Story Craft

Storytelling advice from Ken Burns, the Boston Globe, The New Yorker's Sarah Stillman, The Atavist, Jabari Asim, and Keith O’Brien

The New Yorker staff writer and bestselling author speaks at the Power of Narrative conference about investigating a 19-year-old's mysterious death

Plus: Audio Flux wants your (short) story, and Tom Junod on publishing his first book at age 67

From the Nieman Storyboard archives: Here are the strategies journalists use to find their next big story

Roy Peter Clark shares lessons from his latest book, and calls on journalists to share their knowledge with the next generation

A Zoom with Susan Orlean reveals an ending for Ellie Silverman’s story about a D.C. officer five years after Jan. 6, 2021

Talusan, who teaches creative nonfiction at Brown University, asks her students to first challenge themselves in small ways

From the Nieman Storyboard archives: How journalists capture dialogue between a character and friends, strangers, and themselves

As a reporting team revisited a series of bombings across the South in the 1990s, fears of political backlash remained prevalent

From the Nieman Storyboard archives: the descriptions, the scenes, and the internal thoughts that bring characters to life in narrative nonfiction