Alabama Scholastic Press Association Holds High School Publication Workshops

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — The Alabama Scholastic Press Association will present publication workshops to high school students and advisers on four Alabama college campuses this month.

The ASPA traveling team will offer workshops on the following dates and at the following locations:

• Sept. 15, Huntsville, University of Alabama at Huntsville
• Sept. 16, Auburn, Auburn University
• Sept. 17, Mobile, University of South Alabama
• Sept. 18, Tuscaloosa, University of Alabama

The workshop fee is $15 per student or adviser. ASPA will waive the registration fee for advisers who bring students. Advisers attending the conference for the first time will have their fee waived as well.

Registration begins at 8 a.m. at each site. The opening ceremony will begin at 8:45 a.m., and sessions will last from 9 a.m. until noon. The workshop will end at 12:15 p.m.

Yearbook, newspaper, literary magazine, broadcast and photography classes will be offered. Yearbook, newspaper and literary magazine classes will be available on beginning and advanced levels.

Registration forms and more information are available online at www.aspa.ua.edu.

The featured speakers will include:

• Jo Anne Graham of Ardmore, Okla. She advised the Gold and Silver Crown-winning yearbook at Ardmore Middle School. Graham holds the Journalism Education Association’s life achievement award and is a former Oklahoma journalism teacher of the year. She currently trains teachers in classroom technology and does videoconferencing for the Oklahoma Department of Education.
• T. J. Beitelman teaches creative writing at the Alabama School of Fine Arts in Birmingham. He is a former editor of two of Alabama’s leading magazines, the Black Warrior Review and Alabama Heritage. Beitelman’s poems, stories and articles have appeared in numerous publications, including the Colorado Review, the New Orleans Review and Quarterly West.
• Alice Klement, the Mildred Hansen professor at the University of Northern Colorado, leads a hyphenated life: editor-writer, journalist-lawyer, educator-newsroom coach. She has reported for newspapers in Chicago, Miami and Washington, D.C., and edited for The Associated Press in New York City. She also helped edit “Telling Stories/Taking Risks: Journalism Writing at The Century’s Edge” and “Magazine Fundamentals,” which won a 2003 Judge’s Award from the Association for Educational Publishers.

For more information, contact the ASPA office at 205/348-9298, aspa@sa.ua.edu or P.O. Box 2389, Tuscaloosa, Ala. 35403.