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Arkansas SPJ’s annual awards banquet will be held this Sept. 21st, and will feature a special speaker: correspondent Debbie Elliott of National Public Radio.

Elliott has worked for NPR since 1995. She has covered national elections and Congress, and was the host of Weekend All Things Considered.  Now she’s back working in her native Alabama.

The banquet will be held at Whole Hog Café on Cantrell Rd. in Little Rock on Sept. 21st at 6:30 p.m. 

RSVP by e-mailing kelly@kuar.org.

All are welcome – tickets are $20, and there’ll be a cash bar. Winners in the Arkansas SPJ annual journalism contest will be eligible for a discounted tickets.

Winners of the contest are still being notified, but as a teaser, I’ll let you know the winner in the Outstanding New Journalist category is Chad Day of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.

Congratulations, and we hope to see you all there!

The Oxford American is bringing several noteworthy writers and editors to Arkansas as part of its Summit for Ambitious Writers, not the least of whom is David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker since 1998.

Local journalists have a unique chance to meet this Pulitzer Prize-winner after his appearance Friday at 2:00 p.m.
 
Remnick will be interviewed by the OA’s Marc Smirnoff at the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute on Petit Jean Mountain, and a reception will follow. SPJ members are invited to attend and meet Remnick.
 
All you need to do is RSVP at: http://summit.oxfordamerican.org/registration/
 
Also appearing this week are William Whitworth, formerly of The Atlantic Monthly, and Pico Iyer, the highly-regarded travel writer.

The Attorney General’s office is conducting “FOI Roadshows” around the state to educate citizens and public officials about the Freedom of Information Act.

The Little Rock session will be held on Tuesday, June 14th, at the Bowen School of Law, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

It’s free, but you gotta register! More info here.