreds of injuries\, 5\,000 were left homeless\, and 4\,000 acres were destroyed by fire. This year 2021 is the 100-year memorial of the historic tragedy\, which has relevance to modern day issues. When writing from a historical perspective\, how does one parcel fact from fiction when referring to long ago events? Gain important insights from historian/attorney Hannibal Johnson\, and journalist/author Randy Krehbiel.  \nBoth authors have turned decades-long research into books about the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. The session will be moderated by Ginnie Graham\, Tulsa World’s senior columnist. \nMr. Johnson has authored numerous books\, including Images of America: Tulsa’s Historic Greenwood District\, and Black Wall Street: From Riot to Renaissance in Tulsa’s Historic Greenwood District \nFind Hannibal Johnson’s books on Amazon HERE \nRandy Krehbiel is political reporter for Tulsa World with a 40-year career in journalism. He is an author and his latest book is Tulsa 1921: Reporting a Massacre. \nFind his bio and his books on Amazon HERE. \nThis is a free event to be broadcast on Facebook Live at www.facebook.com/PENamerica\n 
URL:https://www.columnists.com/event/tulsa-1921/
CATEGORIES:Webinars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20210127T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20210127T203000
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SUMMARY:Searching for the Truth When Writing Personal Stories: A Conversation with Author David Maraniss
DESCRIPTION:Discover valuable insights into the search for truth\, especially as it applies to personal stories. David Maraniss\, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist\, best-selling author\, and Washington Post associate editor will share his writing experiences. His book\, A Good American Family: The Red Scare and My Father (2019) is about his father\, Elliott Maraniss\, a WWII veteran who had commanded an all-Black company in the Pacific.  He was spied on by the FBI\, named as a Communist by an informant\, called before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1952\, fired from his newspaper job\, and blacklisted for five years. Yet his father never lost faith in America and emerged on the other side with his family and optimism intact.  \nHow does one navigate writing about personal and painful memories\, especially when it focuses on family? Get your questions answered. Mr. Maraniss won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting\, and has authored books about President Barack Obama\, the 1960 Summer Olympics\, Vince Lombardi\, The Vietnam War\, Newt Gingrich\, President Bill Clinton\, Al Gore\, Roberto Clemente and more.  \nA Good American Family is available on Amazon \nRegister now \nFREE for NSNC Members. Register Here – First Login HERE to access your discount. \n$45 if you are Not a Member of the NSNC.  Register Here \nNot a Member? Join Now!
URL:https://www.columnists.com/event/david-maraniss/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20210113T200000
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SUMMARY:Write to Unite
DESCRIPTION:Register now \n$25 for NSNC Members. Register Here – Login to access your discount. \n$45 if you are Not a Member of the NSNC.  Register Here (SPJ members Use CINCYSPJ Coupon Code Here for discounted rate) \nNot a Member? Join Now! \nTogether in partnership with the Cincinnati chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists\, the NSNC presents Write to Unite. \nThe election is over\, but never has our country’s discourse been so divided and polarized. Two award-winning columnists\, conservative and liberal\, will talk about the power of writing to heal and unite. Can this be possible and how can we columnists work toward that goal? \nPanelists include: \nClarence Page \nClarence Page is the 1989 Pulitzer Prize winner for Commentary\, a columnist syndicated nationally by Tribune Media Services\, and a member of the Chicago Tribune’s editorial board. Page was also the 2007 recipient of the Ernie Pyle Lifetime Achievement Award\, the National Society of Newspaper Columnists’ highest honor. \nKathleen Parker \nKathleen Parker has been syndicated by the Washington Post Writers Group since 2006. She won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary and in 2019 was the Ernie Pyle Lifetime Achievement Award recipient\, the National Society of Newspaper Columnists’ highest honor. \nKevin Aldridge \nKevin Aldridge will moderate this discussion. In addition to working full-time as a journalist\, Aldridge also is an adjunct professor of Journalism at Miami University’s regional campuses in Middletown and Hamilton\, Ohio. He is also a board member of Beyond Civility\, an organization that addresses the challenge we face in trying to bridge the informational and ideological chasms that separate our leaders from each other and from their own diverse constituencies. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.columnists.com/event/write-to-unite/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20201217T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20201217T203000
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SUMMARY:The Art of the Interview
DESCRIPTION:In the pandemic\, journalists are doing a lot of “Zooming” and are expected to do more live interviews. As journalists\, we’re used to conducting interviews for crafting articles that quote and otherwise glean from conversations. In Zoom webinars and other live programs\, an interview looks very different. There’s no going back later to cobble quotes together for an article. It all happens in real time. The interviewer must lead the conversation for an immediate audience.  \nMary C. Curtis\, a columnist at Roll Call\, an award-winning journalist\, and host of the CQ Roll Call podcast “Equal Time\, with Mary C. Curtis;” and John Avlon\, who has gone from Editor-in-Chief of The Daily Beast to senior political analyst and fill-in anchor at CNN\, will provide valuable insights to the art of the interview. \nStudents email Bonnie Jean Feldkamp at Media@Columnists.com for your FREE registration. \n$25 for Members. Register Here – Login to access your discount. \n$45 for Nonmembers. Register Here. \nNot a Member? Join Now! \n 
URL:https://www.columnists.com/event/the-art-of-the-interveiw/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20201210T200000
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SUMMARY:Connie Schultz:  Complete Your Book Project
DESCRIPTION:Do you have a book project and need inspiration to follow through? Connie Schultz\, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and author will talk about the importance of writing down our stories. Her newest book\, The Daughters of Erietown: A Novel\, is a New York Times best seller. Be guided by her insights\, writing tips\, and encouragement. How she wrote her book will inspire you to finish yours. \nRegister now \n$25 for Members Register Here – Login to access your discount. \n$45 for NonMembers Register Here \nNot a Member? Join Now! \nBuy The Daughters of Erietown: A Novel.
