The next ABSW BRIEFING is on FEATURE WRITING FOR SPECIALIST PRESS
When: MONDAY JUNE 6, pre-event drinks at 6.30 pm. 7pm start.
Where: Science Media Centre, 21 Albemarle St, London W1S 4BS
(http://www.sciencemediacentre.org/findus.htm)
Speakers: Clare Wilson, Stuart Clark, Nina Hall
Chair: Rick Stevenson
The formal proceedings will take place from 7pm -8pm. More drinks and snacks
will follow.
RSVP by email to [log in to unmask]
BIOGS
Clare Wilson is the medical features editor at New Scientist magazine. Her job
involves generating feature ideas by visiting labs, attending conferences and
scanning medical journals, then commissioning and editing the resulting
features and taking them through the production process. Clare's first job in
journalism was as a science reporter on Scrip, a twice-weekly newsletter for
the pharmaceutical industry, and she then moved on to Doctor, a weekly
magazine for GPs. Clare has a BSc in Cell Biology from Manchester University.
Stuart Clark is a writer with twenty years' experience. He has a PhD in
astrophysics and so far this year has worked for New Scientist, The Economist,
Focus, the European Space Agency and The Royal Society. He is the editor of
Astronomy Now and is currently working on his thirteenth book, The Sun Kings,
about the Victorians who witnessed the greatest solar explosion in recorded
history.
Nina Hall is a freelance science writer and editor, mostly working in the
physical sciences, who has in the past been a features editor on several
well-known science magazines. She prides herself in being able to turn the
most difficult and dry science into something readable (and accurate) with the
aid of good visual material. She gets a kick out of helping scientists put
across their ideas, and is a dab hand at ghost-writing material for them.
Chair: Rick Stevenson worked on Chemistry in Britain magazine for 25 years, as
features editor, news editor, deputy editor, and the last 11 as editor -
though he's actually a geologist by background! Since 2003 he has been a
freelance writer. He was chairman of the ABSW from 1996 to 1998.
PLEASE NOTE:
New joiners should fill out the membership form (the 2005 updated form can be
found at http://www.absw.org.uk/Membership.htm) and bring it along with their
subscription fees as detailed on the form.
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