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Narrative nonfiction events and conferences--is there something here for you?

Narrative nonfiction events and conferences–is there something here for you?

While tracking digital narrative experiments, we at Storyboard also aim to keep readers informed about the world of traditional print narratives. Today we’ve compiled a list of upcoming events for…
February 22, 2010
Rick Moody's "Amazing Tale" invites readers to step right up

Rick Moody’s "Amazing Tale" invites readers to step right up

Our latest Notable Narrative plays a wonderful game of fulfilling expectations in surprising ways. In the January 2010 issue of Details, Rick Moody’s “The Amazing Tale of the High School…
February 18, 2010

The Small Story: long live the community-minded newspaper narrative

Cara Solomon sweats the small stuff.After a failed career as a television news intern and eight successful years as a print reporter, Solomon left her newspaper job on the West Coast…
February 16, 2010
Peggy Nelson on new media narratives: "Every Twitter account is a character"

Peggy Nelson on new media narratives: "Every Twitter account is a character"

We talked this week with Peggy Nelson, a new media artist who has spent the last several years doing digital and virtual storytelling. While Nelson’s work is rooted in conceptual…
February 12, 2010
Boston Bookfuturists look at mapping, charting new narratives

Boston Bookfuturists look at mapping, charting new narratives

Continuing the “future of narrative” theme for this week, today we look at some of the experimental stories discussed at the first-ever Boston Bookfuturists Meetup on January 29, hosted by Joanne…
February 11, 2010
How are you doing? Laura Mayer shares the stories that rise out of small talk

How are you doing? Laura Mayer shares the stories that rise out of small talk

Storyboard is always looking for new approaches to storytelling that could be useful for journalists, so we were curious when a reader sent us a link to the How Are…
February 9, 2010
Meg Laughlin on reporting from Haiti: "this is the face of the nation now"

Meg Laughlin on reporting from Haiti: "this is the face of the nation now"

Melissa Lyttle / St. Petersburg TimesSt. Petersburg Times reporter Meg Laughlin recently spent eight days in Haiti and the Dominican Republic covering the aftermath of the earthquake. She managed to…
February 4, 2010
Meg Laughlin chronicles survivors' suffering in Haiti

Meg Laughlin chronicles survivors’ suffering in Haiti

Our latest Notable Narrative concerns the recent earthquake in Haiti but takes place in a public hospital in the Dominican Republic. St. Petersburg Times reporter Meg Laughlin finds one doctor…
February 3, 2010

Sherman Alexie, Garry Kasparov, The Caravan and more! It's grab bag Friday…

Take a gander at some of the more interesting writing we’ve seen lately. These pieces are more or less narrative, and come at storytelling from different angles, but are all are worth…
January 29, 2010

Yahoo! Sports’ Dan Wetzel on digital narratives: "you’ve got to fight for every reader"

Storyboard contributor (and Charlotte Observer columnist) Tommy Tomlinson recently sent us a link to a sports narrative by Dan Wetzel, describing it as a great example of a story done on deadline. Tomlinson noted the pressures faced…
January 28, 2010