- I recently won the Evert Clark/ Seth Payne Award for young science journalists from the National Association of Science Writers! To read more about the award and past recipients–who’ve included Malcolm Gladwell and Carl Zimmer–click here.
Here’s the blurb:
“The winner of the 2008 Evert Clark/Seth Payne Award, an annual prize for young science journalists, is Elizabeth Svoboda, a writer based in San Jose, Calif. Svoboda received the award and its $1000 prize for four stories: “The Fuel Cell” (Popular Science); “The Asteroid Hunters” (Discover); “Scents & Sensibility” (Psychology Today); and “The sun blotted out from the sky” (Salon).
The panel of judges cited Svoboda for her wide-ranging topics and her ability to adapt to the needs and styles of different publications. The judges praised her for humanizing science by making ‘really good use of people,’ and for the clarity of her writing. They also liked Svoboda’s ‘reasonably skeptical’ look at the claims of researchers.”
- As of January 2008, I’m a contributing writer at Fast Company magazine. I’ll continue serving as a contributing editor at Popular Science and freelancing for a variety of other publications.
- The site’s currently undergoing a major redesign–some areas are still in limbo, as you’ll notice. To send feedback, drop me a line at elizabeth at elizabethsvoboda dot com.
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