Scanlan, Christopher

Christopher Scanlan is a senior faculty member at the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Fla., and director of the National Writers Workshops. For two decades he was an award-winning feature writer for the St. Petersburg Times, a national correspondent for Knight-Ridder Newspapers, and a reporter for the Providence Journal. Christopher produces Chip on Your Shoulder, a writing advice column on Poynter's Web site (http: //www.poynter.org/shoulder). His articles, fiction writing, and essays have appeared in numerous media outlets.

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