Amy Souza is a freelance writer and editor and the founder of SPARK, a quarterly creativity event in which artists, writers, and musicians use each other’s work to prompt new work of their own.
Amy’s articles have been published on the Web and in daily newspapers, alternative weeklies, and alumni, trade, and national magazines. She also edits and produces e-newsletters and has produced corporate videos, online and CD-based instructional materials, and segments for national and regional public television shows. Amy has a master’s degree in radio and television from San Francisco State University, and in 2009 she received an honorable mention for magazine feature writing in the Writer’s Digest 78th Annual Writing Competition. She is currently a student in the Comics Certificate Program at the Independent Publishing Resource Center.
SAMPLE WRITING
Veterinary Hospice:
Ways to nurture our pets at the end of life
(From Best Friends Magazine; included in McGraw-Hill’s Annual Edition Series, Dying, Death, and Bereavement 11/12)
Novel Idea:
Why 14,000 people tried to crank out 50,000 words in 30 days
(From Seven Days, Vermont)
Talk About the Passion
An interview with filmmaker Andrew Mudge
(From New England Film)
Marching Orders:
What happens to military pets when their people are deployed?
(From Best Friends Magazine)
Honorable Mention, Writer’s Digest 78th Annual Writing Competition
Planning for Dogs: Exercise vs. Restraint
(Excerpt from the Planning Commissioners Journal–Contact Amy for full PDF version)
Windows of Opportunity
Profile of stained glass artist, Lawrence Ribbecke
(From Business People Vermont)
Painting the Town
Feature article on Vermont Studio Center
(From Business People Vermont)
Have Pet, Need Apartment — Opens to large PDF of entire magazine issue
(From Best Friends Magazine)