So you wanna be a sportswriter?

February 6, 2008

Received this e-mail from Dugoutcentral.com:

DugoutCentral is pleased to announce that the winners of its Spring Training Writing Contest will receive free, one-on-one consulting with esteemed writing coach Susan White for the first half of the 2008 MLB season. For those fan writers who are serious about improving their skills, this is a unique opportunity.Susan White has spent 40 years as a writing coach, editor and writer for newspapers and magazines, including The San Diego Union-Tribune, the Lexington (Ky) Herald-Leader and Indianapolis magazine. Reporters she has coached have won numerous national awards, including the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. She is especially drawn to smart, strong-willed people who are open to new ideas and determined to do their best work. Susan served as a nominating juror for the Pulitzer Prizes in 2003 and 2004.

Two winners will be selected – one by reader voting and the other by a jury of Mike Pagliarulo, Adam White and Steve Caimano – based on writer performance from February 15 to March 30, 2008.

Susan will work with each winner to develop and write a weekly feature article from March 31st to July 15th, 2008.

In addition, the writers’ weekly articles will then be featured on www.DugoutCentral.com as a featured columns.

 

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