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Third Annual Rockaway Writers Rendezvous
April 25-27, 2025 Rockaway Beach, Oregon
2025 KEYNOTE
We are excited to announce that Nicholas Kristof will be delivering this year’s Keynote!
ABOUT NICHOLAS
Nicholas Kristof is a columnist at The New York Times and a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize. He grew up on a farm in Oregon, graduated from Harvard, earned a First in law at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, and then studied Arabic in Cairo.
He was a foreign correspondent for The New York Times in Hong Kong, Beijing and Tokyo, then covered presidential elections and served as editor of The Sunday New York Times. After 9/11, he became an op-ed columnist.
Aside from his Pulitzers, he has won an Emmy and several humanitarian prizes. He has written six books, including the No. 1 best-seller “Half the Sky” and the memoir “Chasing Hope,” and has made several television documentaries.
Kristof, who has lived on four continents and traveled to more than 160 countries, was The New York Times’s first blogger, first video maker and first Snapchat contributor.
Chasing Hope: A Reporter’s Life
From New York Times columnist, Pulitzer Prize winner, and best-selling author Nicholas D. Kristof, an intimate and gripping memoir about a life in journalism
“Nick Kristof takes us behind the scenes as he risks his life to shine a light on the world’s most pressing problems and blaze a trail to a better future. In a time when trust in journalism is in jeopardy, his honesty, humility, and humanity are rays of hope.”
—Adam Grant, author of Hidden Potential
Stay tuned! Full program coming soon.
Make your plans now, we can help!
The many Rockaway Writers Rendezvous events will be held throughout the City of Rockaway Beach at venues easily walkable from one to the other. The full schedule—available soon!—will indicate locations for each event.
Some of the many writers workshops will be held simultaneously in different rooms or locations; others will gather everyone together in one venue (open mic evenings, keynote speakers).
Visitors will want make a full weekend of the fabulous RWR and take advantage of Rockaway’s seven miles of beach to explore and enjoy spectacular scenery of the Oregon coast! Do you need help finding lodging? Contact us!