Workshops

• PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE TOOLKIT SERIES: A zoom lunchtime series offering scholars the opportunity to to learn about a valuable under-discussed element of how academic research and knowledge production can meet a public audience.

  Upcoming: Storytelling for Scholars w/ Chris Colin and Anthony Ocampo 
  Friday April 17, 12-1:30 pm, Register for Zoom Link . How can academics use journalistic and literary tools to translate their knowledge production into compelling content for a public audience? Research and data can be transformed by the essential elements of good storytelling, with vivid characters, immersive scenes, and stakes for the reader. Join this lunchtime Zoom session with Stanford Public Humanities’ Laura Goode in conversation with authors Anthony Ocampo (Stanford alum and author of two academic crossover books, one with SUP) and Chris Colin (journalist, author and Senior Editor in Stanford’s Office of Development) to close-read elements of storytelling and style for scholars.

• TRADE BOOK WORKSHOP IN SPRING 2026: The goal of this workshop is to help you develop your book idea for a general/non-academic audience, understand the publishing process, and plan the elements of a trade book proposal. Faculty from all disciplines are welcome to apply.  The workshop leaders will be an editor and agent with an impressive roster of authors and experience working with academics: Adam Eaglin, Vice and President and Literary Agent at the Cheney Agency and William Heyward, an Executive Editor at Penguin Press.  The workshop will take place virtually over Zoom over the course of a month beginning in mid-April. Applications now closed.
• MAGAZINE WRITING WORKSHOP IN SUMMER 2026: A multi-week magazine writing intensive with Charles Petersen, the Harold Hohbach historian at Stanford’s Silicon Valley Archives. Petersen is a former member of the editorial staff at the New York Review of Books and a longtime senior editor at n+1 who has written for Art in America, Bookforum, and The Nation as well as n+1, The New York Review, and many other publications. To learn more and apply, please visit this link. 

If you are not already on our mailing list and want to join to learn more about these opportunities, please email Natalie Jabbar at njabbar [at] stanford.edu (njabbar[at]stanford[dot]edu) 

Summer 2025--A summer-long magazine writing intensive with Charles Petersen, the Harold Hohbach historian at Stanford’s Silicon Valley Archives. Petersen is a former member of the editorial staff at the New York Review of Books and a longtime senior editor at n+1 who has written for Art in America, Bookforum, and The Nation as well as n+1, The New York Review, and many other publications.

Winter 2024--A month-long workshop on writing and publishing op-eds with Lois Kazakoff, former deputy editorial page director of the San Francisco Chronicle, alongside Natalie Jabbar, Associate Director of Stanford Public Humanities. 

Spring 2023--An intensive three-day magazine-writing workshop with New Yorker Ideas Editor, Joshua Rothman. 

Fall 2022--A month-long working on writing a book for a general audience with literary agent Molly Atlas and editor Hilary Redmon. 

Fall 2021--A month-long workshop  on writing a book for a general audience with literary agent Alia Hana Habib and editor Vanessa Mobley. 

Spring 2021--A month-long workshop on writing a book for a general audience with literary agent Tina Bennett and book editor Alexander Star (FSG). The goal: to help faculty develop a book idea for a general/non-academic audience and plan the elements of a trade book proposal.

Winter 2021--Following on the success of the first public humanities workshop, a second virtual workshop on writing and publishing op-eds with Lois Kazakoff, former deputy editorial page director of the San Francisco Chronicle. 

Spring 2020--The first public humanities workshop: a month-long workshop held over zoom on writing and publishing op-eds with Lois Kazakoff, former deputy editorial page director of the San Francisco Chronicle.