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Jacqui Banaszynski

@JacquiB

Jacqui Banaszynski retired as the endowed Knight Chair in Editing at the Missouri School of Journalism in 2017, is editor emerita at Nieman Storyboard, and a faculty fellow at the Poynter Institute. She won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize in feature writing for “AIDS in the Heartland,” a series about a gay farm couple facing AIDS, and was a finalist for the 1986 Pulitzer in international reporting for her account of the sub-Saharan famine.

Narrative in a weekend conference, and the thank-you note that followed

Narrative in a weekend conference, and the thank-you note that followed

Power of Storytelling 2018, Bucharest, RomaniaBelow is a post offered on Facebook earlier this month as a thank you to speakers and attendees at the 8th Edition of the Power…
October 31, 2018
"How could you have a new country without excellent dreamers?"

“How could you have a new country without excellent dreamers?”

—A character in "The Plover," a novel by Brian Doyle
October 25, 2018
Don't be a turkey: Earn your flight wings

Don’t be a turkey: Earn your flight wings

Editor’s note: At Storyboard, we’re always looking for moments of inspiration, epiphany and, yes, struggle that we can all relate to or learn from. We hope to make such discoveries…
October 17, 2018

“The girl, Fernanda Jacqueline Davila, was 2 years old: brief life, long journey.” 

—Vivian Yee and Miriam Jordan of The New York Times
October 11, 2018
"From the dancing came the dancing."

“From the dancing came the dancing.”

— Tommy Orange in his debut novel "There There"
October 4, 2018
"Just be the kite."

“Just be the kite.”

—Robin Enger to her husband, novelist Leif Enger
September 25, 2018
"No matter how long we study them, the images are unfathomable. No matter how quickly we look away, they are unforgettable."

“No matter how long we study them, the images are unfathomable. No matter how quickly we look away, they are unforgettable.”

—Chuck Haga, Sept. 16, 2001, the Star Tribune of the Twin Cities
September 12, 2018
"Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it."

“Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.”

—Poet Mary Oliver, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award
September 5, 2018
Rebecca Solnit's long and winding road through the tangled tale of politics

Rebecca Solnit’s long and winding road through the tangled tale of politics

The opening paragraph of Rebecca Solnit’s new LitHub essay, “Why the President Must Be Impeached,” is a single sentence, 88 words long. It is one of the shortest paragraphs in…
September 4, 2018
"Words. Words upon the wind. What will endure, perhaps is what I have written. If so, it is enough."

“Words. Words upon the wind. What will endure, perhaps is what I have written. If so, it is enough.”

—Journalist and Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Geraldine Brooks
August 22, 2018