“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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Thank you to our awesome judges! Here are there comments for our 2018 winners. General interest category over 50,000 First Place Mike Newall The best Metro columnists can write about anything and find the angle that makes the subject soar. Philadelphia Inquirer’s Mike Newall is as good as it gets with that. Example: His…
Congratulations to our Winners! Find the recording of the entire Awards Ceremony on YouTube: I you are interested in reading the judges comments you can find those HERE. Also, Thank you to our wonderful panel of judges. And the winners are… CATEGORY A: General Interest, Print publications over 50,000 circulation First Place: Mike…
By Lisa Smith Molinari NSNC President During this season of flying caps and tassels, I’ve been a soupy, sentimental mess. In the last month, I’ve watched my son graduate from college and my daughter graduate from high school. My eyes are swollen and puffy, I’m tired of entertaining visiting family members, and I’ve gained ten pounds…
You, the Columnist By Dave Lieber Dallas Morning News columnist Isn’t it amazing what you do? Isn’t it amazing that you can… – Get an idea about something interesting and after you write about it, thousands of people know what’s on your mind. – Get paid for that. – Easily take high-quality photos to go…
Thank you to all who entered the 2018 NSNC Columnist Contest and a special thank you to our wonderful panel of judges. Below you will find our list of finalists from all eight categories in alphabetical order by first name. Exact placements and categories will be announced at our Awards Banquet during the NSNC Conference…
By Dave Astor NSNC Archivist Detroit Free Press columnist Rochelle Riley has a long and varied history with the National Society of Newspaper Columnists. When Riley worked for the Louisville (Ky.) Courier Journal two decades ago, she was asked by fellow CJ writer and NSNC co-founder Bob Hill to help Hill plan our organization’s 1999…
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…
