SCHEDULE
This two-day seminar features six rooms of concurrent sessions with both morning and afternoon sessions. And you won't want to miss the Saturday night reception-your chance to mingle with speakers and other attendees.
Note that this schedule is subject to change. If a particular session is important to you please check back regularly for updates.
| Saturday, April 2 | |
| 7 - 9 a.m. | Registration |
| 9:00 a.m. | Opening Keynote An Epiphany: This is what we do (Dan Barry) |
| 10:15 a.m. |
Morning Sessions I Reporting on Colliding Cultures (Cynthia Gorney) Chasing paper (or: How quotes and color are never enough) (Ken Armstrong) So You Want to be an Author: How Book Writing Can Sharpen Journalistic Thinking, Improve Storytelling; and Drive You Crazy (Bill Dietrich) On the Beat: Keeping it Fresh and Smart (Deborah Bach, Janet Tu, and Lornet Turnbull) One-Day Wonders: The Secrets of Short Narrative (Jack Hart) The Challenges, Perils and Pitfalls of Personal Journalism (or how to date, go steady and happily part ways with your sources) (Louise Kiernan) |
| 11:45 a.m. |
Morning Sessions II Writing Your Story onto the Front Page (Mary Hadar) People in 3-D: How to Write Profiles that Leap Off the Page (Tommy Tomlinson) Playing it by Ear: What newspaper writers can learn from radio storytellers (Lisa Pollak) Why work at a Weekly? (Erica C Barnett and Nigel Jaquiss) Zen and the Art of Receptive Interviewing: How to Uncover Tough Truths and Real Lives without Acting Like a Jerk (Nina Shapiro) Juiced: How an injection of anabolic reporting and writing can turn a pop-fly story into a home run. And it's all legal! (Bill Plaschke) |
| 1:00 p.m. |
Lunch On your own at one of the many restaurants around the Seattle Center. |
| 2:30 p.m. |
Afternoon Sessions I How I Got the Story - The investigation that unlocked a 30-year-old secret about Oregon's most influential citizen (Nigel Jaquiss) Writing Explanatory and Investigative Stories (Ken Armstrong and Louise Kiernan) Making Hard Facts Easy Reading (Roy Peter Clark) My Adventure with Food...or how producing a radio documentary taught me about other cultures, storytelling, and building trust (Ruby de Luna) |
| 4:00 p.m. |
Afternoon Sessions II Telling Detail: When animating history, or any story for that matter, it's the little things that count (Erik Larson) Writing in the Big City (Dan Barry) Does Courtney Love Pass the Smell Test? Research, truth-telling and legwork in nonfiction reporting (Charles Cross) Finding People and Information (Miyoko Wolf) |
| 5:30 p.m. |
National Writers Workshop Mixer Come and enjoy time with NWW presenters and attendees in a relaxed setting. |
| Sunday, April 3 | |
| 9:30 a.m. |
Morning Sessions I
Literary Forensics - Diagnosing your writing from the inside out (Jacqui Banaszynski) Writing Your Story onto the Front Page* (Mary Hadar) One-Day Wonders: The Secrets of Short Narrative* (Jack Hart) The Seven Keys: How to Recharge Your Creative Spirit, Learn To Love Your Job Again, And (Possibly) Win Large Cash Prizes (Tommy Tomlinson) The Joy of Science: How Tapping Your Inner Nerd Can Give You The Best Assignments in Journalism (Bill Dietrich) Reporting on Colliding Cultures* (Cynthia Gorney) |
| 11:00 a.m. |
Morning Sessions II The Art of the Profile (Leslie Bennetts) Juiced: How an injection of anabolic reporting and writing can turn a pop-fly story into a home run. And it's all legal!* (Bill Plaschke) To Iraq and Back: In a time of war, finding the stories that connect with the Pacific Northwest's home front readers (Hal Bernton and Mike Gilbert) On the Beat: Keeping it Fresh and Smart* (Deborah Bach, Janet Tu, and Lornet Turnbull) Telling Detail: When animating history, or any story for that matter, it's the little things that count* (Erik Larson) |
| 12:30 p.m. |
Closing Keynote Fifty Writing Tools in Fifty Minutes (Roy Peter Clark) |
* These workshops are second opportunities to attend popular sessions
