BAPWG
 Member Directory of the Bay Area Professional Writers Guild
STEPHEN  MORRILL
 

This page last updated on:

July 20, 2008

 

Contact

Phone:
813-236-7509

Mail:
P.O. Box 8093, Tampa, FL 33604

E-Mail:

Web Sites:
StephenMorrilll.com

WritersCollege.com

VacationFunFlorida.com

In Brief

BACKGROUND: Currently editor of Savvy Executive Profiles magazine and web site, webmaster for this BAPWG web site. Operates WritersCollege.com, largest online writing school, and freelances too: Magazine writing and editing. Wire service news. Corporate materials. Special publications. Books. Editor for the American Society of Journalists & Authors (ASJA) web site.

PUBLICATIONS: Horizon, World Wide Shipper, The Robb Report, Vista, The New York Times Magazine, Business Age, Changing Homes, Florida Business, Southern Homes, and in a variety of city magazines and newspapers. And many more in the past 26 years.

BOOKS: City in the Sun (history of St. Petersburg, Florida); book on historic preservation for government of Hillsborough County, Florida; and Flying the Andes (history of Pan-American /Grace Airways). Contributor to books on defense, computers, freelance writing business, and web-based education. Updated & Revised Fun With the Family FLORIDA, 6th ed. with Adele Woodyard.

SPECIALTIES: Advertising / Public Relations / Press Releases / Brochures, Architecture / Construction / Urban Planning, Boating, Water Sports, Books, Business, Computers / Technical Or Programs, Corporate Communication / In-House Documentation, Desktop Publishing, Ecology / Environment / Conservation, Editing / Copyediting / Critiquing, Essays, Ethnic, Financial, General Features, Ghostwriting, Government, Guides, Guidebooks, Health / Fitness / Medical, Historic Preservation, History, Home And Lifestyle, Human Interest, Humor, In-House And Corporate Communication, Lifestyles, Maritime / Marine Transport, Military, News And Journalism, Outdoors, Photography / Photojournalism, Profiles, Real Estate, Regional Interest, Research, Science / Technology / Inventions, Senior Issues, Social Issues, Teaching Writing, Travel, Web Content / Web Site Creation

TEACHING: Taught writing since 1986. Manages WritersCollege.com, a web-based writing school.

OTHER MEMBERSHIPS: American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA). Founded Bay Area Professional Writers Guild (BAPWG) and co-founded Tampa Writers Alliance (TWA).

Stephen Morrill is a generalist writer who has been freelancing full-time since 1984. During that time he has written more than 1000 articles for national and local magazines and for newspapers. Nationally, his work has appeared in such magazines as Horizon, World Wide Shipper, The Robb Report, Vista, The New York Times Magazine, and Business Age. In Florida his work has appeared in Changing Homes, Florida Business, Southern Homes, and in a variety of city magazines and local newspapers.

For ten years he wrote a biweekly column about maritime trade for Florida Shipper magazine and he has written about maritime shipping for other trade publications. As a Reuters News Agency correspondent for the west coast of Florida, his writing has been used by newspapers, radio and television around the world.

In addition to general-interest articles, Steve has written extensively about wine, humor, international shipping and trade, business and finance, architecture and the outdoors, and military affairs. He was the founding editor of Know Tampa Bay, a 25,000-circulation quarterly relocation guide to the Tampa Bay area. Steve has been honored by the Florida Magazine Association for his short humor and by the Florida Association of the American Institute of Architects for his writing about architecture. Steve is a member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA).

Steve is webmaster to a variety of sites, most that he designed himself, and is adept at web site design and content. Check out:

In addition to his ongoing magazine assignments and the occasional brochure or other non-magazine work, Steve wrote St. Petersburg: City in the Sun, a history of St. Petersburg, Florida and a ghost written history of Pan American-Grace Airways, Flying the Andes. He's working on two more books: a mystery (almost finished) and a handbook of businesslike freelance writing practices. He most recently updated & revised Fun With the Family FLORIDA, 6th ed. with fellow BAPWG member Adele Woodyard.