Outdoor Writers Association of America

OWAA OUTDOOR VOICES

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  • Advice from the other side: Media and media relations people share do’s and don’ts to work together

    Advice from the other side: Media and media relations people share do’s and don’ts to work together

    It’s sometimes a love-hate relationship between reporters and public relations specialists, but anyone in the business knows, they need each other to each do their job.


  • Beyond a basic byline: Creating a personal brand to earn more work

    Beyond a basic byline: Creating a personal brand to earn more work

    Writing headlines used to be an essential part of my job as a newspaper editor. My boss said he could always tell which headlines I wrote and which other editors created.


  • Lessons learned: Ducks Unlimited vs. Don Thomas

    Lessons learned: Ducks Unlimited vs. Don Thomas

    As a freelance writer and photographer, every time a magazine changes editors, I feel vulnerable, and I wonder if the new one will want my work.


  • Letters to the Editor

    Letters to the Editor

    Thank you for reviewing the paperback version of my newest book, Bears in the Backyard. While reading Bookshelf, it occurred to me that there seems to be no distinction made between books that were published by traditional publishers and those that were self published.


  • Gogal Publishing releases fourth edition of Stream Map USA app

    Gogal Publishing releases fourth edition of Stream Map USA app

    Gogal Publishing released the fourth edition of its GPS enabled Stream Map USA app for iPhone and iPad.


  • OWAA all-star members

    OWAA all-star members

    As I enter my third month as OWAA’s president (fourth by the time you read this), I continually marvel at the depth OWAA’s and breadth of experience you, the members of OWAA and its supporters, have and how generous you are to share your knowledge with the rest of us.


  • 2015 Norm Strung Youth Writing Awards

    2015 Norm Strung Youth Writing Awards

    Winning entries from the 2014 Norm Strung Youth Writing Awards – prizes awarded for both prose and poetry, in junior and senior categories.


  • Bookshelf

    Bookshelf

    Best Rail Trails Pacific Northwest; More Than 60 Rail Trails in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho, Second Edition


  • Welcome to OWAA

    Welcome to OWAA

    While growing up, Pete Anderson’s father took him and his brother to lakes and rivers across upstate New York.


  • Land and Water Conservation Fund Coalition: Saving America’s most important conservation program

    Land and Water Conservation Fund Coalition: Saving America’s most important conservation program

    Dysfunction in Washington has claimed another victim. On Sept. 30, Congress allowed America’s most important conservation program to expire, putting our national parks, forests, wildlife refuges and outdoor recreation areas at risk.


  • Endangered Species Act faces extinction

    Endangered Species Act faces extinction

    “Nothing is more priceless and more worthy of preservation than the rich array of animal life with which our country has been blessed,” Richard Nixon said on signing the Endangered Species Act in 1973.


  • Master mass marketing with basic email etiquette

    Master mass marketing with basic email etiquette

    It happens to all of us. We sit down to sift through email, deleting the junk mail, flagging the important pieces and reading our favorites first.


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