In an unexpected announcement, humor columnist and author W. Bruce Cameron announced that he has decided to discontinue his newspaper column on Jan 7th. Cameron made the announcement with his usual sense of humor: “So, after starting my column in 1995 as an email only thing, going to the Rocky Mountain News in 1998 and…
Check out the blog of Florida’s Writer’s Conference that quotes our columnists.com article about Bruce being selected for the Columnist of the Year Award. It’s great to see that Bruce will be the keynote speaker at this conference next October in Orlando. The photo is of Bruce Cameron and Suzette Standring, Past President of the National…
Syndicated columnist W. Bruce Cameron has been named 2011 Columnist of the Year by the National Society of Newspaper Columnists. Cameron, an award-winning humor writer, best-selling author and popular speaker, will be honored at the organization’s 35th annual conference, which is being held in Detroit June 23-26, 2011. In announcing the award, NSNC President Ben…
By Suzette Martinez Standring Past President, NSNC Eighty-eight-year-old Dorothy Brush still writes her twice-weekly column for The Crossville Chronicle in Crossville, Tennessee. It’s been seven years since she was diagnosed with terminal cancer and had refused any treatment. In 2004, the NSNC awarded her “Columnist of the Year” because she continued to write her column…
Garret Matthews, a reporter and columnist for the Evansville, Ind., Courier & Press, has published “Favorites”, described as “a collection of newspaper columns about Americana, the likes of which are fading from print.” The book is available for purchase from lulu.com. Also see http://www.newspaperwriter.com Matthews, a Virginia native, worked on the Bluefield, W. Va.,…
