Write Your Heart Out, Washington, 2011, with Poynter’s Roy Peter Clark. Nick Kirkpatrick, The Poynter Institute

Write Your Heart Out, Washington, 2011, with Poynter’s Roy Peter Clark. Nick Kirkpatrick, The Poynter Institute

Write Your Heart Out, Washington, 2011. Nick Kirkpatrick, The Poynter Institute

Write Your Heart Out, Washington, 2011, with NPR’s Keith Woods and Georgetown University & The Washington Post’s Lonnae O’Neal Parker. Nick Kirkpatrick, The Poynter Institute

Write Your Heart Out, Washington, 2011. Nick Kirkpatrick, The Poynter Institute

Write Your Heart Out, Washington, 2011. Nick Kirkpatrick, The Poynter Institute

Write Your Heart Out, Washington, 2011. Nick Kirkpatrick, The Poynter Institute

Write Your Heart Out, Washington, 2011. Nick Kirkpatrick, The Poynter Institute

Write Your Heart Out, Washington, 2011, with The Washington Post’s Gene Weingarten. Nick Kirkpatrick, The Poynter Institute

Write Your Heart Out, Washington, 2011. Nick Kirkpatrick, The Poynter Institute

Write Your Heart Out, Washington, 2011, with The Washington Post’s Gene Weingarten. Nick Kirkpatrick, The Poynter Institute

Write Your Heart Out, Washington, 2011, with The Washington Post’s Anne Hull. Nick Kirkpatrick, The Poynter Institute

Write Your Heart Out, Washington, 2011, with The Washington Post’s Anne Hull. Nick Kirkpatrick, The Poynter Institute

Write Your Heart Out, Washington, 2011, with Poynter’s Roy Peter Clark, The Washington Post’s Kathleen Parker and Eugene Robinson. Nick Kirkpatrick, The Poynter Institute

Write Your Heart Out, Washington, 2011, with The Washington Post’s Kathleen Parker and Eugene Robinson. Nick Kirkpatrick, The Poynter Institute

Write Your Heart Out, Washington, 2011. Nick Kirkpatrick, The Poynter Institute

Write Your Heart Out, Washington, 2011, with Poynter’s Roy Peter Clark. Nick Kirkpatrick, The Poynter Institute

Saturday, October 1, 2011, was a truly unique workshop experience in partnership with Georgetown University and The Washington Post. A Washington, DC audience learned from some of the country’s finest writers.

Roy Peter Clark, Poynter’s senior scholar and author of “Writing Tools: 50 Strategies for Every Writer,” led a session on “More Fluent, Effective Writing.”

Keith Woods, vice president, diversity, National Public Radio, and co-author of “The Authentic Voice: The Best Reporting on Race and Ethnicity,” and Lonnae O’Neal Parker, Georgetown MPS Journalism faculty and reporter, The Washington Post, led a session on “The Art of Personal Essays.”

Anne Hull, Pulitzer Prize-winning National reporter for “The Other Walter Reed,” The Washington Post, led a session on “Writing With Detail.”

Eugene Robinson, Pulitzer Prize-winning opinion writer, The Washington Post, and author of “Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America,” and Kathleen Parker, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, The Washington Post, and author of “Save the Male: Why Men Matter, Why Women Should Care,” led a session on “The Science of Opinion Writing.”

Special guest Gene Weingarten, Pulitzer Prize-winning humor columnist, The Washington Post, was interviewed by Roy Peter Clark about “How to Write With Humor.”

Questions? Call 727-821-9494