URL:https://www.columnists.com/event/connie-schultz-complete-your-book-project/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20201203T200000
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SUMMARY:Welcome\, George Will
DESCRIPTION:Together in partnership with The Society of Professional Journalists\, the NSNC presents A Night with George Will\, the recipient of The National Society of Newspaper Columnists’ 2020 Ernie Pyle Lifetime Achievement Award. \nOn Thursday\, December 3 at 8 p.m. (ET)\, legendary conservative columnist George Will will reflect on the highs and lows of his career\, his body of work\, the column writing industry – and\, quite possibly\, his love of baseball.  NSNC President Tony Norman will facilitate a most interesting Q&A with Mr. Will. Attendees can post questions in the webinar’s Q&A section. Mr. Will and his myriad accomplishments will be recognized by the NSNC 2020 Ernie Pyle Lifetime Achievement Award to be presented by NSNC president Tony Norman.  Don’t miss an hour with one of America’s most celebrated columnists! \nThis event is sponsored by The George Kaiser Family Foundation of Tulsa\, OK\, and is co-hosted by The National Society of Newspaper Columnists and the Society of Professional Journalists.\nRegister now \n$25 for Members Register Here – Login to access your discount. \n$45 if you are Not a Member of the NSNC Register Here (Use Coupon Codes here) \nNot a Member? Join Now! \nBuy George Will’s latest book The Conservative Sensibility
URL:https://www.columnists.com/event/welcome-george-will/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20201112T193000
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SUMMARY:Webinar: What Makes a Good Book Review Column
DESCRIPTION:What makes a good book review column? How are books selected for review? Join Tony Norman NSNC President and Book Review Editor for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette as he discusses the answers to these questions and more with Pamela Paul the editor of the Book Review and who oversees all books coverage at The New York Times. \nRegister now \n$25 for Members Register Here – Login to access your discount. \n$45 if you are Not a Member of the NSNC  Register Here (Use Coupon Codes Here) \nNot a Member? Join Now!
URL:https://www.columnists.com/event/what-makes-a-good-book-review-column/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20201026T200000
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SUMMARY:NSNC Hosts First Amendment Forum
DESCRIPTION:Despite an abundance of media outlets and formats\, our nation’s freedom of speech is imperiled. The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees that the government may enact no laws regarding the establishment of religion\, and bestows the rights of free speech\, freedom of the press\, and the right of peaceable assembly. Yet\, the public is increasingly skeptical of information received through news sources\, wary of its privacy being protected\, and anxious that its rights of free expression and peaceable assembly are being impeded. \nWhat are the underlying concerns about this fundamental right that’s causing our societal unease\, and what can be done to ensure the most essential of American rights is protected? To discuss this vital issue\, the NSNC has assembled four expert panelists for a virtual First Amendment Forum on Monday\, October 26\, at 8 p.m. They include: \n \n\nRobyn Blumner\, the President and CEO of the Center for Inquiry\, which stands for the separation of church and state.\nLori Duff\, an Atlanta-area municipal-court judge\, columnist\, and author of several books.\nMichael Leonard\, who’s been an adjunct professor at Indiana University since 1987 and a longtime journalist.\nTom Melia\, director of the Washington\, DC\, office of PEN America\, which works to facilitate the unfettered creation of art and exchange of ideas.\n\nEach panelist will speak for approximately 10 minutes on their area of expertise\, and then the session will be open to Q and A for all participants. The cost is $25. Whether you’re a journalist\, an academic\, or simply a concerned citizen\, we hope you’ll join us for this opportunity to discuss and outline how we can protect and enhance the vitality of our Constitutional protections. \nRegister Now
URL:https://www.columnists.com/event/nsnc-hosts-first-amendment-forum/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20201017T100000
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SUMMARY:Guided Meditation with Suzette Martinez Standring
DESCRIPTION:Guided Imagery to Enhance The Writing Process by Suzette Martinez Standring\nRelaxation is key to creativity. A guided imagery exercise will help attendees go deep into a memory for details\, emotion and insights to share with readers. Suzette Martinez Standring will take you into a centered and peaceful focus\, where a story finds YOU. Learn how to create this meditative experience on your own. After the guided imagery\, the time will be spent writing in silence. Anyone can stay after the one-hour workshop for Q&A or brief sharing. \nRegister now \n$25 for Members –  Login to access your discount. \n$45 for NonMembers \nNot a member? Join Now to access discounts immediately.
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Kentucky/Louisville:20200924T200000
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SUMMARY:Webinar with Chicken Soup for the Soul's Amy Newmark
DESCRIPTION:Learn to write with emotion that resonates. Amy Newmark\, Editor-in-Chief of the Chicken Soup for the Soul (CSS) book series\, will guide you with tips on how to deliver short-form writing that strikes a chord. And\, if you’re interested in learning how to become a CSS contributor\, Amy can provide valuable insights on crafting content that creates bonds with readers — and boosts your chance of being selected. Upcoming CSS editions needing submissions include “Tough Times\,” “Eldercare\,” and “Counting Your Blessings.” \nRegister Now \n$25 for Members Register HERE – Login to access your discount. \n$45 for NonMembers Register HERE \nOr Join Now!
URL:https://www.columnists.com/event/chicken-soup-for-the-souls-amy-newmark/
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