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Friday, March 28, 2008 

Don fry to offer writing workshop

Unfortunately, Kate Long will no longer be hosting tomorrow's writing workshop at the spring conference (and she won't be on the povery panel, either) due to a nasty bout of the flu.

Nevertheless, reknowned writing coach Don Fry -- formerly with the Poynter Institute -- will be taking her place. Here's a little more about him:

Don Fry, the dean of newsroom writing coaches, has generously agreed on short notice to fill in for Kate Long, who had to cancel. Fry began a second career as a globe-trotting writing coach for journalists in 1984, after he had already established himself as a scholar and professor of Anglo-Saxon literature at the University of Virginia. He has published Believing the News (1986), Color In American Newspapers, with Mario Garcia, and Coaching Writers with Roy Peter Clark (2nd edition 2003). Previously affiliated with the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, he has been an independent writing coach, based in Charlottesville, since 1994.

The W&L SPJ chapter offers many thanks to Mr. Fry for filling in on such short notice!

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- Nicole
3:21 PM

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