Some Stats

Travels

Since September 2012, I have been mostly based in southern France, where I am perfecting my French while continuing to freelance.
In 2007 I spent over four months traveling 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 and Greece in 2018.
I have also reported from, traveled in, and learned much in Italy, Slovakia, the Balkans, Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala, Tunisia, Togo, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Afghanistan, and various European countries.

Publishing

In late 2019, Culture Keeper became Anthrow Circus, where I’m developing all content and leading the team that is “endlessly curious, contemplating culture and society from the inside out through a multitude of perspectives.” Come on over and explore with us!
In January 2016, I’ve began serving as editor-in-chief of Culture Keeper.
Since 2003 hundreds of my articles and essays have been published in many dozens of online and print publications.
From August 2010 until December 2013, I 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, editing, communications and media projects.
Photos I’ve taken have been published with many of my articles.

Learning and sharing

I’m a member of the U.S.-based Society of Professional Journalists and the France-based Club de la Presse de Bordeaux and Anglo-American Press Association of Paris.
In July 2019, I was invited to participate in the first ever Global Conference for Media Freedom hosted in London by the UK and Canadian governments.
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, IMAGE Journal’s Glen Workshop East, and the Society of Professional Journalists‘ Excellence in Journalism conference. My continuing education has also included Creative Nonfiction journal’s online Travel Writing course as well as acting courses in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and Aix-en-Provence, France, and playing the role of Aunt Polly in Theatre Bristol‘s summer 2017 production of Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer.
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.
I was part of a Nashville-based creative writing group, the Nashville Writing Collective.

Miscellaneous

I received a 2010, 2011, and 2013 Professional Development Support grant from the Tennessee Arts Commission.
To see a more complete list of experience visit my LinkedIn profile. Thanks!
And don’t forget the tweeting and instagramming: twitter.com/KamiTheWriter and instagram.com/kamithewriter. It’s sure to change your life.

Publications I’ve written for include:

In addition to writing for specific publications, I’ve completed various writing, editing, and consulting projects for these clients:

Kami L. Rice: Freelance Writer, Journalist, Editor