Elizabeth Gonzalez James is a novelist and essayist whose chapbook Five Conversations About Peter Sellers (Texas Review Press) puts the creative in creative nonfiction.

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Show Notes: Brendanomeara.com

Substack: rageagainstthealgorithm.substack.com

Erica J. Berry (@ericajberry) is back, this time to talk about her book Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear (Flatiron Books).

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Beer discount: athleticbrewing.com, enter BRENDANO20 at checkout for a discount.

David Maraniss is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the author of several biographies, his latest being Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe. 

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Kim H. Cross is a freelance writer, an instructor, a mountain bike head coach and author of The Stahl House. 

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Support: Patreon.com/cnfpod

Sponsor: Athletic Greens

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Katia Savchuk (@katiasav) is a freelancer journalist and wrote an incredible piece for The Atavist Magazine. We talk to her as well as editor-in-chief Seyward Darby.

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Dan Schwartz (@danjschwartz) is a freelance investigative journalist based out of Colorado. He's got a new piece in the Atlantic about climate change and how local weathermen are the most trusted people to sound the alarm about it.

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Get the gig you want with the skills you've got, that's the subtitle of Damon Brown's new book, Career Remix. It's published by Sterling.

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Support: patreon.com/cnfpod

Debbie Millman (@debbiemillman) is the host of the incredible Design Matters podcast and the author of Why Design Matters: Conversations with the World's Most Creative People (Porchlight Books, 2022).

Social: @CNFPod

Support: patreon.com/cnfpod

Sponsor: West Virginia Wesleyan College's MFA in Creative Writing

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Bradford Pearson (@bradfordpearson) is a journalist, editor, and author of The Eagles of Heart Mountain: A True Story Of Football, Incarceration, and Resistance in World War II America.

Sponsor: West Virginia Wesleyan College's MFA in Creative Writing

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Sonya Huber (@sonyahuber) is the author of the memoir Supremely Tiny Acts: A Memoir of a Day (Mad Creek Books). 

Show notes: brendanomeara.com

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Social Media: @CNFPod

Sponsor: West Virginia Wesleyan College's MFA in Creative Writing

Mirin Fader (@mirinfader) is a senior staff writer for The Ringer and the author of Giannis: The Improbable Rise of an MVP.

She was twice featured as a notable selection in the Year's Best Sports Writing for her piece on Tyler Skaggs and Gigi Bryant. 

This episode is dedicated to Kim H. Cross.

Sponsor: West Virginia Wesleyan College's MFA in Creative Writing

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Show notes: brendanomeara.com

Flinder Boyd (@FlinderBoyd) is a freelance journalist whose piece "20 Minutes in Rucker Park" turns ten this year. He's also a filmmaker and a former professional basketball player.

Show notes/newsletter: brendanomeara.com

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Support: Patreon.com/cnfpod

Jesse Springer (@springertoons) is a graphic designer and Oregon-based political cartoonist. His latest book, "Only in Oregon," is a greatest hits collection of his cartoons over the span of 26 years.

You can buy the book at springerdesign.biz/books.

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For this month's Atavist bonus episode, I speak with Annelise Jolley and Zahara Gomez about their collaboration titled "A Feast for Lost Souls."

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Tony Perrottet is a journalist and historian whose latest piece is "The Butcher of Havana" for The Atavist Magazine.

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Kim H. Cross (@kimhcross) is the author of The Stahl House: Case Study House #22: The Making of a Modernist Icon (Chronicle Chroma).

She is a best selling author and her work has been featured in The Years' Best Sports Writing and Best American Sports Writing, among many other places.

Sponsor: West Virginia Wesleyan College's MFA in Creative Writing

Patreon: patreon.com/cnfpod

Social Media: @CNFPod (twitter) and @creativenonfictionpodcast (IG)

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Susan Orlean is the best selling author of The Library Book, Rin Tin Tin, and The Orchid Thief. She's a staff writer for The New Yorker and her latest collection is On Animals.

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Social Media: @CNFPod on Twitter and @creativenonfictionpodcast on Instagram.

Laura Todd Carns (@LauraToddCarns) comes by the show to talk about her Atavist feature "Searching for Mr. X."

We also hear from the lead editor of the piece Seyward Darby. Visit magazine.atavist.com to read the piece and subscribe to The Atavist.

Keep the conversation going @creativenonfictionpodcast on IG and @CNFPod on Twitter.

Show notes and to sign up for the Up to 11 Newsletter, visit brendanomeara.com.

Allison K. Williams returns to talk about her new book Seven Drafts: Self-Edit Like a Pro from Blank Page to Book (Woodhall Press, 2021). She's @GuerillaMemoir on social media.

