“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 Chris Carosa NSNC President …It’s what you think. You folks are fun. That’s what really impresses me about this group. The best job in the world is the job you have fun doing. That’s us. (And not just because we happen to have a cornucopia of humorists!) Alas, fun is great, but as many…
The NSNC visited Cincinnati, Ohio for the 2018 annual conference. We had the honor of getting to know some of the columnists of the Cincinnati Enquirer. They joined us as colleagues and together we celebrated the accomplishments of award-winning columnists as well as discussed some of the challenges we face in today’s industry. Unfortunately yesterday…
NSNC Shuffles Off to Buffalo in 2019 Riding Huge Wave of Enthusiasm President’s Message By Chris Carosa NSNC President No sooner had the last bit of swag been packed up from our sold-out June 7-10 Cincinnati Conference then your tireless leadership issued forth a survey asking attendees what they liked most and what they would…
At the NSNC conference in Cincinnati, I taught the “Facebook for Writers” session. At the end of it, someone asked, “How much time do you spend on social media?” I had to think about that for a minute. I spend a lot of time on social media but only because it’s a big part of…
By Suzette Standring NSNC Executive Director No one does it better than Mike Leonard, the longest-serving member of the NSNC. For selfless leadership over the past 33 years, he receives the 2018 NSNC Legacy Award. And he started just like you. In 1985, Mike wrote his first general-interest column with the daily Herald-Times in Bloomington,…
On June 9, 2018, as people applauded Nick Clooney’s wonderful speech, NSNC member Rick Horowitz sprang into action. Rick asked me, “Any way we can ask Nick for his speech notes?” It hadn’t occurred to me that Nick Clooney had his entire speech written down on the yellow notepad in front of him. Bullet points, sure. But…
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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…
