The author of Writing Tools and the dean of America’s writing coaches – and the senior czar of the Poynter Institute for Media Studies – Roy Peter Clark plays accordion and guitar, coaches audience members in the chicken dance and offers a benediction, telling us what every writer needs to know.
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Posted June 3rd, 2010 by clee. No Comments »
Author Andrea Billups talks about writing about crime and the true story behind her book, Slaying in the Suburbs.
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his reporting for the Washington Post, David Finkel was lavished with praise for his 2009 book, The Good Soldiers. The New York Times named it one of the top five non-fiction books of the year. His stories of the lives of infantrymen in Iraq was compared with the writing of Ernie Pyle.
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Author Ellis Amburn talks with the Alligator’s Jon Silman about the transition from successful book editor (of Kerouac and Vonnegut) to successful author.
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Winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for her heartbreaking “Girl in the Window” for the St. Petersburg Times, Lane DeGregory is an expert at finding stories off the beaten path and shares her secrets of conjuring great stories.
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Posted June 1st, 2010 by clee. No Comments »
Authors John Capouya (Gorgeous George), William McKeen (Outlaw Journalist) and Ellis Amburn (Pearl: The Life of Janis Joplin, among many others) talk about writing biographies of the famous and infamous.
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Song writers Keith Sykes (Jimmy Buffett’s “Volcano,” many others) and Tom Corcoran (Buffett’s “Fins”) discuss their craft.
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Posted May 27th, 2010 by clee. No Comments »
Authors Tom Corcoran (Hawk Channel Chase) and Tim Dorsey (Gator A-Go-Go) discuss “Writing the Great Florida Novel.”
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Liz Balmaseda won the feature-writing Pulitzer while working for the Miami Herald and published her first novel, Sweet Mary, in 2009. Fabiola Santiago, a Herald veteran who shared in two Pulitzers, published her first novel, Reclaiming Paris, and is finishing her second. Here they discuss navigating the fact-to-fiction transition.
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his “Angels and Demons” series for the St. Petersburg Times, French is the author of the forthcoming Zoo Story, as well as Unanswered Cries and South of Heaven, in which he spent a year reporting on life inside a high school.
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