NSNC 2026 Columnist Contest - Now Open

Sunshine Week March 15-21, 2026

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NSNC 2026 Columnist Contest - Now Open

Contest submissions now open! 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.

Sunshine Week March 15-21, 2026

We’re counting down to #SunshineWeek 2026, March 15-21. Together, we champion #OpenRecords and #OpenGovernment nationwide March 15-21. #FOIA #transparency. Free resources: sunshineweek.org

Consider a Gift to the NSNC Education Foundation

The National Society of Newspaper Columnists Education Foundation is a tax-exempt charitable organization [501(c)3] devoted to the education and training of new and experienced columnists everywhere. Donate here: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/NSNCEdFnd

Join NSNC and Reap the Benefits!

We are excited for What’s in-store for NSNC members this year. We are gearing up to launch the NSNC Annual Columnist Contest on January 15, so you’ll want to be sure your membership is up-to-date. Also, if you have ideas, suggestions, etc., please share them with our President Meredith Cummings at meredithcummings@gmail.com or Executive Director Ginny McCabe at nsncdirector@gmail.com. Thank you for your support of NSNC!

In the January Newsletter

New Year’s resolutions?  Again?  Oh, come on. Well, President Ben Pollock does have a way of making a worn-out device fresh and amusing, as well as good advice. Also some tips on the business side of writing … a “Membership Bonus” for all members. And a variety of happenings in the World’s Longest Column About…

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Chicago Member Has New Book

NSNC member Jennifer Grant’s memoir “Love You More: The Divine Surprise of Adopting My Daughter” will be published in August 2011 by Thomas Nelson publishers. Jennifer writes a column for the Chicago Tribune. Jennifer Grant’s work has been published on websites including britannica.com and in magazines.  For more than a decade, she wrote features, restaurant profiles,…

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NSNC Supports Open-Records Issue

The National Society of Newspaper Columnists has joined with other journalism organizations in expressing concern regarding a policy at institutions in the Texas A&M University System that might result in preventing journalism instructors from telling their students to file open-records requests when completing assignments. “Journalism associations need to stick together on First Amendment and freedom…

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Grisamore in Cookbook for Charity

Ed Grisamore of the Macon (GA) Telegraph is featured in a new cookbook being sold to support programs of the Rebuilding Macon organization. Some of Macon’s most gifted chefs and cooks have generously contributed their recipes for this beautiful, full-color cookbook. In the foreword for “Let’s Get Cooking”, written by Grisamore, readers can learn how…

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New York Times Reviews 2011 Conference Hotel

The Book Cadillac Hotel in Detroit, site of the upcoming NSNC 2011 Conference, June 23-26, was recently the subject of a hotel review in the New York Times : When the Westin Book Cadillac opened in 1924, it was said to be the tallest hotel in the world. It flourished for decades before succumbed to…

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Top 25 – Left and Right

Who are the top 25 pundits?  Check it out. From Right Wing News, a list of the 25 Best Conservative Columnists of 2010 (Dec 2010) . From The Daily Beast, the Left’s Top 25 Journalists (Feb. 2010)

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