SAL2 Public Writing Series

The FAS Dean's Office is delighted to announce that the Scholars as Leaders; Scholars as Learners (SAL2) program will offer a series of workshops for FAS ladder faculty and Professors in the Practice on public-facing scholarship. These workshops will provide support to faculty who are interested in bringing their scholarship to an audience beyond academia.
"An Introduction to Writing for Magazines and Op-Eds"
An Introduction to Writing for Magazines and Op-Eds explores what editors are looking for and addresses common misconceptions that scholars may have when writing for magazines and op-eds.
- Date: Monday, April 14
- Time: 12:00 PM -1:15 PM
- Location: Dow Hall, Room 100
- Presenter: Meghan O’Rourke, Editor of The Yale Review and Professor in the Practice at Yale, is a writer, poet, and editor. O’Rourke was formerly an editor at The New Yorker, the culture editor of Slate, co-editor in chief of Double X, and the poetry editor of The Paris Review. She is the author of the New York Times Bestseller The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness (2022), which was nominated for a National Book Award; the bestselling memoir The Long Goodbye (2011); and three poetry collections, the most recent of which was named a top poetry book of 2017 by The New York Times. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times, and more. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Radcliffe Fellowship, a Whiting Nonfiction Award, the May Sarton Poetry Prize, the Union League Prize for Poetry from the Poetry Foundation, and two Pushcart Prizes.
- Lunch will be provided
- Open to FAS ladder faculty
- Register online by Thursday, April 10