This series comprises textual records and sound recordings relating to June Callwood's freelance writing for magazines and newspapers, other short writings, and broadcasting work. It holds typescript drafts of her articles, clippings of the publications, scripts for radio and television, audio interviews, and correspondence with editors from various periodicals and publishing houses, and others who wished to solicit her written work, asking for articles, prefaces, forewords, and other contributions. "Chatelaine", "Canadian Living", "This Magazine", "Globe and Mail", "Homemakers's Magazine", "Maclean's", Coach House Press, and Penguin Books, are among the publications and publishers represented in the series. Her correspondents include Sally Armstrong, Libby Scheier, Susan Crean, Mel Hurtig, Knowlton Nash, Linda Rainsberry, Meg Masters, Andrew Danson, Carl E. Hiebert, Malcolm Lester, Robert Lewis, Anna Porter, Lynn Crosbie, Moira Simpson, John Fraser, Tony Hauser, and Katherine Govier.
The subjects of her writing ranged from public figures like Jack Kent Cooke, Jay Silverheels, Robert Coote, and Clarence M. Hincks, to issues, events and activities such as child welfare and poverty, women's health, the Royal Tour, the Avro Arrow, gliding, racing cars, and leisure, among many others. Her scripts for radio and television programs are supplemented by correspondence, program outlines, publicity material, and other records which document her broadcasting work. There is material for CBC and CTV television programs like "In Touch", "Talkback", "Heritage", "The Human Journey", and "Toronto Today". An interesting item in this sub-series is Margaret Atwood's short story, "Hack Wednesday", based on June's career with the "Globe and Mail" (vol. 50, file 6). The series also includes sound recordings of June Callwood's interviews of veteran CFRB radio broadcaster Jack Dennett and his wife Norma, shortly before his death of cancer in 1975, and journalist Betty Kennedy in 1976 for an article on her and her late husband.
