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Healing Others Through Writing
Candy Arrington kept diaries and prayer journals as a young child, although at the time, she didn’t necessarily fancy becoming a writer. Still, she says, “I have always been intrigued by words, their cadence and their meaning.”
It wasn’t until the late 1990s that she realized how powerful her writing could be. Arrington was attending a church retreat, and while sleeping, “woke up with words dancing in my head.” She found a piece of paper and furiously scribbled the thoughts swirling in her brain.
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ASJA
We’re getting close to the end of February and we haven’t received an ASJA renewal from some of you — yet! We love having you as a member and would hate for you to miss out on all the great stuff we have planned.
Coming up are our SIGs, which opened up today. We have some great topics to help you build a better business and life around work, including:
- Using Twitter to Build Your Dream Platform and Get Better Clients with Linsey Knerl
- How to Freelance When You have Young Children with Claire Zulkey
- Transform Yourself from the Inside Out to Reach Your Writing Goals with Christina Chan
The deadline is at the end of the month, on Feb. 28, and we’re looking forward to creating a better future ahead with you. Say Yes! Please Renew! Click here.
ASJA
The next Virtual Client Connections is fast approaching — March 20-23, 2018. This is a very unique offering for ASJA professional members where you don't have to leave your computer or home office and can still have "face-to-face" meetings with editors via Skype or phone. Appointments are on a first-come, first-served basis. More information is forthcoming but in the meantime please mark your calendars for March 6-8. Sign-up will begin at 2 p.m. ET on March 6. Appointments will be set up by March 12. Remember that this is on a first-come, first-served basis, so being available at 2 p.m. ET on March 6 is recommended (or, you can have another member or a family member sign you up if you are not able to yourself).
Information will be provided next week about the editors who have signed up and what they are looking for in terms of pitches and writer connections. Included in that list is Endless Vacation (custom publication for timeshare owners and publishing travel content); Narrative.ly (great market for essays); Smithsonian online (looking for culture and history pitches) and Westways Magazine (AAA's West Coast magazine).
Questions about the process? Feel free to reach out to VCC Chair Kristine Hansen at kristinehansenwriter@gmail.com or check out our FAQs here.
ASJA
The latest ASJA Special Interest Groups are now posted! Registration opened today at noon for March SIGs on SEO strategies, using Twitter to build your platform, freelancing as a parent of young children, and setting — and reaching — goals by looking inward.
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| Win a Free Member's Day — Enter Our Client Connections 2018 Contest!
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ASJA
Prosperous freelancers know there’s enough success to go around, and that we all do better when we work together. Fortunately, there’s an easy way to help your fellow writers find work and your clients connect with other top-notch talent, all while earning some bonus perks for yourself.
Here’s how it works: personally invite the editors and agents in your network to be a part of Client Connections, the afternoon of one-on-one, nine-minute meetings to be held Fri., May 18, at the ASJA Annual Conference in New York City.
The ASJA member who recruits the most Client Connections editors can attend Member’s Day 2018 for FREE! (If you register for the conference and then win the contest, you’ll be reimbursed the cost of Member’s Day.)
To enter:
- Look through your contacts for editors of publications, hospitals, nonprofits, universities and content marketing agencies located in the greater New York City area.
- Send a quick email to Contest Coordinator Cindy Kuzma (cindy@cindykuzma.com) telling her whom you want to invite. Cindy will send you the invitation to forward to your clients.
- Invite your clients to the 2018 Client Connections event via email, or give them a call.
- Once your client registers, you’ll receive one point towards the free Member’s Day Prize. All editors must register by April 29.
Client Connections will only be as good as the contacts you help us find! Thanks for helping your fellow writers.
| Want to Share Your Expertise? We're Looking for SIG Leaders
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ASJA
If you've been thinking to yourself, "Self, how do I get more involved in ASJA?" we've got your answer: sign up to lead a Special Interest Group (SIG). SIGs are small (up to 12 people) private groups that meet on a special section of the forum to discuss a particular topic. Past SIGs have included six-figuring freelancing, travel, content marketing, history writing, corporate writing and more. Future SIGs will include...well, that's where you come in! SIG wrangler Kate Silver is open to your ideas. To be a good SIG leader, you need to be willing to dedicate time, lead and contribute to discussions and share your own expertise. To get involved, email Kate at thekatesilver@gmail.com.
Society of Environmental Journalists
The Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust, in association with the Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ) and Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), announce the Nina Mason Pulliam Award for Outstanding Environmental Reporting, to be presented for the first time in 2018. The award includes a $10,000 cash prize.
The Nina Mason Pulliam Award will recognize the “best of the best” of environmental reporting. The winning entry will be chosen from among the first-place winners of SEJ’s seven award categories, and will be recognized at SEJ’s 28th Annual Conference in Flint, MI, Oct. 3-7. In addition to the cash prize, the award includes up to $2500 to cover registration, travel and hotel expenses for the winner, or representatives of the winning team, to attend the annual SEJ conference.
Stories entered in SEJ’s Awards for Reporting on the Environment that are judged to be first-place winners are automatically considered for the Nina Mason Pulliam Award for Outstanding Environmental Reporting.
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MediaShift
Are we seeing the end of financially independent, free-spirited journalism on the web?
The signs point to an answer that’s not encouraging. Independent publications, large and small, are struggling or shuttering. Legacy publications, too, are contracting. There are a few standout successes, and there’s still a path for the would-be journalistic entrepreneur — but that path is narrowing.
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The Content Standard by Skyword
“Aww, cute. You’re a mommy blogger.”
That’s what a friend said when I told her I was leaving traditional employment to start working for myself. You might think she didn’t know that I was a managing editor for a content agency before going solo or that I had a graduate degree in creative writing. But she did. In fact, we’d had many conversations about my work writing for brands and businesses. She pigeonholed me as a mommy blogger because I’m a female parent who writes for a living.
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Forbes
Every freelancer has some version of the same problem: You wonder why your clients are so difficult, why they don't value you, and why they don't pay you what you’re worth. And yet you continue to do and say all the things that set this relationship in motion.
The default freelance model in most industries grinds people up and spits them out.
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Poynter
With each new mass shooting or terrorist attack, the norms of reporting and publishing information about them seem to shift in dramatic ways.
We know the reason: smartphones and social media. The combination means information is coming from all sides, fast and furious — and too often wrong or misleading.
We saw that again during the high school shooting in South Florida that killed 17 people on Feb. 14. As word of the shooting spread, so did fake tweets, dramatic and graphic videos from inside and outside the school, and text messages shared via screenshots.
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