Rachel Louise Snyder, author and host of National Public Radio’s “Global Guru” is scheduled to join a panel discussion on writers in radio at the annual AWP Conference in Washington, DC.
The Association of Writers and Writing Programs will sponsor the panel, “Listening to Literature: Opportunities for Writers in Public Radio.”
The discussion will center around broadcasting careers for writers, and literature’s place on the radio waves.
Other NPR personalities on the panel include Maureen Corrigan of “Fresh Air,”Sarah Koenig of “This American Life,” and Chris Turpin of “All Things Considered”
The panel will be held on Friday, Feb 4 at 12 noon in the Virginia A Room at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel.
Snyder is the author of Fugitive Denim: A Moving Story of People and Pants in the Borderless World of Global Trade’ (WW Norton 2007) and professor of literary journalism at The American University in Washington, DC.
The Association of Writer’s and Writing Programs will hold their annual conference in Washington, DC in 2011. The conference, Feb 2 through the 5, will take place at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel and the Omni Shoreham Hotel. Registration is required. Please go to http://www.awpwriter.org/conference for more information.
-Jay Melder
Global Guru Radio 