Desk Notes Newsletter, December 16, 2020
Inside the December 2020 issue: It's #SciWriAwards and member renewal season! Join us for virtual networking, sign up for our SciWriKids discussion list, meet a new member, & more.
Featured news
Meet new member Avery Hurt
Avery Hurt, a freelance science writer and a new addition to the NASW community, shares #WhySciWri in this short Q&A.
Randy Mayfield with Beth Miller—One Life: Your Gift Will Make a Way!
NASW member Beth Miller teamed up with her lifelong friend, singer, songwriter, and pastor Randy Mayfield to produce Mayfield’s memoir, One Life: Your Gift Will Make a Way!. The book describes Mayfield’s many humanitarian missions around the world, which include providing aid for orphanages in India, food and clean water programs in Haiti, and job training programs for Kurdish refugees in Iraq.
Desk Notes Newsletter, November 18, 2020
Inside the November 2020 edition: Catch up on ScienceWriters2020 coverage, NASW-NWU partnership resolves nonpayment grievance case, volunteers recognized with McGurgan Award, & more.
Bijal P. Trivedi—Breath from Salt: A Deadly Genetic Disease, a New Era in Science, and the Patients and Families Who Changed Medicine Forever
For cystic fibrosis, a hereditary disease often fatal in early decades of life, parents raised millions of dollars to support research by scientists working at the cutting edge of gene therapies. Bijal P. Trivedi ties these threads together in her riveting narrative Breath from Salt: A Deadly Genetic Disease, a New Era in Science, and the Patients and Families Who Changed Medicine Forever.
NASW-NWU partnership resolves another nonpayment grievance case
When a publication folds and writers get ghosted on payment for their work, NASW’s Grievance Partnership with the National Writers Union (NWU) can help.
Meet new member Sam Apple
Sam Apple, faculty program coordinator of the MA in Science Writing program at Johns Hopkins University and a new addition to the NASW community, shares #WhySciWri in this short Q&A.