May 5, 2015
Join the Chicago Writers Association and the Illinois Woman’s Press Association for a FREE networking event Saturday, July 11, 6:00-9:30 p.m., at Pizzeria Serio, 1708 W. Belmont, Ave., Chicago. Mix and mingle with new friends and professional contacts, while learning new tricks of the trade from seasoned publishing successes. Cash bar and complimentary pizza.
Featuring special guest speaker: Pamela Ferdinand, co-author of the CWA Book of the Year Award-winning book, “Three Wishes: Our True Story of Good Friends, Crushing Heartbreak, and Astonishing Luck on Our Way to Love and Motherhood,” a triple memoir published by Little, Brown & Co.
An award-winning journalist for major U.S. newspapers–including The Boston Globe, Miami Herald, and Washington Post–for more than a decade, Pamela has covered breaking news from Hurricane Andrew and the crash of TWA Flight 800 to the Roman Catholic church crisis and New England’s connections to the September 11 terrorism attacks. She served as The Washington Post’s New England correspondent in Boston for six years and was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2003-2004.
Pamela now teaches journalism and creative non-fiction and is the Communications Manager for Literature for All of Us, an Evanston program that works with primarily African-American young people and their families. Karen Thomson, founder of Literature for All of Us, will also be a special guest during the program
More details will be announced soon! To reserve your spot, please email your RSVP with headcount to iwpa1885@gmail.com.
We look forward to seeing you this summer!
