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Writefest is a week-long writers’ festival taking place virtually and in-person in Houston, TX. It is hosted by Writespace, Houston’s grassroots nonprofit literary arts center. The festival kicks off with a series of Monday-Thursday workshops and culminates in a weekend filled with panels and presentations by local and national writers, agents and book editors, literary journal editors of all genres, and readings by local and nationally-recognized authors.

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Sunday, May 1 • 11:00am - 12:00pm
Magazine and Nonfiction Writing in the Digital Age

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Where do you get your headlines? MSN, Yahoo, Google, Facebook News? The days of sitting down at the breakfast table with your coffee and newspaper are no longer the norm. People are turning more and more to the internet for their news and information sources. From the shorter deadlines to SEOs to editing challenges, it’s still a new medium that is growing fast. This panel of journalists and feature writers discuss navigating this ever-changing medium and the benefits and challenges of the fast-paced works of digital nonfiction writing.

Moderator: Doni Wilson
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Doni Wilson

Doni Wilson received her doctorate in English from UNC-Chapel Hill. She is Professor of English at Houston Baptist University, and focuses on creative nonfiction and writing about the arts.
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Anjali Enjeti

Anjali Enjeti is a former attorney, organizer, and journalist based near Atlanta. She is the author of Southbound: Essays on Identity, Inheritance, and Social Change, and the debut novel, The Parted Earth. Her writing about politics, social justice, and books has appeared in The Oxford American, Harper’s BAZAAR, Poets & Writers, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Boston Globe, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of awards from the South Asian Journalists Association and the American Society of Journalists and Authors, two notable essays in Best... Read More →
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Ammar Habib

Author, Editor
Ammar Habib is a bestselling author from Lake Jackson, Texas. He is the author of 9 novels and a couple of dozen short stories. Ammar enjoys crafting stories that are not only entertaining, but will also stay with the reader for a long time. Some of his novels include "The Heart of... Read More →
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C.D. Lewis

C.D. Lewis is an attorney and entrepreneur whose writing includes acedemic reasearch (e.g., peer-reviewed publication Pharmacoeconomics) and financial analysis (e.g. on Seeking Alpha, which gave Editor's Choice awards to numerous articles). Lewis' reviews of fiction have appeared... Read More →
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Ruth Nasrullah

Volunteer, Armand Bayou Nature Center
Ruth Nasrullah is an independent journalist who has written about a range of topics including religion, civil rights, nature and the environment. She presented on writing about religion at the Writers Colony at Dairy Hollow, where she has done two residencies, and will present at... Read More →

Sunday May 1, 2022 11:00am - 12:00pm CDT
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