We talked last week with Roy Wenzl, who wrote “Promise Not To Tell,” our last Notable Narrative for 2010. A reporter with The Wichita Eagle, Wenzl has a few other Notable Narratives under his belt, along with awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and the American Association of Sunday and Feature Editors. His latest [...]
Tag Archives: The Wichita Eagle
Roy Wenzl on abuse narratives and victims’ voices: “With a story like this, you just need to say what happened”
December 22, 2010 – 9:58 am
Telling their story, twins turn horror into hope for a different life
December 20, 2010 – 4:58 pm
In our latest Notable Narrative, “Promise Not To Tell,” we meet Kellie and Kathie Henderson, two girls raped day after day by their brother, and later their father, for nearly a decade. Their abusers jailed, they are now trying to find a way to live the rest of their lives.
While narratives about family tragedy are legion, [...]
Tommy Tomlinson on Ze Frank, newspapers and what comes next
September 7, 2010 – 1:49 pm
Tommy Tomlinson has been a local columnist for The Charlotte Observer for the past 13 years but recently announced that he’s switching jobs to embark on a storytelling experiment for the paper. A former Nieman fellow and Storyboard contributor, Tomlinson was also a Pulitzer finalist for commentary in 2005. We’ve covered other innovative storytelling efforts [...]
What we’re reading, second edition: in which we offer soccer balls, the Book of Revelation and a visit to the Khyber Pass
June 30, 2010 – 3:38 pm
In our new installment of written work worth checking out, we encourage you to think about the history of the soccer ball, the awesomeness that was the 1975 Cincinnati Reds, the expanding ramifications of the oil disaster in the Gulf, the many things we receive from our parents, and one former Marine’s problem with the [...]
Once a Cowboy
July 23, 2004 – 4:33 pm
With this story, it seems to us, Wenzl and his editors (Polly Basore, Kevin McGrath and Marcia Werts) took a gamble. Would people read a story about a ranch? About a family trying to save it? Turns out Wenzl had writer’s luck: He discovered a compelling dramatic complication—an estranged son—and witnessed its resolution.
Wenzl evokes [...]
