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Dana Shavin

Chattanooga
As seen in: Medium, MSN, Psychology Today, MarketWatch, TODAY, Parade Magazine, Travel + Leisure, Morningstar, Chattanooga Times Free Press, Verywell Mind and
Covers:  Creative nonfiction: Personal interest, animal welfare, writing craft, humor, profiles, travel essay, food.
Doesn't Cover: Politics, religion, crime.

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Dana Shavin’s Biography

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My essays have appeared in Oxford American, Psychology Today, The Sun, Bark, The Writer, Fourth Genre, Alaska Quarterly Review, Limehawk Literary Review, Parade.com, WritersDigest.com, and others. I have been a Lifestyle columnist for the Chattanooga Times Free Press since 2002, and was the editor of the Chattanooga Jewish Federation magazine, The Shofar. My memoir, The Body Tourist, was published in 2014. My work has been nominated for Best American Essays and a Pushcart.

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Dana Shavin’s Journalist Portfolio

To Love and to Envy

To Love and to Envy

Twenty years ago, I started traveling to art festivals around the country to sell my paintings. My boyfriend,…

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In Between Dogs

In Between Dogs

I'm in the Palatial Tampa Theater with my husband, eating fistfuls of hot popcorn and watching Oscar-nominate…

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In marriage, direction not always clear

In marriage, direction not always clear

Dana Shavin My husband and I play a game that isn't really a game, called "I'm Lost." The way it works is, I …

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How I stopped crying and started celebrating

How I stopped crying and started celebrating

It didn't matter that I was Jewish and that Christmas was about as important to me as the Chinese New Year is…

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Five myths and two truths about getting published - The Writer

Five myths and two truths about getting published - The Writer

My husband is an artist, and I am a freelance writer, and there's a lot of chatter in our house about our car…

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How Life Coaching Fixed What Therapy Left Broken

How Life Coaching Fixed What Therapy Left Broken

I'm sitting across a table from a woman with a sticky note stuck to her forehead on which is scrawled, in big…

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Articles

My Life: The birds of Chattanooga

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By Dana Shavin
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My Life: The birds of Chattanooga 23 minutes ago by Dana Shavin × Dana Shavin I took a six-week online graphic essay class last winter. A graphic essay is a story told through a combination of text, images and visual metaphor. It was a challenging class taught by Kelcey Ervick, author of the graphic novels "The Keeper" and "The Bitter Life of Božena Němcová." For the class, we were encouraged to think of a story from our lives that tugged at us.
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My Life: Late-night dread and other useless endeavors

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By Dana Shavin
| Chattanooga Times Free Press
This morning my husband told me he'd woken in the night with a terrible dread: with his death comes the end of his family name. I could relate, I said. With my death comes the end of thousands of pages of writing.
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Shavin: Saga of the chewy chocolate merengue

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By Dana Shavin
| Chattanooga Times Free Press
If you took my personal essay writing workshop a few Saturday mornings ago at the Dalton Creative Arts Guild, then you know one perk of having me as an instructor is that I bring chewy chocolate merengue cookies. Upcoming Events
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Interview

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Have you ever used a typewriter?

Haha, yes, all through college and grad school. Thank God that's over.

What tools and software do you use to do your job?

MS Word, Indesign, Photoshop, Dropbox, and occasionally my own brain.

Who do you wish followed you?

The New York Times, closely, and with bated breath.

Awards

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National Society of Newspaper Journalists

2019 - Humor, print pubs over 50,000

Second place, column writing contest.

Green Eyeshade

2020 - Humor columnist, Southeast region

Since 1950, The Green Eyeshades have recognized the very best journalism in the southeastern United States – which now includes print, television, radio, and online. Open to journalists in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and West Virginia.

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Green Eyeshade

2021 - Travel Writing, print non-dailies

Since 1950, The Green Eyeshades have recognized the very best journalism in the southeastern United States – which now includes print, television, radio, and online. Open to journalists in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and West Virginia.

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