ROY PETER CLARK
Vice President and senior Scholar
“Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer” (author); “Journalism: Democratic Craft” (co-author); “The Changing South of Gene Patterson” (co-editor); “America’s Best Newspaper Writing: A Collection of ASNE Prizewinners” (co-editor); “Coaching Writers: Editors and Reporters Working Together” (co-author); author of “Writing Tools”
FACULTY SINCE:
January 1979
RECENT WORK:
Writing Tools, News Standards & Ethics
| PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY |
Dr. Roy Peter Clark has taught writing at The Poynter Institute for three decades, a body of work summarized in his latest book “Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer.” Clark has worked full-time at Poynter since 1979 as director of the writing center, dean of the faculty, senior scholar, and vice-president.
In 1977 Clark was hired by the St. Petersburg Times to become one of America’s first writing coaches and worked with the American Society of Newspaper Editors to improve newspaper writing nationwide. Because of his work with ASNE, Clark was elected as a distinguished service member, a rare honor for a journalist who has never edited a newspaper.
Clark has worked with writers and taught writing in more than 40 states and on five continents. His influence has been felt far and wide both on young writers and grizzled professionals. He is the founding director of the National Writers Workshops, eight regional conferences, including one at Harvard, that attract more than 5,000 writers annually.
From 1977-78 Clark wrote news, features, and reviews for the St. Petersburg Times. In 1996 he began writing serial narratives for newspapers, including “Three Little Words,” “Sadie’s Ring,” “Her Picture in My Wallet,” and “Ain’t Done Yet,” a serial novel syndicated by The New York Times. He is the author of “The Line Between Fact and Fiction,” published in the journal Creative Nonfiction.
Since 2000, Clark has written more than 500 articles and essays for The Poynter Institute website, www.poynter.org. In 2006, he wrote his first essays for National Public Radio and appeared twice as a guest on the “Oprah Winfrey Show.” |
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| Roy has taught writing at every level--to school children and Pulitzer Prize-winning authors--for more than 30 years, and has spoken about the writer's craft on The Oprah Winfrey Show, NPR and Today; at conferences from Singapore to Brazil; and at news organizations from The New York Times to the Sowetan in South Africa. He is the author of "Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer," the book and the blog. |
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