1. Media Relations Specialist Publicity Club of Chicago National law firm seeks experienced Media Relations Specialist to work full-time to promote the firm brand and strategic initiatives through effective media relations. The candidate will be a relationship-builder who connects the firm with representatives of top-tier media outlets. Requirements: A bachelor's degree or the equivalent combination [...]
So We All Can Be Heard – Winter 2014 By Marianne Wolf-Astrauskas, IWPA Historian Helen Stevens Fisher During Chicago’s “Golden Age of Radio,” Helen Stevens Fisher was a radio personality. Her best known character “The Little Lady of the House” was a feature on The National Farm and Home Hour, which the U.S. Department [...]
1. Copywriter Cor-Tech LLC (Contract - 1+ Months, $25/hour) Write product copy for an undisclosed client's general and specialty catalogs while adhering to the company's copy structure. Maintain this copy in publishing database for use throughout the company, including online catalog. Requirements: • Bachelor’s Degree in Advertising, Journalism or Communications, with 3-5 years of catalog [...]
IWPA Member Marion Gold is an award-winning author and publicity consultant who offers her expertise to entrepreneurs, book authors, small businesses and non-profit associations. She creates "Personal Publicity" and other specialty press kits, quality editorials, position papers and more. Marion is also considered an expert in forging alliances between nonprofit organizations and corporate partners who [...]
Past IWPA President and longtime member Cecilia Green is a tireless champion of the Bartlett Center for the Arts. Owing in large degree to Cecilia's advocacy through Arts in Bartlett, an all-volunteer arts council, a new Arts Center opened in the downtown area this fall. The renovated space has six artist studios, children and adult [...]
1. Communications Managing Associate Hagerty Consulting, Inc. Hagerty Consulting, Inc., a comprehensive Homeland Security and Emergency Management firm that helps public and private sector clients prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters, seeks an exceptional professional to serve as its Communications Manager. This Communications Manager will be based in Hagerty Consulting's headquarters, Evanston, Illinois. The [...]
The Great Lakes Review is collecting sketches for our Narrative Map project. Sketches should be non fiction of 1000 words or less on a specific place, large or small, public or personal, past or present, within the Great Lakes region. Submissions for the Narrative Map are considered year-round through the GLR website. We can't pay [...]
Elizabeth Wheeler The IWPA would like to congratulate member and 2014 NFPW 1st Place Fiction Winner Elizabeth Wheeler on another huge honor! Libby has been chosen as a Chicago Writer's Association Book of the Year finalist in the Traditional Fiction Category. Her young adult novel Asher's Fault is a must-read! Congrats and good luck Libby! [...]
September 14, 2014 Chicago, IL – The Illinois Woman’s Press Association (IWPA), an affiliate of the National Federation of Press Women (NFPW), announced the availability of its anniversary Anthology for immediate purchase on Amazon.com. The book is available in paperback form. In 1914 the depth of talented authors of the Illinois Woman’s Press Association published an [...]
So We All Can Be Heard - Summer 2013 By Marianne Wolf-Astrauskas, IWPA Historian In the beginning it was known as the “Editorial Writing Contest for High School Girls.” Earliest mention of the contest appeared in the September, 1972 edition of the IWPA newsletter, PenPoints. Back in the day, young ladies were presented with a sterling [...]
