Improve Your Journalism Skills, Experience Scenic Montana Outdoors
OutdoorHub 05.30.12
Do you dream of getting paid to travel and explore the outdoors? Need continuing education credits for your teaching certificate? Improve your writing and photography skills July 22-28 at the 2012 Goldenrod Writing Workshop. Open to both novice communicators and published professionals, it caters to communicators and educators interested in topics such as travel, nature, environment and more. The annual Goldenrod Writing Workshop will be hosted by the Outdoor Writers Association of America at the scenic University of Montana in Missoula.
OWAA has arranged for educational/continuing education credit hours to be issued through the Montana Office of Public Instruction. 15 credit hours will be awarded for attendance in all resident-faculty sessions. Partial credit is not available and students will need resident faculty to sign-off on their attendance. Non-Montana residents should check with your state prior to attendance to ensure credits will transfer. College academic credit is not available at this time.
Deadline for application is June 15, 2012. Enrollment is limited to 30 students, and it’s on a first come, first served basis. The $995 fee includes tuition and room and board in University of Montana campus housing. The application also requires a $250 non-refundable deposit; in the rare event the workshop is canceled, a full refund will be issued.
The workshop will highlight the contributions of three resident faculty members: Lisa Densmore, a book author, photographer, TV producer and Emmy-award winner from Montana; book author and award-winning back-page columnist and humor writer Alan Liere from Spokane, Wash.; and environmental writer and University of Wyoming professor Jeff Lockwood.
The writing workshop will also include afternoon visiting faculty sessions with Jack Ballard, Joel Vance and Gail Jokerst; off-site activities on Wednesday afternoon; an opportunity for student readings at the end of the week; and a celebratory farewell BBQ hosted at a local park on Friday night.
This workshop works to promote both expansion of creativity and craft improvement in the outdoor communication field as well as excitement and passion for writing.
For more information and to apply, visit www.owaa.org/goldenrod-writing-workshop.
