Welcome to MAYBORN’s Ongoing Narratives. Here you can join the Mayborn Writer’s Colony Blog and weigh in on narrative issues and articles.
MAYBORN is for narrative writers and students in the Southwest, and for those who love to read. It’s a place where the known and the not-yet-known can gather side by side, sharing nonfiction stories – and how they got them.
We invite you to read and comment on the collection of compelling stories, interviews and narratives in our new MAYBORN magazine. Many of the pieces are written by writers and authors speaking at the Mayborn Conference next month. You can access MAYBORN magazine’s web interface and blog by going to www.theMayborn.com.
Dear Literary Journalists and Storytellers,
I invite you to read and comment on the collection of compelling stories, interviews and narratives in our new MAYBORN magazine. And while you’re at it, check out the literary pieces in TEN SPURS, the “best of the best” of the Mayborn Conference. There’s much to talk about, and I’m ready to talk.
Adios,
George Getschow
Writer-in-Residence
The Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Writers Conference of the Southwest
I am pleased that the Mayborn continues to offer unprecedented opportunities to writers, both experienced and aspiring writers, to engage with one another in an ongoing effort to become better at their craft. I especially appreciate Ron Johnson for creating this site, George Getschow, the Mayborn Writer-in-Residence, Cathy Booth Thomas, editor of MAYBORN magazine and so many others who make this entire narrative journalism experience worthwhile.
Of all the speakers at the Mayborn, Bob Shacochis left the strongest impression — in the sense that folks were still arguing about him Sunday morning. I think the Mayborn could use a good dose of argument, and i think journalism needs an argument specifically about the issues Bob raised. We talk a lot about the ethics of what we do — don’t make stuff up, don’t climb into bed with your sources — but not so much about the morality — who’s affected, who’s being exploited and to what ends?
I’d like to see Bob’s talk posted on this blog (if, in fact, ihe was working from a written text), and I’d like to see more of the kind of conversation we had afterwards.