For more than a decade, ASU has partnered with the online magazine Slate on an innovative project called Future Tense that covers the intersection of tech/science/environment/health, policy, and society. Future Tense reaches more than 1 million readers each month and publishes work by scholars, policy experts, journalists, and more. Now, ASU and Slate are launching a new project called State of Mind that will bring the same nuanced approach to covering mental health.

On Tuesday, Feb. 1, Torie Bosch, the editor of Future Tense and State of Mind, will host a workshop on how to write for a popular audience. She'll discuss the process of pitching and editing, what makes a good idea for public-facing outlets, writing style, and much more. Whether you're interested in contributing to Slate or another outlet, this workshop will help demystify the process of public-facing writing.

Torie Bosch is the editor of Future Tense, a partnership of Slate, Arizona State University, and New America that explores the intersection of technology, science, policy, and society, and State of Mind, an ASU-Slate partnership covering mental health. She serves as an editor-in-residence and lecturer at Cronkite, teaching opinion journalism. She also works with The Open Notebook, a website about the process of science journalism, as a senior editor. She is the editor of You Are Not Expected to Understand This: 26 Lines of Code That Changed the World, forthcoming from Princeton University Press, and co-editor of What Future: The Year’s Best Ideas to Reclaim, Reanimate, and Reinvent the Future (2019) and Future Tense Fiction: Stories of Tomorrow, both published by Unnamed Press.