Fancy yourself a science writer? Do you like weather?
The National Center for Atmospheric Research (right here in Boulder!) is holding a four-day science writing workshop on June 23-27, and they’re looking for applicants. This will be fully funded (well, there are five fellowships), but you have to have the chops: they’re looking for applicants with "five years of writing, producing, or editing experience for a general-interest audience," as an example.
I normally don’t post things such as this, but NCAR is way way cool, and I support fully what they do. And, of course, we need more trained science writers, trained specifically in topics of interest and import. I know a few pro writers read my humble blog, so apply! The application deadline is May 16.
April 28th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
An off-topic note: your website loads extremely slow. I mean 45 seconds or more until I see anything. Happens from the three biggest ISPs in Reno, NV.
April 28th, 2008 at 10:32 pm
Well damn. I’d definately be interested in this, but I don’t have 5 years of writing experience (although I did just hit my 2 year bloggoversary).
Oh, and your site loads fine for me. A few seconds, but this is typical.
April 29th, 2008 at 9:07 am
At first glance I read “NASCAR journalism fellowship” and I thought: “What the heck, do you actually need to be a journalist to write about cars going in a circle?”
April 29th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
If it was for NASCAR, an author would find itself writing about the fine art of turning left.
April 29th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
Darn! I’ll be in Lithuania. That would have been very interesting.