January 24, 2013 – 9:54 am
Kelley Benham French’s “Never Let Go,” about the extremely premature birth of her daughter, Juniper, was included in Storyboard’s Best of Narrative list for 2012, and our final Notable Narrative of the year. The five-part series ran last month in the Tampa Bay Times. French’s colleague and close friend Ben Montgomery spoke with her recently about the story. [...]
February 24, 2012 – 12:50 pm
We recently noticed that Los Angeles Times reporter Christopher Goffard had expanded a series he had done for the paper into the book “You Will See Fire.” We’ve talked with other narrative journalists who have done a similar thing (David Finkel, Tom French), but in this case, we thought it would be interesting to focus [...]
February 21, 2012 – 6:25 pm
It’s time for our annual almost-spring listing of 2012 writing events and conferences. From California to Texas and Boston, there are options to work on your writing or storytelling skills coast to coast. Whether you want to sharpen up your scene-setting, peek into the world of multimedia, or just network with others who are devoted [...]
By Andrea Pitzer
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Posted in narrative news
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Also tagged Adam Hochschild, American Society of Journalists and Authors, Amy Harmon, Amy O'Leary, AWP, Biographers International Organization, Boston University, Chris Jones, Dagoberto Gilb, Dan Ferber, Evan Ratliff, Isabel Wilkerson, Jack El-Hai, Janine Latus, Jay Allison, Jeanne Marie Laskas, Jerald Walker, Kathleen Sharp, Luis Alberto Urrea, Luis Rodriguez, Maria Balinska, Marilynne Robinson, Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference, Rebecca Skloot, Richard Rhodes, Samuel Freedman, Seth Mnookin, The Muse and the Marketplace, Tracy Daugherty, Wendy Call
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October 14, 2011 – 4:31 pm
Our latest Editors’ Roundtable looks at “Autistic and Seeking a Place in an Adult World.” Amy Harmon’s story follows Justin Canha, an autistic man in his early 20s, and the many people trying to help him learn to live independently. A reporter for the New York Times, Harmon has won two Pulitzer Prizes: one in [...]
March 11, 2011 – 11:15 am
We spoke this week with The New York Times’ David Barstow, who wrote and helped report our latest Notable Narrative, “Deepwater Horizon’s Final Hours.” The project, a fine-grained look at the crew’s last moments aboard the doomed oil rig, ran at the end of December, and we learned through Barstow that Summit Entertainment has recently [...]
January 20, 2011 – 11:53 am
Was one of your resolutions in 2011 to become a better storyteller? If so, here are a few conferences and workshops slated for the coming months that can probably teach you a thing or two. These sessions range from one-day conferences to week-long writing intensives, and none of them are free (they range from less [...]
By Andrea Pitzer
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Posted in narrative news, words
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Also tagged Alexandra Johnson, Biographers International Organization, Boston University narrative conference, David Finkel, Diane Ackerman, Frank Deford, Gene Weingarten, James Franco, Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference, Pauline Chen, Poynter Institute, Rahna Reiko Rizzuto, Robert Caro, Stacy Schiff
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November 9, 2010 – 4:36 pm
Roy Peter Clark holds the post of senior scholar at the Poynter Institute, and as such is one of narrative journalism’s hardest-working midwives. You may have already encountered him here on Storyboard or through his books on writing, including “Coaching Writers” and more recently, “The Glamour of Grammar.” We had hoped to bring you highlights from [...]
September 14, 2010 – 12:38 pm
In 2007, St. Petersburg Times reporter Tom French delivered a nine-part series about Tampa’s Lowry Park Zoo, which led to the writing of “Zoo Story,” published in July. In his book, French focuses on the lives of a number of mammals, including Enshalla (a tiger), Herman (a chimp) and Lex Salisbury (the director of the zoo). [...]
By Andrea Pitzer
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Posted in words
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Also tagged Anne Hull, Anthony Shadid, Ben Montgomery, Colum McCann, Dana Priest, David Finkel, David Grann, Edmund Fountain, Indiana University School of Journalism, Lane DeGregory, St. Petersburg Times, The New York Times, The Virginian-Pilot, Waveney Ann Moore
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