Browsing Posts published on 2009/06/13

The 2009 OWAA conference in Grand Rapids, MI. got off to a flying start this morning with a 4-hour marathon crash course in outdoor communications drew 50 attentive participants, many of them students from the Grand Rapids area. Dubbed “Becoming an Outdoors Communicator,” this session aimed at newcomers but also attended by a handful of [...]

John Beath, first VP of OWAA, is talking about his career as an outdoor writer. First thing he told us – he’s the only person he knows whose prenuptual agreement specified that he would do a lot of hunting & fishing. Writers come to their career from a variety of angles. John got D’s in [...]

Hey, I made it. Got here last night in time to learn that I had the opportunity to speak at the Becoming an Outdoor Communicator workshop on getting into radio, as a stand-in for Jim Junttila, who had to cancel at the last minute. I was already scheduled to speak on getting into TV, but [...]