#NSWASCIWIRE
Recent work by our members#nswasciwire highlights the published writing of NSWA members each month. Would you like to see your writing featured? Please suggest an item online or send a link or PDF file to Susan Keown at sciencewire@nwscience.org. The NSWA Board of Directors determines what material to present. We look forward to highlighting your work.
Hu, Nijhuis, Rosen, Yan: First Craft
The Craft of Science Writing is the first book from The Open Notebook (@Open_Notebook), an online community of science journalists and writers who freely share their experience and resources. NSWA is proud to have several members who contributed to the book. Wudan...
Brenner: Nature and the City
Look around, Seattleites! Kelly Brenner has a new book, Nature Obscura: A City's Hidden Natural World, to help us savor the wildlife around us that we ignore as we solowheel around our city. Kelly’s guide to urban flora and fauna from Mountaineers Books is out on...
Rosen: Ice Oasis
A polynya, writes freelance journalist Julia Rosen, is an open expanse of water—an oasis—amid sea ice. Julia (@1juliarosen) won the 2019 Best of the Northwest Science Writing Award for Journalism for her story, "Oasis of Open Water" in @hakaimagazine. Julie traveled...
Keown: Mystery Solved, Legacy Honored
Susan Keown takes us through the twists and turns of a clinical mystery—why a cancer that responded to T-cell immunotherapy became resistant. Susan (@sejkeown) won the 2019 Best of the Northwest Science Institutional Writing Award for her story, “Revealing a new way...
Cauvel: Keeping Our Carbon Blue
Kimberly Cauvel shows off our local blue carbon—meaning ocean and coastal carbon-sequestering systems—with a story about eelgrass meadows in the Skagit wetlands. “Seeing Blue,” Kimberly’s story in the Skagit Valley Herald, was the Honorable Mention for our 2019 Best...