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The deadline for the 2017 Mayborn writing contests – personal essay, reported narrative and book manuscript – is EXTENDED to May 15! Register now for the conference and pick your contest category!
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For those who attended what was the 12th annual Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference, this video should surely bring back some memories.
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Each year, the Mayborn partners with Biographers International to offer a two- to three-week stay near Santa Fe, New Mexico, where you will work with award-winning author James McGrath Morris.
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Authors Sebastian Junger, Katherine Boo and Charles Johnson will be keynote speakers at this year’s Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference.
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Be sure and get your entries in to the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference writing contests and join us July 21-23 in Grapevine, Texas, when The Tribe reconvenes for another weekend of the country's most talented storytellers sharing their stories, life-changing experiences and expertise with you.
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Biographer James McGrath Morris shares selected excerpts from his book Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power
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Piqued by the enormity of the Groveland coverup, King set up shop in the Sunshine State and began four years of diving headfirst into long forgotten records.
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Jefferson observes and critiques others for a living, but she has spent much of her own life under the microscope, which she chronicled in her 2015 memoir Negroland.
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Though she’s no longer at a newspaper, WuDunn says the seeds of her activism today were sown 27 years ago when she was in China reporting on the 1989 democratic movement that was crushed by the government in Tiananmen.
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While Wilson is careful not to change a writer’s voice, as the editor his biggest job is to provide a framework for the story, ensuring there are no loose ends. - See more at: http://www.themayborn.com/article/elephant-room#sthash.E4sCjZ9D.dpuf