I quit my job and moved across the country for this speech. It started out with a question I saw written on a white board during my final interview at …
Commencment-speech-a-palooza is taking place on May 15. Put on by iHeartRadio, Commencement Speeches 2020 will include virtual talks by a couple dozen celebrities, from Hillary Clinton to Pitbull. “High school and college …
We’ve lost hold of the anchoring and orienting forms by which we connect to politics. Guess who to the rescue, for Democrats at least. The day after Bernie Sanders endorsed …
Review of Leading Lines by Lucinda Holdforth (HarperCollins, 2020) If you’re going to read one book about speechwriting this year, then pick up a copy of Australian speechwriter Lucinda Holdforth’s just-published Leading Lines. Her book …
The American Embassy in Poland needs a speechwriter: “Serves as the principal English-language writer for the Ambassador and other senior Embassy officials. Collaborates with the Ambassador to develop original content, appropriately …
Gotham Ghostwriters has introduced the Help Another Writer Out Campaign (#HAWO). “In this moment of economic crisis, we are seeing the freelance writing community respond with its typical reciprocity and …
It was a relatively good week for speeches and speechwriters! On Sunday, Queen Elizabeth gave a widely appreciated televised speech calling on British citizens to show “the quiet, good-humored resolve” they’ve been …
Review of: FDR on Democracy: The Greatest Speeches and Writings of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, by Harvey J. Kaye (available via Amazon in both print and ebook) In these days of …
How to write the “catastrophe speech.” By writer Kevin Toolis’ definition, coronavirus is not a “catastrophe”—a singular disastrous event. But it will almost certainly contain such events—for the world, for your …
Resources for you, from the Professional Speechwriters Association: • The Video CEO: Make the Boss Comfortable, Compelling and Compassionate on Screen takes place Friday, at 1:00 Eastern. Register right now to join Fred Garcia and …
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