“Opinionated” with Clay Wirestone **Rescheduled for Tuesday, November 10 • 7 PM – 8 PM EST Cost: NSNC members – $25; non-members $35 or make a donation. Overview Clay Wirestone, opinion editor at the Kansas City Reflector will talk about his upcoming title “Opinionated,” which releases on September 29. Author and Opinion Editor Clay Wirestone will join NSNC members and guests to talk about his work as opinion editor of the Kansas City Reflector and his debut book, “Opinionated,” which is due out on Sept. 29. The online session will feature a talk by Wirestone followed by a Q&A. Register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nsnc-presents-opinionated-with-clay-wirestone-tickets-2002333651854?aff=oddtdtcreator
Celebrate the joy of the season! Join us for National Society of Newspaper Columnists fall mixer on Wednesday, Oct. 28 at 7-8 p.m. EST Fall is in the air! Join National Society of Newspaper Columnists for a virtual fall mixer at 7 p.m. EST on Wednesday, Oct. 28. The Holiday Mixer is $10 for everyone or by donation. Hope to see everyone as we welcome the fall season! Note: Zoom details will be provided, or email nsncdirector@gmail.com.Register at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nsnc-fall-mixer-virtual-tickets-2002341810256?aff=oddtdtcreator
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Four-time NSNC column contest winner Saralee Perel has a new book, Cracked Nuts & Sentimental Journeys: Stories From a Life Out of Balance. To read about Cracked Nuts, including how to receive a signed copy, please visit her website: www.saraleeperel.com. Online, Saralee’s columns can be found at her blog. Information on her recent novel Raw…
Participants in the 2012 annual conference of the National Society of Newspaper Columnist are publishing columns and blogs about the weekend in Macon, Ga. Here are links to them. Contact us to submit your pieces; we will update this list. Samantha Bennett, Macon Telegraph, “Time to salute?” Bill Campbell’s Emerald Coast, “Her ‘Graciousness’ and some…
Longtime NSNC member Walt Brasch has received the Lifetime Communicator of Achievement award from the Pennsylvania Press Club, reported a newspaper that runs his column. The News Eagle said Walt received the honor June 3 in Gettysburg at the club’s annual dinner. The lifetime is the state press club’s highest award, recognizing both significant journalistic…
Niesielski publishes a humor column collection and a humor-fantasy novel, e-book and paper NSNC member Wolfgang Niesielski writes that he has two books published and available for sale at Amazon.com. The first one is a collection of some of his humor columns over the years, and it’s titled The Alien in my E-Mail and Other…
Love’s Columns’ Labor’s Lost? By Ben S. Pollock NSNC Director of Online Media What’s the value of a columnist writing for no pay for a city’s newspaper (rather, its website), which it terms “a labor of love”? It turns out to be a trick question, or at least with no easy answer. A highlight of…
Attribution is the antidote to plagiarism you, the columnist By Dave Lieber www.YankeeCowboy.com Angry as all get out, as Texans like to say. That’s how I feel when I think about what happened in recent months to many of our NSNC colleagues. More than their words were stolen when their columns were plagiarized in separate…
Award-winning photo by Derrick Jackson Here are the awards Derrick Jackson was blessed to receive this awards season: Jackson was named the Writing & Photography winner respectively for Blog & Action from the Outdoor Writers Association of America.The image was also the President’s Choice among all categories of Photography. Both the writing & photography were…
At the recent National Federation of Press Women conference in Ellicott City, Maryland, Mary C. Curtis received awards: Congratulations, Mary!
Helen B. Aitken’s debut novel, “Blame It On Paris,” earned First Runner-Up honors in the Best Comedy category of the 2026 Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Awards. The award followed Aitken’s unusual achievement of placing two books among the category’s six finalists. Her second novel, “Love at First Spark,” was also named a Best Comedy Finalist.…
I’m Jeremy Desmon, a musical theater bookwriter and lyricist who’s taught a writing workshop at Princeton for twenty years. I built RhymeHamster as a side project because I found it hard to find great, quality rhymes on the endless, computer-generated lists so many existing sites give you. I shared it with my students, and they…
By Barry Damsky (Published in the May 21, 2008 Utica, NY, Observer Dispatch) Suh, Suh, Suh, Sal, Is ThatReally You? The headline in the April 28, 2008 Utica Observer Dispatch poked at me. It read, “Ex-convicts stage play.” The article was about a play that recently opened in New York about four ex-convicts…
