Upcoming Events
Workshop #3: Building Narrative Editing Skills
Virtual
This session provides an introduction to VOW’s oral history editing style that combines journalistic integrity and a literary approach to honor narrators’ voices and highlight complex issues through personal story. We’ll share concrete tips and skills and provide an opportunity to practice on a sample transcript from an oral history project.
Ask An Oral Historian: Narrator Compensation
Virtual
We’re excited to launch Ask An Oral Historian—open consultation hours with Fanny García, VOW’s Editorial Program Manager and Oral Historian. Whether you’re wrestling with a current project or just curious about the craft, these monthly 60-minute working sessions are your space to grow and ask questions in an intimate, small-group setting.
To kick things off, we’re tackling a hot topic: narrator compensation! It’s complicated, it’s controversial, and it’s full of potential. Together, we’ll dig into the real challenges and exciting opportunities this practice brings to our field—and more importantly, how it can transform relationships with the people whose stories we’re privileged to share.
