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Shanna B. Tiayon came on the show to talk about her Pipe Wrench Magazine piece “If We Can Soar.” It’s a remarkable piece.
We talk about that and much, much more.
Check out her TEDx talk about her experience at the Grand Canyon, and read about it on Longreads.
As always, keep the conversation going @CNFPod and consider becoming a member at Patreon, patreon.com/cnfpod.
Brin-Jonathan Butler returns to talk about his new piece “Giving Up the Ghost.” It ran on Hazlitt.net.
It’s one of the greatest things I’ve ever read. It’s 23,000 words. I read it twice. I still can’t stop thinking about it.
Continue reading “Episode 271: Brin-Jonathan Butler, ‘The Passenger,’ and ‘Giving Up the Ghost’”
Daniel Kolitz wrote about Enthusiastic Sobriety for The Atavist Magazine, so we talk about how he went about reporting and writing the piece.
I also speak with lead editor Jonah Ogles about what made this story so special.
Sponsor love: West Virginia Wesleyan College’s MFA in Creative Writing and HippoCamp21. Use CNFPod21 for $50 off your registration!
Become a Patron!Cecilia Brown (@cecilbrownn) is on the show to talk about “So Nice to Hear Your Voice,” her This American Life essay about her grandmother. We get into the behind-the-scenes of the piece. Great stuff.
What else do we get into?
Continue reading “Episode 269: The Visionary Life of Cecilia Brown, Making Pictures, and This American Life”
Sponsors: West Virginia Wesleyan College’s MFA in Creative Writing and HippoCamp 2021.
Become a Patron!Alison Herman (@aherman2006) is a staff writer for The Ringer, who writes about all kinds of TV and movies and the like.
What prompted this conversation was her piece about David Gelb, the filmmaker behind Jiro Dreams of Sushi and Chef’s Table.
In this episode we talk about:
Continue reading “Episode 268: Overcoming Bad Viewing Hygiene with The Ringer’s Alison Herman”
Lovely sponsors: West Virginia Wesleyan College’s MFA in Creative Writing and HippoCamp21.
Become a Patron!The writer Suzanne Roberts (@suzanneroberts28) came by CNF Pod HQ to talk all things writing and memoir and Bad Tourist: Misadventures in Love and Travel (University of Nebraska Press, 2020).
Had a wonderful time talking to her about:
Continue reading “Episode 267: Suzanne Roberts on Big Wins, Rejection Clubs, and ‘Bad Tourist’”Become a Patron!View on Zencastr
Kristen Radtke is the author of Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness. Let me tell you, CNFers, this book spoke to me like few others do. Such is the life as a lonely podcaster.
Continue reading “Episode 266: The Expansive Nothing You Have to Fill with Kristen Radtke”
It’s that time!
For Issue 3 of the audio magazine, the theme is HEROES. Hero worship. Hero sandwiches. Fallen idols. Should you meet your heroes? Superheroes. Is Batman a superhero? HEROES!
I want your best essays on heroes. Essays are meant to be read aloud and should be no longer than 2,000 words.
Email with HERO in the subject line your best essay to creativenonfictionpodcast at gmail dot com.
Deadline is Nov. 1, 2021! DEADLINE IS DECEMBER 31, 2021
This issue, like Issue 2, is available to members of the Patreon community. This is what allows me to pay writers for their work should I accept their essays.
If you like what we’re doing with the interview product, as well as the audio magazine, then please become a member. Check it out: patreon.com/cnfpod.
Ariel Ramchandani and Seyward Darby, in association with Cadence 13 and The Atavist Magazine, are producing “No Place Like Home,” an eight-part narrative podcast telling the story of the stolen ruby slippers, the ones worn by Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz.
So we get into what the production of the podcast has been like, given that Seyward and Ariel are primarily print people, the origins of the project, getting good tape, and how producing a narrative podcast is very much like being in the kitchen.
Enjoy, CNFers.
Sponsors: West Virginia Weslyen College’s MFA in Creative Writing and HippoCamp2021 (Enter CNFPod21 for $50 off your registration!)
Become a Patron!Rachel Monroe (@rachmonroe) is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic and myriad other places.
Her latest piece for The New Yorker is about ransomware and hacker negotiators. She wrote a piece about #vanlife for The New Yorker back in 2017 that garnered all kinds of buzz.
Continue reading “Episode 264: Rachel Monroe Talks About the Things Writers Don’t Tweet About”