Story Craft

Editor's note: First, an introduction, by Jacqui Banaszynski, the Knight Chair in Editing at the Missouri School of Journalism, and winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing: Whenever aspiring young…

Editor’s note: This is the fourth and last piece covering this year’s “Power of Storytelling” conference, in Bucharest. For the setup, and to watch Esquire‘s Chris Jones talk about the intersection of storytelling and…

Editor's note: This is the third piece covering this year’s “Power of Storytelling” conference in Bucharest. For the setup, and to watch Esquire's Chris Jones talk about the intersection of storytelling…

Editor's note: This is the second installment covering this year's "Power of Storytelling," an annual conference in Bucharest. For the setup, and to watch the first installment, in which Esquire's Chris…

Editor’s note: A few weeks ago, Romania’s Decât o Revistă magazine attracted a crowd of writers, editors, photographers and designers to its third annual “Power of Storytelling” conference, in Bucharest. The conference,…

An interesting writing move recently caught my eye in Rosalind Bentley's Atlanta Journal-Constitution profile of poet laureate Natasha Trethewey. For lack of a better name, I’ll call it the "narrative…

Detroit Week continues here on Storyboard, with an appearance by radio storyteller Glynn Washington, a Motor City native and host of the hot NPR show Snap Judgment. We recently ran Part 1…

If you missed a post or two in our weeklong recap of this year's Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference, here's the roundup: On Tuesday, the Tampa Bay Times' Kelley Benham and…

Mayborn Week continues: Skip Hollandsworth, a veteran writer for Texas Monthly, specializes in the kind of true-crime narrative yarns that are always bigger in Texas. In 2010, Hollandsworth won a National Magazine…

Tampa Bay Times reporter Kelley Benham went into labor four months early and delivered her daughter, Juniper, at 23 weeks: a baby who weighed 20 ounces and was no taller…