The “Science Writing by Storytelling Master Class” took place Feb. 18-19, 2019, following the AAAS meeting in Washington, D.C.
Organized by Elizabeth Pennisi, senior correspondent at Science, and David Malakoff, deputy news editor at Science, the workshop was supported by a Peggy Girshman Idea Grant from NASW. Twenty-one writers attended.
The first day of the workshop included presentations by:
- Steve Hall, a freelancer and science-writing teacher at NYU
- Cathy Alter, a freelancer and narrative non-fiction teacher for Johns Hopkins
- Siri Carpenter, editor of The Open Notebook
- Laura Helmuth, science, health and environment editor at The Washington Post
- David Malakoff, deputy news editor at Science.
These presenters then led small group discussions with participants.
The second day comprised presentations by three writer-editor pairs about their work on narrative pieces. They were:
- Ross Anderson and Sarah Zhang (story from The Atlantic)
- Tim Appenzeller and Steve Hall (story from National Geographic)
- David Malakoff and Eli Kintisch (story from Science).
This was followed by a session on resources and a wrap-up discussion with Malakoff.
Watch a video of the presentations on the ScienceWriters YouTube channel. (Steve Hall was not videotaped.)
The following PDF documents are PowerPoint slides and resource sheets from the workshop.
