On Feb. 12, 2026, SFJ hosted a timely webinar with Minnesota Star Tribune features journalists who have spent more than two months covering the impacts of the ICE surge on the streets of Minneapolis and St. Paul. Watch the replay and read the stories that were discussed.

At a free SFJ webinar on Feb. 12, 2026, a panel of Minnesota Star Tribune feature writers will share their experiences covering the activities of immigration and border control agencies in their Minneapolis communities. Register for the webinar to save it to your calendar.

In a keynote presentation at the Society for Features Journalism conference, Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter Eli Saslow described his process for illuminating large, thorny issues through small, important moments.

Mark Warren won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing for the Esquire story “A Death in Alabama,” a narrative about a big event in a small Alabama town: The death of Bubba Copeland, a Baptist pastor and small-town mayor who ended his life after his private life was exposed on a right-wing media site. Warren shared the story behind that story at the 2025 Society for Features Journalism conference in Phoenix. 

The dynamic duo of writer Lane DeGregory and editor Maria Carrillo shared their tips for telling a great narrative. They stressed the importance of four essential ingredients: character, action, setting and theme.

The Society for Features Journalism inducted Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Lane DeGregory and veteran editor Maria Carrillo into the SFJ Hall of Fame at our conference in Phoenix on Nov. 6, 2025. Only 29 people, including Lane and Maria, have received this honor since 1997.

2025 SFJ Hall of Fame inductees Lane DeGregory and Maria Carrillo co-write an essay on why features journalism provides an important record of history.

The Society for Features Journalism’s first national conference since the pandemic will happen from Nov. 6-8, 2025 in Phoenix. The focus will be on craft, camaraderie, education and inspiration with speakers like Eli Saslow, Lane DeGregory, Mark Warren and many more. See the full conference program.

SFJ is partnering with Arizona State University’s Knight Center for the Future of News to present “The Power of AI: 9 Ideas You Can Take Home and Try” at our comeback conference. The workshop will be on Saturday morning, Nov. 8, 2025, and you can now register just for that day for only $50.

The Society for Features Journalism conference runs Nov. 6-8, but SFJ’s $189-a-night room block stretches from Nov. 3-11, making it easy to add vacation days to the start or end of the conference. It’s a great reason to join other talented features journalists as we reinvigorate our craft and spend a few days exploring Phoenix, the fifth largest city in the United States.

The Society for Features Journalism is bringing back an in-person national conference from Nov. 6-8, 2025 at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication in downtown Phoenix. Speakers will include Eli Saslow, Lane DeGregory, Mike Wilson, Mark Warren, Kim Cross and more, and AI realities will be tackled head-on.

This will be SFJ’s first official national conference since the pandemic. The theme is “Rewriting the Narrative.”

Journalist Mallary Tenore Tarpley, author of “Slip: Life in the Middle of Eating Disorder Recovery,” led an SFJ webinar about how to blend personal narrative and reportage in essays and books. Watch the replay here.