NSNC 2026 Columnist Contest - Deadline Extended to May 1

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NSNC 2026 Columnist Contest - Deadline Extended to May 1

Contest submissions will be accepted through May 1! We are accepting entries from columnists, bloggers, and serial essayists  for our 2026 Annual Columnist Contest (for work published in 2025). We will accept entries from columnists, bloggers, and serial essayists published in 2025.  Everyone is welcome to submit. You don’t have to be an NSNC member.

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Column about Detroit

By Susan Young susandyoung@hotmail.com The Observer The city of Detroit, or as Aretha Franklin pronounces it, “Day-Twah”, gets a much undeserved bum rap and might not be your choice of vacation destinations. However, my recent visit was a pleasant, safe and educational experience. We stayed in the core of the city at a renovated historical…

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President’s Message – Axis of Nice

By Ben S. Pollock NSNC President   Had a bizarre dream the other night, that World War III had started. I saw Dianne Feinstein, she having moved up from senator to secretary of state or vice president, holding a news conference. She announced the U.S. ambassador to Turkey had died in a suspicious plane crash. A…

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Rochelle Riley wins Humanitarian Award

Crusading columnist Rochelle Riley of the Detroit Free Press is the winner of the 2011 Will Rogers Humanitarian Award.  She will receive the prestigious award sponsored by the National Society of Newspaper Columnists at the organization’s annual conference, which is being held in Detroit June 23-26. Riley, who writes commentary on social, political and cultural…

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In the May Newsletter

This year’s Will Rogers Humanitarian Award winner won’t have to go far to accept the award. She’s one of Detroit’s own. President Ben Pollock’s monthly contribution makes you want to say, “hmmm.” Suzette Standring has an interesting essay on “Writing to Heal.” Lots of news about your fellow members of the NSNC … and much…

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The royal wedding will have to go on without me!

By Bonnie Squires Published April 27, 2011 Main Line Media Well, I must confess that I do not plan to set my alarm for 4 a.m. tomorrow morning in order to watch the royal wedding. I mean, I have been trying to understand what all the fuss is about. So Prince William is going to…

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Cameron’s latest book now in paperback

A Dog's Purpose

NSNC member W. Bruce Cameron, who will receive the Columnist of the Year Award at the Detroit Conference, recently informed us, “My novel, “A Dog’s Purpose,” which spent 19 weeks on the NY Times bestseller list as a hard cover, will be out in paperback on May 24th, 2011.” Cameron has already made headlines with the…

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