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Skip Hollandsworth on storytelling, listening, Hollywood, respect and the importance of getting out into the world

Skip Hollandsworth on storytelling, listening, Hollywood, respect and the importance of getting out into the world

No bullet-point tips list could compare with Skip Hollandworth’s Sunday sermonizing, which closed the 2013 Mayborn Conference. What follows is the Mayborn's video of Hollandsworth (followed by our selected excerpts)…
August 1, 2013
Skip Hollandsworth: National Magazine Award winner, screenwriter, tipmaster

Skip Hollandsworth: National Magazine Award winner, screenwriter, tipmaster

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…
July 31, 2013

“Why’s this so good?” No. 41: Skip Hollandsworth and sacrifice

It was the altitude, officially. If the flight attendant was concerned about my tears, or if the little girl in the pink hoodie across the aisle was curious: Reading at…
May 8, 2012
How Pamela Colloff wrote her first book, about a con artist turned jailhouse informant

How Pamela Colloff wrote her first book, about a con artist turned jailhouse informant

The award-winning journalist discusses her new book, ‘Catch the Devil,’ for the Season Two premiere of the Nieman Storyboard podcast
July 17, 2026
‘Your story is worth telling’

‘Your story is worth telling’

Danyel Smith on journaling through life and work. Plus: National Book Award finalists, and the elements of a story pitch
October 10, 2025
Covering failures in the justice system with patience for facts and sensitivity to victims

Covering failures in the justice system with patience for facts and sensitivity to victims

Notes from The Mayborn: Pamela Colloff on how to walk the careful line between journalistic revelation and dramatic exploitation
July 31, 2019

Annotation Tuesday! Jeff Maysh and “The rise and fall of the Bombshell Bandit”

The writer talks about dealing with unreliable narrators and being drawn to people who live double lives -- including for this piece for BBC News
September 27, 2016
It's Mayborn week!

It’s Mayborn week!

The 2014 Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference opens Friday at the University of North Texas. The Saturday and Sunday workshops are full but you can still register for the keynote events. This year’s…
July 15, 2014
"Why's this so good?" No. 94: Joe Rhodes and Aunt Marge and the deep (deep) freeze

“Why’s this so good?” No. 94: Joe Rhodes and Aunt Marge and the deep (deep) freeze

Joe Rhodes pulls off the nearly impossible in “How My Aunt Marge Ended Up in the Deep Freeze,” an edgy New York Times magazine piece. He takes a horrific event—the…
June 30, 2014

The Music of Narrative: Songs from great literary journalism

A story without sound lies too dead on the page. Imagine “Mrs. Kelly’s Monster,” by Jon Franklin, without the pop … pop … pop of the operating-room sensors. Or Tom…
April 17, 2014