The last day of the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference on Sunday brought great sessions, as usual, and a few totally unexpected surprises. I overslept a little, but made it in time for the fascinating 9:40 a.m. talk by Michael...
The Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference is offering $15,000 in prizes to narrative writers who take part in the annual gathering. Personal essays, reporting-and-research-based narratives and book manuscripts are eligible. The best work will be published in the journal Ten Spurs,...
As always when writing about the Mayborn, I really wanted to spin this note as a narrative: "Feeling fatigued yet doggedly determined to serve the readers of Texas, the editor cracked his knuckles, sipped his coffee and faced his computer."...