Freelance Feature Writing for Magazines and Newspapers

If you search freelance feature writing, you will find numerous of the “best” of jobs or “how-to” according to the current trends. Freelance Feature Writing for Magazines and Newspapers is a 6-week course designed to give students the tools necessary to write articles that could be submitted for publication.

The following are recommended, but not required for the course. Participants may purchase, rent or see excerpts from each online. Prices are low if you did decide to purchase.  If you choose to buy one or more of these texts, please bring them to each class.

• Bragg, Rick. Somebody Told Me: The Newspaper Stories of Rick Bragg (2000).
• True Stories: A Nonfiction Writer’s Guide from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University. Kramer, Mark and Wendy Call. (eds.) Plume. 2007.
• An online or traditional dictionary.
• An online or traditional thesaurus.
• Writer’s Market 2016: The Most Trusted Guide to Getting Published. Edited by Robert Lee Brewer.