nthWORD Shorts

Support VT-Made Music at Kickstarter.com

Big Heavy World in Burlington, Vermont is a volunteer-run organization that does everything humanly possible to support the musicians of Vermont. It's toally inclusive, and mostly teenagers and college-aged volunteers are the crew. Click here to lean more about and to support the project to help BHW get a much-needed new server. Look for the interview with James Lockridge, Executive Director and Founder of BHW, in the next issue of nthWORD.

Next Generation Writers: Science & Tech Fellowship

To Think - To Write - To Publish is a program for "next generation" writers of any genre with an interest in science and technology. Learn creative nonfiction techniques. Develop and pitch ideas to book and magazine editors and literary agents. Publish your work. Featuring two intense days of writing, highlighted by an intimate and practical workshop with Lee Gutkind, author and editor of Creative Nonfiction Magazine and a conversation with New York Times science writer, Gina Kolata and Vice President and senior editor for Free Press, Leslie Meredith. Participants will enjoy an all expenses paid, five day retreat as the guest of the Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes at Arizona State University, including a stay at the Mission Palms Hotel, Tempe, Arizona, plus a $500 honorarium. Application deadline is March 15, 2010. For more details see our flier. If you have specific questions, contact 2think2write2publish@gmail.com or to apply: simply send a bio and letter of interest to CSPO@asu.edu.

Creative Nonfiction is an approach to writing that presents substance with style, using creative and fiction writing technique to convey academic research and scientific information in an engaging way to a popular and commercial audience. Lee Gutkind and the Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes are looking for new voices in writing, the "next generation" of communicators intensive two-day writing workshop will bring together new writers and communicators to collaborate with technology and policy scholars and pitch their ideas to professional editors and literary agents. All of the participants' expenses will be paid as well as a $500 honorarium. I hope that you will help us get the word out. The application deadline is March 15th and the conference is May 15-16th.

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