(Tucson, AZ) Beginning January 10, author, journalist, editor, publisher, photographer, lecturer, traveler, and self-proclaimed desert rat Gregory McNamee will host a series of free workshops for writers at two libraries:
Planning Your Nonfiction Writing Project
- Wednesday, January 10 at Wheeler Taft Abbett Sr Library
- Wednesday, February 7 at Joyner-Green Valley Library
Strategies for Self-Publishing
- Wednesday, January 17 at Wheeler Taft Abbett Sr Library (Registration is full)
- Wednesday, February 14 at Joyner-Green Valley Library
Blogs and Other Social Media for Writers
- Wednesday, January 24 at Wheeler Taft Abbett Sr Library (Registration is full)
- Wednesday, February 21 at Joyner-Green Valley Library
Travel Photography
- Wednesday, January 31 at Wheeler Taft Abbett Sr Library
- Wednesday, February 28 at Joyner-Green Valley Library
All workshops will run from 10 am to noon and include one ten-minute break. Enrollment is limited and advance registration is required. Interested individuals can click on the links above for more information about how and when to register.
About Gregory McNamee
Gregory McNamee is a writer, editor, photographer, and publisher. He is the author or title-page editor of more than 40 books and author of more than 6,000 periodical pieces, including articles, essays, reviews, interviews, editorials, poems, and short stories.
McNamee is the editor of Zócalo, an arts-and-culture magazine published in Tucson. He is a contributing editor to the Encyclopaedia Britannica. He is also a contributing editor to Kirkus Reviews, the leading publication of the book trade. He writes regularly for many other journals and sites, and his work has appeared in such venues as Science, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Outside, Smithsonian, AARP, and Native Peoples.
McNamee operates Sonora Wordworks, an editorial and publishing service, and he has been involved in the publication of more than 500 books. He is also the publisher of Polytropos Press.
McNamee is a lecturer in the Economics Department of the Eller College of Management and a research associate at the Southwest Center of the University of Arizona. He is also a longtime member of the Speakers Bureau of Arizona Humanities.
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