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Greg Bowers

A sports reporter, editor, juggler and ukulele player, Greg Bowers taught journalism at the University of Missouri. He now lives near York, Pennsylvania

A master of sports journalism tackles a new writing challenge: narrative on Facebook

A master of sports journalism tackles a new writing challenge: narrative on Facebook

Dave Kindred never intended to take on this project. Truth is, he didn’t even think of the Facebook posts he’s been writing as a project.But last spring, the walls began…
November 18, 2020
Building writing muscles — a postcard a day

Building writing muscles — a postcard a day

With writing, as with most things, you get better with practice. Just ask an athlete. Or a sports reporter.Derrick Goold, baseball writer for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, guesses that he…
April 28, 2020
How knowing the full story process informs a writer's work

How knowing the full story process informs a writer’s work

The anecdote is packed. Daniel Riley was writing a profile for GQ of Brooks Koepka, one of the world’s elite golfers, and he knew immediately that this would be a…
April 8, 2020
Raw first stories from the Appalachian Trail

Raw first stories from the Appalachian Trail

When I first discovered that Earl Shaffer — the first man acknowledged to have hiked the entire 2,200-mile Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine — lived nearby, I went through…
February 28, 2019
For the love of analog in a digital world

For the love of analog in a digital world

Every August when I was young, my mother would take me to the store to buy some back-to-school notebooks. Maybe some pencils. Sometimes even a plastic pencil sharpener.This was a…
February 6, 2019
A brother's death, written by a sister, channeling their mother's voice

A brother’s death, written by a sister, channeling their mother’s voice

Sometimes I push writing students to look for new ways to tell stories.Should you start with the “small” things? Is there a story in the way a character dresses? How…
November 8, 2018
Shadows cast on the love of a game

Shadows cast on the love of a game

The story started in one direction and ended up going in a jarringly different one. But when the time came to write a feature on the Auburn Tigers softball team,…
July 3, 2018