BAPWG		Member Directory of the Bay Area Professional Writers Guild
FRED  W.  WRIGHT Jr.
This page last updated on: April 12, 2008	Contact Phone: 727-595-5004 Fax: Same as phone Mail: P.O. Box 86158, St. Petersburg, FL 33738-6158 E-Mail: Web Site: www.fredwright.net	In Brief Education: B.A.: Eckerd College (nee Florida Presbyterian College) 1964 (Member, Founding Freshman Class & First Graduating Class) St. Petersburg, Fla. M.A.: University of South Florida (1971) Tampa, Fla. M.A. Thesis: "Truman Capote's In Cold Blood: A Non-Fiction Novel or a Novel Based on Fact?" Background: Writer and Freelance Journalist, 1975 to present. More than 4,000 articles sold to local regional and national publications. Publications: Newspapers include: The St. Petersburg Times, Tampa Tribune, Miami Herald, Orlando Sentinel, Palm Beach Post. Magazines include: NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TRAVELER, AAA Southern Traveler and AAA MIdwest Traveler, AD AGE, VARIETY, ARRIVAL, FLORIDA MEDICAL BUSINESS, NEXT!, PORTFOLIO, SARASOTA, FISHING GAZETTE, MOVIE-GOER, TAMPA BAY MONTHLY, QUEEN CITY MAGAZINE, OMAHA!, WRITER'S DIGEST, THE NATIONAL ENQUIRER, WEEKLY WORLD NEWS, VALUE RETAIL NEWS, NATIONAL MALL MONITOR, BEST REPORT, OFF-PRICE NEWS, WEATHERWISE, AGENT & MANAGER FACILITIES, SPECIAL EVENTS BUSINESS NEWS, EMMY, FLORIDA TRAVEL & LIFE, TRAVEL NEWS, GEO (German Ed.). Online Publications: www.gayot.com, www.office.com, www.lasvegas.com, GoWorldTravel.com Formerly: Monthly columnist, St. Petersburg Times, 1979 to 1997. Prior: Staff Writer, Columnist, Film and Theater Critic for The St. Petersburg (Fla.) Evening Independent (Average Circulation 45,000), 1964 to 1975. Additional published credits and teachng credentials listed below. Specialties: Film, Travel, Business, Profiles, Medical/science writing, Script writing. Other Memberships: Society of American Travel Writers (SATW) Mensa American Contract Bridge League Poets & Writers Inc., New York City Florida Freelance Writers Association; Member, Board of Advisors And much more!

BOOKS: *Author of City Smart: Tampa/St. Petersburg, 1996, published by John Muir Publications Ltd., Sante Fe, N.M.
*Author of The Radiance Technique® on the Job -- Expanded Edition, 1992, published by Radiance Associates, St. Petersburg, Fla.
*Editor of The Florida Almanac: 1994-1995, 1994, published by Pelican Publishing Co., New Orleans, La.
*Contributor to Insight Guides: Florida, 1990, 1997, 1999, published by Apa Productions Ltd., Singapore.
*Florida Editor of Insight Guides: Florida, 1990, published by Apa Productions Ltd., Singapore.
*Revision Editor for The People Machine, 1986, history of General Telephone Co. of Florida.

FILMS: *"The Chill Show," under option to I Love Movies Inc. (1998)
*Just When You Thought It Was Safe...," General Telephone Co. of Florida (1988)
*Firehouse! A Treatment," Florida Films (1987)
*From Ragtime to Spacetime," Semit Films (1982)
*Untitled treatments, Semit Films (1979)
*Untitled treatments, Kismet Films (1970)
*Collaborator and consultant on scores of film projects in partnership Words, Images & Co., St. Petersburg, Fla., and Seattle, Wash.
*A dozen feature-length motion picture scripts in collaboration with Words, Images & Co., 1975 to present.

FICTION: More than a dozen short stories published. Credits available upon request. Awards include Second Place, Fourth Annual Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction, Arts & Humanities Council, Tulsa, Okla. 1982. Judge: Diane Johnson.

POETRY: More than 60 poems published. Credits available upon request. More than 22 awards and honorable mentions.

TEACHING:
Adjunct Instructor at Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, Fla. Adjunct
Instructor at St. Petersburg College, St. Petersburg, Fla.
The University of South Florida, Tampa and St. Petersburg, Fla. Guest Instructor for Elderhostel Program, Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, Fla. 1975 to present.
Instructor, Poynter Institute for Media Studies (nee Modern Media Institute), St. Petersburg, Fla., 1977 - 1979.
High School Newspaper Advisor, Poynter Institute for Media Studies, St. Petersburg, Fla., 1975 to 1998.
Seminars in The Radiance Technique®, a stress-reduction technique, 1984 to present. Seminars taught throughout U.S. and in
England, Germany, Austria.
Instructor in Non-Fiction, Writer's Digest School, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1988 to present.