Reminders & Extras

We look forward to the final versions of your #s stories, due Sunday 4/19 at 11:59 PM in this folder.

Grammar rules (make me proud!)

Here is the feature story semester recap ppt:

Where to read good feature articles:

1. The National Magazine Awards, AKA as Ellies (the Academy Awards of our profession), honors the best of the best every year. Here’s where you can read the most recent winners and finalists. (Below see my EXTREMELY happy friend Erin with one of the two Ellies she won for creating her own kids’ magazine, Kazoo!)
2. Barry Yeoman, a journalism professor at Duke, chooses his best longform magazine stories of the year. He has very good taste. Read his lists here.
3. I found Tatiana Schlossberg’s New Yorker essay, “A Battle with My Blood,” (just before her death) extremely lovely and moving. (She used to cover climate for the NYT.)
4. I LOVE this reported personal essay by Reginald Dwayne Betts.
5. In class I mentioned this Gwyneth Paltrow profile which is as much about the very funny writer, Taffy-Brodesser-Akner, as it is the actress.
6. Finally, read quality fiction if you want writing/stylistic inspiration. I’m really enjoying Kin by Tayari Jones. The specificity and detail in her writing is remarkable. Before that I read “The Safekeep” the 2024 Booker Prize winner. And “The Great Black Hope,” a propulsive debut novel, set in NYC by a very young writer.