Writers’ Roundtable
March 18th 7:00-9:30 pm
BCC
BCC students have a variety of avenues to express themselves in writing – Chips, The Tattler in print and online, and several writing competitions. We often meet students who aspire to work in journalism and/or write fiction. But with the diminishing influence of written publications, students are wondering if there is a future in journalism and writing.
To help address this concern, we are inviting students, parents and BCC community members to a panel discussion of distinguished journalists and fiction writers moderated by Ron Charles, Deputy Editor of Washington Post’s Book World. A full list of speakers follows.
Refreshments and desserts will be served, and then we will hear from the panel followed by questions and answers. The purpose of the event is twofold: to help students understand the issues associated with careers in writing and journalism and to raise funds for BCC’s Chips, Tattler and Tattlerextra.org.
Ticket for dessert and discussion = $10
To RSVP, click here.
Special thanks for the generous donations from Washington Deli & Georgetown Cupcakes
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Moderator and panelists
Ron Charles (moderator) is deputy editor and a weekly fiction critic of The Washington Post “Book World”, the book review section of the Post. Before joining Book World in 2005, Ron Charles was the book review editor and staff critic for seven years at The Christian Science Monitor. Charles won the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award Nona Balakian Citation for book reviews
Janet Hook (panelist, representing print news journalism) has covered Congress and national politics for the Los Angeles Times since 1995. Previously, she was senior writer at Congressional Quarterly for 12 years. From 1979 to 1983 she was assistant editor at the Chronicle of Higher Education. In 1993, she was awarded the John S. Knight Fellowship for Professional Journalists and the Everett Dirksen Award for her distinguished reporting on Congress. In 2002, she won the American Political Science Association’s annual award for political reporting. Her freelance articles and book reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Republic and the Washington Monthly. She has also made television appearances on PBS’ “Washington Week” and C-SPAN and been a guest on NPR.
Richard L. Harris (panelist, representing broadcast journalism) is former director of afternoon news programming at NPR, where he supervised “All Things Considered,” “Talk of the Nation” and “Tell Me More.” While there he also served as interim managing editor. Previously he spent 19 years as senior producer for ABC News’ “Nightline” and was also senior producer for “This Week with George Stephanopoulos.” For “Nightline,” he developed a series of conversations between anchor Ted Koppel and Morrie Schwartz, a Brandeis University sociology professor dying of Lou Gehrig’s disease, that prompted reporter Mitch Albom to visit his former professor and resulted in the best-selling book Tuesdays with Morrie. He also produced town meetings between Israelis and Palestinians in Jerusalem and between blacks and whites in South Africa. In addition, he collaborated with Koppel at the Discovery Channel on a town meeting on the collision between national security and civil liberties in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks.
Steve Hull (panelist, repesenting Magazine writing and publishing) is editor and publisher of Bethesda Magazine. Hull has been in the magazine publishing business for more than 20 years. Before starting Bethesda Magazine, he spent 14 years as a senior executive with Atlantic Media Company (formerly National Journal Group), which publishes The Atlantic Monthly and National Journal. Prior to that, Hull was an editor of several business-to-business magazines, a newspaper reporter and editor, and a press secretary in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Gary Michael Krist (panelist, representing fiction and nonfiction writing) is an American writer of fiction, nonfiction, travel journalism, and literary criticism. Before turning to narrative nonfiction with The White Cascade (2007), a book about the 1910 Wellington avalanche, Krist wrote three novels–Bad Chemistry (1998), Chaos Theory (2000), and Extravagance (2002). He has also written two short story collections–The Garden State (1988) and Bone by Bone (1994). His satire pieces have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post Outlook section, and Newsday, and his stories, articles, and travel pieces have been featured in National Geographic Traveler, The Wall Street Journal, GQ, Playboy, The New Republic, Esquire, and on National Public Radio’s “Selected Shorts.” He has been the recipient of The Stephen Crane Award, the Sue Kaufman Prize from The American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Lowell Thomas Gold Medal for Travel Journalism, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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