| National Writers Union, Tucson Chapter

National Writers Union,
Tucson Chapter

The National Writers Union national office in New York can provide you with contract assistance and help with grievances. Our Tucson, Arizona, chapter is here to answer questions; update you on issues like copyright protection and how new technology affects writers; and help you make contact with other members at events like our Friday breakfasts and our Monday readings.

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The National Writers Union will be hosting a reading and open mic on Monday, February 18, starting at 6:00 p.m. in Tucson. This month, Norah Booth will be the featured reader. Norah is a freelance journalist who has published in Poets & Writers, Mother Jones, TexasMonthly, Thinking Classroom: An International Journal, Europa Times, Arizona Daily Star, Tucson Weekly, as well as many vanished publications, such as Rocky Mountain Magazine. She earned an MA in journalism from the University of Arizona but credits author Tom Miller for teaching her how to be a freelance journalist. She taught writing for about 15 years at community colleges and in secondary education, during which time she published studies in academic journals about teaching writing to second-language learners and children in poverty. She currently is a writer/editor with occupiedtucsoncitizen.org, a non-profit, on-line publication. She is at work on a biography of Sister Clare Dunn, CSJ, a Democrat from Tucson, the first Catholic nun, and one of the last, to serve in public office. Tonight she will be discussing her impressions of last year’s trials of Border Agent Lonnie Ray Swartz for the cross-border shooting death of teenager Jose Antonio Rodriguez, which she covered for the Occupied Tucson Citizen.

The open mic is for spoken word only, but is open to all forms of spoken word (fiction, essays, poetry, articles, polemics, etc.). So bring something to read!

The event will be held at the AFSCME/SEIU Union Hall at 877 S. Alvernon Way in Tucson. The building is on the east side of the street (opposite the Randolph Park golf range) and is a couple of blocks north of 22nd Street. There is ample parking. The room is on the first floor and we will have signs up to point the way.