Write Your Heart Out, Poynter and Seattle Times, Nov. 17

Write Your Heart Out, Poynter and Seattle Times

When: Saturday, November 17, from 9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m

Where: Seattle Public Library

What: Join The Seattle Times and The Poynter Institute for a workshop dedicated to writing excellence.Whether you’re crafting a family history, school projects, emails at work, journalism pieces or the next bestselling novel, you will gain the skills and insights needed to improve your writing.

Who:

• Roy Peter Clark, Poynter’s senior scholar has written or edited 15 books on writing and journalism, the most popular and influential being Writing Tools: 50 Strategies for Every Writer. The New york Times Book Review praised Clark’s latest book, The Glamour of Grammar, as “a manual for the 21st century.”
• Jess Walter is the author of one nonfiction book and six novels, most recently the New York Times bestseller, Beautiful Ruins. A winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award, he has been a finalist for the National Book Award, the LA Times Book Prize and the PEN USA Award in both literary fiction and nonfiction.
• Nancy Rawles is a writer and teacher. Her books deal with issues of race, gender and class in American culture. She enjoys the vigorous debates surrounding public education, and her latest book, Miz Sparks Is On Fire And This Ain’t No Drill, explores the challenges of teaching in the public schools.
• Jim Lynch is the author of three acclaimed novels set in the Northwest. The Highest Tide won the 2006 Pacific Northwest Bookseller Award and was an international bestseller. Border Songs won the 2009 Washington State Book Award for fiction. The New York Times has called Lynch a “gifted and original novelist.”
• Jacqui Banaszynski, Knight Chair professor at the Missouri School of Journalism, was a reporter and editor for more than 30 years, most recently with The Seattle Times. While a reporter at the St. Paul Pioneer Press, her 1988 series, “AIDS in the Heartland,” chronicled the lives and deaths of a gay farm couple and won the Pulitzer.

How Much: $195 Ticket (includes lunch) ~ Limited seating

How: Register online