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In the 11 years since The Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference made its debut, we’ve seen quite a few faces come and go. Here’s what some of the members of “the tribe” have been up to since they last graced our summer stage.
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One week before conference alum Kevin Fedarko returns to the 2013 Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference, The Dallas Morning News has great things to say for the author's literary journey through the Grand Canyon.
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An article in The Washington Post about a Manassas, Va., swimming pool salesman experiencing the unraveling of his decades-long success story during a summer of disappointments received the first place award in the first Best American Newspaper Narrative Writing Contest sponsored by the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference.
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On showing up:
One common refrain in many of the talks and panel discussions that resonated with me had to do with "showing up.” Kevin Merida, managing editor of The Washington Post, said when he was researching and reporting for his biography of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas he sent out letters requesting interviews that almost invariably were denied. But when he showed up in person, people would talk to him.