“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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By Laura Snyder Nationally Syndicated Columnist As newspapers and columnists continue to evolve, we hold our breath to see what happens next. Every week, we hear of another newspaper closing its doors or another columnist losing his/her job. The reasons are varied, but they boil down to the fact that there is…
Washington state columnist Anne Louise Grimm has several books in the works. Two are being self-published with Xlibris: “Anything Goes, Tedi, Deysha & Glenrose, Too” is a collection of fantasy and science fiction short stories, due to be released soon; and “It’s a Dog’s Life”, as she says “was written by my (immigrant) dog Trixi…
Just a few weeks after the University of Missouri Press released former NSNC President Bill Tammeus’ new book in September, it ordered a second printing. “They Were Just People: Stories of Rescue in Poland During the Holocaust,” by Tammeus and co-author Rabbi Jacques Cukierkorn has met with brisk sales and great reviews, including one…
By Dave Lieber Fort Worth Star-Telegram NSNCEF Secretary You’re Kelly Kazek, managing editor of the Athens (Alabama) News Courier, and you just enjoyed one of the biggest days of your life. Your first book was published, and you shared the party with everyone at the town square. As a 5-year member…
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“In addition to my Friday column, I’ve been doing a couple times a week blog on the Gettysburg Times website,” John Messenger told fellow columnists on the NSNC Discussions Newslist. He invites us to check him out and leave comments in the comments section. John’s Friday morning columns aren’t online, but there’s talk about including…
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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…
