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.

Words and Work: a New Weekly NWU Tucson Podcast

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In addition to our monthly reading and open mic, the Tucson chapter of the National Writers Union is now presenting a weekly broadcast program and podcast on union and writer’s issues titled “Words and Work.” Hosted by NWU member Ted Prezelski, it features interviews with authors and labor leaders.

It’s broadcast at 11:30 a.m. on Sundays on Downtown Radio. It’s at 99.1 on the FM dial but it’s LPFM which means that it reaches only a few miles outside of Downtown Tucson. It can also be heard streaming at downtownradio.org.

The podcast is posted the Monday after the broadcast. It can be found on Anchor, Breaker, Google Podcasts, Pocket Casts, RadioPublic and Spotify. Please see the links below.

Guests so far have been David Hill (writer and 1^st Vice-President of the NWU), A. J. Flick (free-lance journalist, former crime reporter for the daily Tucson Citizen), Fred Yamashita (Executive Director, Arizona AFL-CIO), Lydia Otero (historian and author), and the organizers of the United Campus Workers of Arizona (CWA).

Links to the podcasts:

Anchor: https://anchor.fm/ted-prezelski
Breaker: https://www.breaker.audio/words-and-work
Google Podcasts: https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy81MTdiMjY5NC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw==
Pocket Casts: https://pca.st/3435puy4
RadioPublic: https://radiopublic.com/words-and-work-WPDb0k
Spotify: Words and Work

Check Out the National Writers Union Website

You’ll find it at www.nwu.org. You can use it to:

Build your talent profile on our new searchable database
Submit news items about your writing—or any relevant event—for publication by tagging your NWU chapter.
Apply for a press pass
Renew your membership
Request contract advice

The National Writers Union will be hosting a reading and open mic via Zoom on Monday, January 17, starting at 6:00 p.m. This month our featured reader will be David Yetman, who will be reading from his recently published book, Natural Landmarks of Arizona (U of A Press). David is an American academic expert on Sonora, Mexico and an Emmy award-winning media presenter on the world's deserts. He is a research social scientist at the University of Arizona.

Regarding the book, David states: “Since my arrival in Arizona in 1954 I have been a mountain junkie--especially captivated by prominences--mountains that stand out among others--the landmark sort. During the many intervening decades, I came to wonder, why isn't everything flat? After all, gravity pulls down every raised surface and assisted by rain, snow, freezing, wind, and enough time, gravity makes all the rough places plain (as the Deutero-Isaiah put it). I have long appreciated the power of landmarks over the human psyche. The theory of plate tectonics was a philosophical rescue for me as well as providing a new geological paradigm. By the 2000s, I could finally look at Arizona's natural monuments as products of terrestrial forces I could understand, at least conceptually--I began to understand why they are there--how they were raised from the plains. That new understanding has made them all the more significant for me. And thus Natural Landmarks of Arizona came into being.”

If you would like the Zoom link, please email us at nwutucson@yahoo.com