Craft Seminar: Science for Storytellers with Sonia Shah
Craft Seminar: Science for Storytellers with Sonia Shah
1 Session: Thursday, November 14
7:00 pm-8:30 pm ET
Sonia Shah
This workshop is led by Sonia Shah, an investigative science journalist, 2024 Guggenheim fellow, and author of critically acclaimed and prize-winning books on science, human-animal relations, and international politics. A former judge for the National Book Awards, Sonia is currently at work on her seventh book, Special: The Rise and Fall of a Beastly Idea, winner of a Whiting creative non-fiction grant and forthcoming from Bloomsbury in 2025. Her 2020 book, The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move, a finalist for the 2021 PEN/E.O Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, was selected as a best nonfiction book of 2020 by Publishers Weekly, a best science book of 2020 by Amazon, and a best science and technology book of 2020 by Library Journal; her 2016 book, Pandemic: Tracking Contagions from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond was selected as a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice and a finalist for the 2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in science/technology, the New York Public Library’s Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism, and the National Association of Science Writers’ Science in Society Award. Her articles appear in the New York Times magazine, The New Yorker and elsewhere.
Are you fascinated by scientific research and want to include scientific findings in your fiction or non-fiction storytelling but don’t know where to start? This workshop is for you.
Tap into the insights of a wide range of scientific and technical fields to enrich your writing on personal experience, nature, politics, climate, race, history and more. No scientific background required!
Workshop Highlights - You’ll learn how to:
Find the latest scientific research on your topic
Evaluate the reliability of scientific papers
Decode and translate scientific jargon
Pinpoint the right experts to talk to
Interview scientific experts with confidence
Write about technical subjects outside your area of expertise—and get it right
Find the drama and lyricism within scientific discoveries to deepen and enliven your writing
Scholarships available. For information, please contact Kate Mabus, kate@theshipmanagency.com.
Sonia Shah is an investigative journalist and author of critically acclaimed and prize-winning books on science, human-animal relations, and international politics. Her next book is Special: The Rise and Fall of a Beastly Idea, awarded a 2023 Whiting Foundation Creative Nonfiction Grant. Her most recent book, The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move (Bloomsbury, 2020), was a finalist for the 2021 PEN/E.O Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, and was selected as a best nonfiction book of 2020 by Publishers Weekly, a best science book of 2020 by Amazon, and a best science and technology book of 2020 by Library Journal. Her New York Times magazine article, “How far does wildlife roam,” was included in the collection, Best American Nature and Science Writing 2022.
