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Stephen Morrill has been freelancing full-time since 1984. During that time he has written more than 1000 articles for national and local magazines and for newspapers. Nationally, his work has appeared in such magazines as Horizon, World Wide Shipper, The Robb Report, Vista, The New York Times Magazine, and Business Age. In Florida his work has appeared in Changing Homes, Florida Business, Southern Homes, and in a variety of city magazines, business magazines and local newspapers.

For ten years he wrote a biweekly column about maritime trade for Florida Shipper magazine and he has written about maritime shipping for other trade publications. As a Reuters News Agency correspondent for the west coast of Florida, his writing has been used by newspapers, radio and television around the world.

In addition to general-interest articles, Steve has written extensively about wine, humor, international shipping and trade, business and finance, architecture and the outdoors, and military affairs. He was the founding editor of Know Tampa Bay, a 25,000-circulation quarterly relocation guide to the Tampa Bay area. Today, Steve edits Savvy Executive, a Tampa Bay business profile publication. In all, Steve has edited all of, or sections of, five magazines.

Through his writing career, Steve has photographed many of his stories and, depending upon the subject, is able to provide complete text/photo packages.

Steve has been honored by the Florida Magazine Association for his short humor and by the Florida Association of the American Institute of Architects for his writing about architecture.

Steve is a member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA) and whose web site he edits. He was founding president of the Bay Area Professional Writers Guild, a select group of full-time professionals in the Tampa Bay Area, and whose web site he edits. He was one of the charter members of the Tampa Writers Alliance, an organization for beginning writers, and for many years conducted their nonfiction training workshop.

In addition to his ongoing magazine assignments and the occasional brochure or other non-magazine work, Steve wrote City in the Sun, a History of St. Petersburg, Florida and Flying the Andes, a ghost-written account of Pan American-Grace Airways. He has written chapters in a number of military-related books.

Steve manages a number of web sites for professional groups, businesses, and himself.

He wrote, photographed, laid out and supervised the production of A Guide to Historic Architectural Resources and Historic Preservation in Unincorporated Hillsborough County, a 128-page book commissioned by a local government.

Steve started teaching nonfiction writing in 1988 for America Online. He has lectured throughout Florida on the subject of freelance writing. Since 1998, Steve has run WritersCollege.com which, with more than 60 courses, is one of the largest online correspondence writing schools.