San Antonio National Writers Workshop set for May 22, 23; features Pulitzer Prize winning panelists & working writers
SAN ANTONIO - The San Antonio Express-News will host the National Writers Workshop May 22 and 23 at the Sheraton Gunter Hotel . The workshop, which will feature a line-up of two dozen established writers including eight Pulitzer Prize winners, is open to writers, students, and educators.
Among the Pulitzer Prize-winning workshop hosts are Edna Buchanan, mystery novelist and author of The Corpse Wore A Familiar Face and winner of the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for police beat reporting at the Miami Herald; Barry Siegel, director of the literary journalism program at the University of California-Irvine, who won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing while at the Los Angeles Times; Eric Newhouse, projects editor at the Great Falls (Montana) Tribune and winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism with the series "Alcohol: Cradle to the Grave;" and Cindy Yamanaka, staff photographer at the Orange County Register and winner of the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting on violence against women.
Other Pulitzer Prize winners who will serve on panels or lead workshops include David Cay Johnston of The New York Times, Tom Hallman of The Oregonian, and Tom French of the St. Petersburg Times. Pulitzer Prize winner Jacqui Banaszynski, managing editor of the Seattle Times and former St. Paul Pioneer Press feature writer, will deliver the workshop's final keynote address on Sunday afternoon.
Other speakers and panelists include Susan Ager of the Detroit Free Press, Edgar Award-winning author David Liss, Jan Jarboe Russell of Texas Monthly, literary agent Deborah Grosvenor, columnist Rick Casey of the Houston Chronicle, Kelly McBride of the Poynter Institute, and sports columnist Paul Daughtery of the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Among the concurrent news writing topics the workshop will cover are how to generate story ideas, story endings, how to ask great questions, reporters and their sources, covering cops, the power of focus, profile writing, covering sexual violence, scene construction, narrative writing, immersion reporting, business writing, and the ethics and art of reconstructing scenes.
A Saturday morning book writing panel includes Buchanan, Liss, Russell, and agent Grosvenor.
Tuition is $75 until April 23; $85 until May 20; and $100 at the door. Student and educator rates are $50, $55, and $65 for registration through those dates. For registration on-line go to http://www2.mysanantonio.com/promotions/nww/.
