The UW News office, together with editors at The Conversation, is hosting workshops for UW-affiliated faculty, postdocs, graduate students and other researchers interested in writing about their areas of expertise for mainstream audiences.

Due to overwhelming demand, we've opened up a larger seminar-style session here. This is open to UW researchers and campus communicators. Read more about the seminar and register at the link above.

Each hour-long workshop will be led by an editor at The Conversation, a news analysis website that publishes articles on timely issues written by academics who draw upon their expertise and research. The information you will learn will also be applicable to writing for other news outlets. You will also have the opportunity to meet – if you haven’t already – members of the UW News team who are here to help get your work out to the media through story pitches, op-ed and analysis assistance and news releases.

In the workshops, the editors will provide tips and strategies for translating academic research and expertise on topics into analysis articles appropriate for newspapers, magazines, journals, online forums and more.

While each workshop will be led by an editor of a different section of The Conversation, the topic is not a prerequisite for attending; sign up for a session that best fits your expertise, or just your schedule. UW News public information officers will attend each session. Please only sign up for one session.

Tuesday, May 4, 8:30-9:30 a.m. - Science & Technology
Thursday, May 6, 9:30-10:30 a.m. - Energy & Environment
Friday, May 7, 10:30-11:30 a.m. - Politics & Society
Tuesday, May 11, 8:30-9:30 a.m. - Science, Health, Environment
Wednesday, May 12, 10:30-11:30 a.m. - Health
Friday, May 14, 10:30-11:30 a.m. - Politics & Society
Tuesday, May 18, 8:30-9:30 a.m. - Health
Wednesday, May 19, 10:30-11:30 a.m. - Environment
Thursday, May 20, 9:30-10:30 a.m. Seminar — register here

All sessions are in Pacific Time.

These workshops will not be recorded.

In order to keep the workshops useful and hands-on, there is a limit of 10 people per session, but there will be a waitlist in case of cancellations. If you sign up and then later cannot make it, please let us know or release your spot for someone else.

The deadline to register is 48 hours prior to the start of each session.

Questions? Contact us at uwnews@uw.edu.

Registrations are closed

Writing workshops for UW researchers