INSPIRATION: Finding the Spark, Unlocking the Door
39th Annual ASJA Writers Conference
April 24 – April 25, 2010 ~ New York City
Meet writers from all nonfiction specialties (consumer, trade publications, custom publications, and memoirs), as well as editors and agents from across the country. Workshops and panel discussions are geared toward writers in every stage of their career. Some will offer a quick burst of information from an insightful panel of editors, agents and writers. Other, longer sessions will give you the chance to ask questions and talk through ideas with an agent, editor or fellow writers. You’ll also learn how to make the most of social networking, make big bucks selling reprints, prepare to be the interviewee and gather trusted tricks of the trade to organize your research, notes, etc. Plus, you never know what editor or writer you’ll bump into in the elevator or sit next to at the Saturday luncheon.
Roosevelt Hotel ~ 45 East 45th Street
$265-385
For information: http://www.asja.org/wc/2010/
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The Future of Freelancing: Making Good Money by Telling Great Stories
A Conference for Journalists
June 18-19, 2010 ~ Stanford University
Sponsored by The Knight Fellowships and the American Society for Journalists and Authors
This is a first-of-its-kind conference about the future not of journalism, but of the journalist. It will inspire freelance writers to do their best work, while also giving them new tools for building their careers and thinking entrepreneurially. At this intimate gathering, about 100 mid-career journalists will have the opportunity to hear and connect with 30 speakers from traditional media, established digital media, hyperlocals, nonprofits, and other start-ups. The goal: to encourage us all to think broadly and creatively about our careers as storytellers in the midst of roiling times.
Registration details (including the opportunity to sign up for one-on-ones with top editors) and more information will be available here soon. But save the date!
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Manuscript Clinic with the Prose Doctors
Sat., June 26, 2010 ~ Corte Madera, California
10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
You’ve arranged the pieces of an article, you’ve penned a brutally honest memoir, you’ve finally finished that magazine feature. Now you’re ready to polish the prose so that it sings-and so that it speaks to every editor you send it to. Veteran editors Larry Habegger and Constance Hale, of The Prose Doctors (www.prosedoctors.com), will spend the day with you practicing what writers call “The Craft.” The day includes feedback on a piece of writing by each participant.
Larry Habegger is the executive editor of Travelers’ Tales and has edited hundreds of travel articles and personal essays. Constance Hale is a writing coach at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard and the author of Sin and Syntax.
The Book Passage
$165
For information, call 415-927-0960, ext. 1