How can you capitalise on rich life experiences by incorporating them into your work? Join our next Heard Word and find out. Our Featured Writer is a man for all seasons, many countries, and a few professions. Donald Nordberg keeps his writing fresh by always looking toward the future while keeping his feet planted firmly in the here and now. Please join us on Thursday the 20th of February, 2025 from 5-7PM on Zoom.
To get Don’s feedback on your work sign up to be one of our presenting writers. There are both 20-minute (1500 words) and 5-minute (700 word “lighting round”) slots available. You can sign up here: https://docs.google.com/…/1TfI5…/edit…
Even if you aren’t presenting, please join us to offer feedback. Here is the link. https://bournemouth-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/85437743352…
A bit more about our Featured Writer:
On a good day, Don Nordberg feels he’s like Lear in Act 4, Scene 7, a self-proclaimed “foolish, fond old man”. A year ago, he retired, aged 74, a month after receiving a PhD in creative writing from the University of Exeter. It was his second doctorate, alongside two Masters degrees and a BA.
A native of Chicago, Don was a long-serving news reporter, foreign correspondent and editorial executive, mainly at Reuters, writing on assignment from a few dozen countries and living in four. He worked on digital video on the internet a decade before there was a YouTube and tried, unsuccessfully, to entice funders to build an online publishing platform for writers two decades before there was a Substack. Since then, he’s been a professor of journalism at City, University of London, and associate professor in BU’s Business School. He has published two books on corporate governance and dozens of articles in academic journals, three of those on literary theory and analysis. He also convenes the Dorset local group for the Society of Authors and helps organise the annual Sturminster Newton Literary Festival.
He’s trying now to get two novels published while writing two Subtacks, one about what happens when philosophy meets fiction, the other called “How to govern [not like that]”. A “foolish, fond old man” indeed.
