Travels
- August-December 2007 I traveled in Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, Sudan, DRC, Zimbabwe, and South Africa completing writing projects for non-profit organizations and magazines.
- I spent July 2008 in Haiti doing another round of writing projects for non-profit organizations.
- I worked from London for three months in Fall 2008.
- I spent a month writing from and exploring India in 2011.
- I have also traveled in Italy, Slovakia, Brazil, Colombia and Guatemala.
Publishing
- Since 2003 over 200 of my articles and essays have been published in more than 45 online and print publications.
- Since 2011, I have served as Editor of the CCCU’s semiannual Advance magazine: selecting the issue’s theme and articles to accompany it, recruiting freelance writers and other contributors, making story assignments, editing all articles, working with the copyeditor and designer, and signing off on the magazine before it went to the printer.
- Beyond traditional articles, I’ve completed a wide variety of other writing, communications and media projects.
- Photos I’ve taken have been published with a growing number of my articles.
Learning and sharing
- I’m part of a Nashville-based creative writing group, the Nashville Writing Collective.
- I’m a member of the Society of Professional Journalists.
- I have visited college classrooms to speak about freelance writing and participated in career days at elementary and secondary schools in the US and in London.
- I led a freelance writing session and a non-fiction writing workshop at the 2006 Appalachian Writer’s Conference.
- Over the years I’ve attended the following conferences and courses for professional/personal development and networking: 412 Creative Nonfiction Literary Festival, Festival of Faith and Writing, AWP Annual Conference, The Vine, Q Conference, mediabistro‘s Pitch Letter Essentials course, The Writer’s Center’s Writing the Future conference, and IMAGE Journal’s Glen Workshop East. Most recently, in September 2011 I participated in the Society of Professional Journalists‘ Excellence in Journalism conference, held jointly with the Radio Television Digital News Association.
Miscellaneous
- I received a 2010 and a 2011 Professional Development Support grant from the Tennessee Arts Commission.
- In roughly 50 hours of work time spread over six months for a new non-profit organization, I secured four articles about the organization in constituent-appropriate magazines and secured a speaking opportunity for the organization’s president/founder at a large conference.
- To see a more complete list of experience visit my MediaBistro site or my LinkedIn profile. Thanks!
- And don’t forget the tweeting: www.twitter.com/KamiTheWriter It’s sure to change your life.
Publications I’ve written for include:
- Africa University Today
- Asbury News
- BestSemester Magazine
- Blair Quarter Note
- Call to Leadership
- Call to Prayer
- CCCU’s Advance
- CCM Magazine
- Christian Single
- The City Paper
- devozine
- InterVarsity’s Emerging Scholars Blog
- FranklinIs.com
- Fringe Magazine
- GIFT SHOP Magazine
- High Calling Blogs
- Interpreter Magazine
- Life & Style
- Light & Life
- Nashville Arts Magazine
- Nashville Scene
- Neue
- Method X
- Outreach
- Prism
- Reject Apathy
- Rejuvenate Magazine
- Relevant Magazine
- RelevantMagazine.com
- Seven Ball
- Southern Exposure Magazine
- The Tennessean
- The Tennessean’s FYI Magazine
- Townhall.com
- United Methodist News Service
- University of Kentucky’s Odyssey magazine
- Vanderbilt Magazine
- Washington Notes
In addition to writing for specific publications, I’ve completed various writing and consulting projects for these clients:
- ABC’s CMA Music Festival television special
- Adventures In Missions
- Africa Upper Room Ministries
- Appalachian Regional Commission
- Ashanti Akim Community Organisation
- author/producer Matt Bronleewe
- Birdsong Creative
- Compass Cinema
- Council for Christian Colleges and Universities
- Creative Spillage/artist Laura Amstutz
- Cydil Waggoner Photography
- Discipleship Resources
- Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention
- Forbes Travel Guide
- General Board of Discipleship of the United Methodist Church
- Global Oceanic
- InterVarsity Press
- James Chester Band/Wakeup Sleeper
- The Joseph Alliance
- LivingSocial.com
- MAF-Haiti
- MAF-UK
- musician/songwriter Beau Bristow
- musician/songwriter Kyle Matthews
- musician/songwriter Tara Leigh Cobble
- musician/songwriter Vanessa Batts
- Pecan
- band Royal Ruckus
- Riley Print Resources, Inc.
- Save the Children
- St. Lola in the Fields band
- Tennessee T-cakes
- Thomas Nelson Publishers
- UM Connectional Giving
- University of Kentucky College of Arts & Sciences
- Upper Room Ministries
- World Gospel Mission
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