NSNC is pleased to announce the winners and finalists of the 2024 Annual Columnist Contest. Congratulations to all of the winners and finalists: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1rsKFedu_jH5tYw6_hN1pRltusDBuJ2sX7QIv4hhGp1E/edit?usp=sharing
Hope your New Year is off to an amazing start. We are excited for What’s in-store for NSNC members this year. We will also be launching our annual contest in January, so you’ll want to be sure your membership is up-to-date. Also, if you have ideas, suggestions, etc., please share with our president, Lori Duff, at lori@loriduffwrites.com or myself at nsncdirector@gmail.com Blessings to all!
By Samantha Bennett NSNC President Happy New Year! I’ve said before that what you get out of NSNC depends on what you put into it. What do you get from your NSNC membership? I’d love to hear from you, at sambennett1@verizon.net . I’d like to hear why you joined, what you enjoy about being a…
On their Web site www.suddenlysenior.com Frank and Carolyn Kaiser provide an update on their condition after being declared in remission from their cancers. “We’re living life in the slow lane, enjoying most every moment we feel energetic enough to do so, and planning for the future, albeit uncertain,” they write. (They plan on taking a 9-day bus…
Canadian columnist Dan St.Yves caught up with fellow NSNC member W. Bruce Cameron during the annual conference in Ventura, CA. Part of their conversation has already been a feature column in a Kelowna, British Columbia newspaper, and now an audio version of the interview is available as a free download: http://thatdanguy.libsyn.com/
NSNC member Linda Fulkerson, a blog coach and Internet marketing advisor, found some valuable information at one of her favorite Web sites which she would like to share with other writers. In a guest post at Copyblogger, Demian Farnworth supplies a different suggested reading list for writers and gives a brief reason why each book…
By Dave Lieber www.WatchdogNation.com By now, as a columnist, writer, information entrepreneur, whatever you call yourself these days, you have figured out that the chief currency in this stage of the information age is the keyword search in a search engine of your name. Borrowing from Microsoft’s search engine, when someone looks you…
“In the Driver’s Seat: A Girl’s Guide to Her First Car” is the latest book to be authored by teen advice columnist Erika Stalder. “Women make up more than half of the drivers on the road, but most girls still don’t know the difference between a lug nut and a dipstick,” said the California…
CONTACT: Ginny McCabe Executive Director, NSNC NSNCdirector@gmail.com For Immediate Release National Society of Newspaper Columnists Announces Elected Officers The National Society of Newspaper Columnists (NSNC) recently elected its Board of Directors. Members voted on the positions via an online ballot. The NSNC Board of Directors is pleased to present the following officers: President: Meredith Cummings…
Join or Renew Your NSNC Membership Online Whether you write for newspapers, magazines, newsletters, trade journals or you create a podcast or write digital content, or you manage your own blog … whether you’re on staff, a freelancer, syndicated, self-syndicated or independent, if you write opinion or provide commentary, we invite you to join the…
NSNC is pleased to announce the winners and finalists of the 2024 Annual Columnist Contest. Congratulations to all of the winners and finalists: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1rsKFedu_jH5tYw6_hN1pRltusDBuJ2sX7QIv4hhGp1E/edit?usp=sharing 2024 NSNC Columnist Contest Winners (for work done in 2023) Social Justice 3rd Naomi Ishisaka, The Seattle Times 2nd Suzette Hackney, USA TODAY 1st Amelia Robinson, Columbus Dispatch Crisis Commentary Honorable…
Congratulations to NSNC member Mary C. Curtis who contributed an essay in a just released book of essays: “We Refuse to Be Silent: Women’s Voices on Justice for Black Men,” along with other notable women such as Isabel Wilkerson, Donna Brazile, Michelle Duster and Darnella Frazier (a citizen journalist who recorded the George Floyd murder). For more about…
Dave Astor’s third book — “Misty the Cat…Unleashed” — has just been published. It includes several mentions of the NSNC, for which Dave was a board member from 2009 to 2023 and he remains copy editor of the NSNC newsletter. In Dave’s part-factual/part-fictional book, the asthmatic Misty slips his harness during one of his daily leashed walks…
