Dear Mayborn Tribe,
Have you heard about the American Association of Sunday and Feature Editors? AASFE is an organization of editors and other journalists from the United States and Canada dedicated to the quality of features and the craft of feature writing in newspapers and online. AASFE supports its membership with an annual conference, which will be held at the swanky Hotel ZaZa in Houston’s Museum District in Houston, TX October 15-18.
AASFE offers inspiring programming: Speakers will include David Maraniss, the Washington Post editor who worked on the Pulitzer Prize-winning Walter Reed investigation; Mimi Swartz, executive editor of Texas Monthly; Constance Hale, director of the Nieman Narrative program; and award-winning novelists Ana Castillo and Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni.
This year AASFE is inviting journalism faculty and students to join at the discounted registration rate of $150 and hotel rooms for $99 a night. AASFE is providing time for students to consult one-on-one with editors. For $75, faculty and students can also attend one day of the conference — either Thursday, Friday, or Saturday’s morning sessions and Saturday afternoon consults with editors.
All faculty and journalism students who attend will also receive a year’s free membership in AASFE.
Go to www.aasfehouston.com for more information. Go to www.aasfe.org to register.
I plan to attend this conference. Hope to see you there.
Adios,
George Getschow
Writer-in-Residence
The Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Writers Conference of the Southwest
