Outdoor Writers Association of America

OWAA OUTDOOR VOICES

Use Your Outdoor Voices


  • Letters to the Editor

    Letters to the Editor

    Scholarship Helps Student with Career…


  • How we are working to help you

    How we are working to help you

    Greetings from OWAA headquarters! Things have been been pretty busy here so far this year.


  • OWAA announces search for new director

    OWAA announces search for new director

    By Mark Taylor — I make my mother-in-law a little jumpy. “There are no flies on you,” she likes to say as she watches me stay in pretty much constant motion.


  • A fond farewell

    A fond farewell

    By Robin Giner — From the time I was young, raised by my parents on a homestead in rural northern Wisconsin, my life has been influenced by the lessons and values of what is now called the voluntary simplicity movement.


  • It's about suicide, guns not so much

    It's about suicide, guns not so much

    By Paul Quinnett, PH.D. — Mass murderers never ask themselves, “And after I kill all these innocent people, how will I escape?”…


  • Diversity and OWAA

    Diversity and OWAA

    By Glenn Sapir — Creating diversity within OWAA is a classic chicken-and-egg situation.


  • Get out of your box

    Get out of your box

    By Peter Schroeder — We all have our special markets for our articles and photos…


  • After further review

    After further review

    By W.H. “Chip” Gross — As outdoor writers, seldom do we pen hard-hitting, investigative-type stories…


  • Conservation writing: The outdoor media's dirty little secret

    Conservation writing: The outdoor media's dirty little secret

    By Beau Beasley — “Beau, we’re simply not going to run this conservation piece you’ve sent us. Furthermore, if the editor ever offers to run anything like this from you again, I’ve told him he’ll be fired.”…


  • APPly yourself

    APPly yourself

    By Risa Wyatt — What the heck is an app, anyway? Should you be creating one? Can it make you money?…


  • Writing for 1A: For freelancers

    Writing for 1A: For freelancers

    By Mark Freeman — Freelance writers who have tapped their newspaper’s outdoors budget still have other larger and more prominent sections to mine…


  • Dealing with criticism

    Dealing with criticism

    By Joel Vance — As a veteran (victim? survivor?) of more than 50 years of communicating via the written word, I testify that there is no thing you can write that won’t tick someone off…


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