Thanks to West Virginia Wesleyan College's MFA in Creative Writing for the support.

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Show notes/newsletter: brendanomeara.com

Earl Swift, author of Across the Airless Wilds: The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings, returns to talk about his latest book.

Sponsor help: West Virginia Wesleyan College's MFA in Creative Writing

Membership: patreon.com/cnfpod

Social Media: @CNFPod

Ruby McConnell is the author of Ground Truth: A Geological Survey of a Life and A Woman's Guide to the Wild.

She is @rubygonewild on Twitter and Instagram.

Show notes are at brendanomeara.com and you can support the show by heading to patreon.com/cnfpod. 

Thanks to West Virginia Wesleyan College's MFA in Creative Writing for the support.

Shanna B. Tiayon comes by to talk about her Pipe Wrench Magazine piece "If We Can Soar," as well as her work in Longreads, and is she training for a Half Ironman?

You can her @shannbtiayon on Twitter and @black_suburban_homestead on Instagram.

Support: West Virginia Wesleyan College's MFA in Creative Writing and Hippocamp 2021.

Show notes: brendanomeara.com

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Nile Cappello (@liketheriver_) returns to talk about her Atavist piece for Feb. 2023.

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Alison Herman (@aherman2006) is a critic for The Ringer. Her piece on David Gelb, Jiro Dreams of Sushi, and the Chef's Table industrial complex prompted this great conversation.

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Support: Patreon.com/cnfpod

Show notes/links: brendanomeara.com

Suzanne Roberts (@suzanneroberts28) is the author of Bad Tourist: Misadventures in Love and Travel (University of Nebraska Press, 2020). 

Suzanne talks about:

• Big wins
• Writing in community
• The Wordy Girls
• Rejection clubs
• And how not to sound like a douchebag when talking about travel

Support for the show:

• West Virginia Wesleyan College's MFA in Creative Writing
• HippoCamp21

Patreon: patreon.com/cnfpod

Social Media: @CNFPod

Show notes: brendanomeara.com

Ariel Ramchandani (@arielramch) and Seyward Darby (@seywarddarby) stop by the show to talk about "No Place Like Home," the podcast they're producing with The Atavist Magazine and Cadence 13.

It tells the story of the stolen ruby slippers. 

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Show notes: brendanomeara.com

Rachel Monroe (@rachmonroe) is a freelance journalist whose work appears in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and The Oxford American.

Keep the conversation going @CNFPod and consider supporting the show by visiting the Patreon page: patreon.com/cnfpod.

Show notes at brendanomeara.com.

Michelle Weber (@michelleinchief) and Catherine Cusick (@cusickcatherine) come by to talk about their exciting venture Pipe Wrench Magazine.

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Show notes: brendanomeara.com

"Everything we do as freelance business owners is a leap of faith," says Wudan Yan (@wudanyan), co-host of The Writers' Co-op Podcast with Jenni Gritters (@jenni_gritters).

They talk about:

• Business proposals
• The most common questions they get as coaches
• Jenni "leaving" journalism
• And so much more!

Sponsors: West Virginia Wesleyan College's MFA in Creative Writing and HippoCamp 2021

Jordan Michael Smith (@WriterJMS) came by CNFPod HQ to talk about his piece for The Atavist Magazine, a true-crime zinger.

We talk about:

• Structure and pacing
• Obsession and singular focus
• How he's a better reporter than a writer
• And depth of commitment

Social media: @CNFPod

Support the show: patreon.com/cnfpod

Lilly Dancyger (@lillydancyger) came by CNF Pod HQ to talk all things memoir and her new book Negative Space. 

She talks about how:

• It took her 10 years to write it
• Sticking to her creative guns
• Community over networking
• And taking the slime off of branding

Patreon: patreon.com/cnfpod

Social media: @cnfpod and @BrendanOMeara

Sports writer, podcast host, radio host, Julie DiCaro comes by to talk about her book Sidelined, a book about being a woman in America. 

Keep the conversation going on Twitter @CNFPod and find show notes to this and other episodes at brendanomeara.com.

Check out patreon.com/cnfpod for ways to support the show and get some cool swag!

Glenn Stout returns to talk about his thrilling book The Tiger Girl and the Candy Kid: America's First Gangster Couple.

Isaac Fitzgerald is the author of Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confession (Bloomsbury) and a frequent contributor to The Today Show.

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Show notes/newsletter: brendanomeara.com

Canadian writer and journalist Lindsay Jones stops by HQ to talk about her Atavist story The Milk Box Babies about the cottage hospital industry of rural Canada and the secret that upended two families.

I also speak with editor-in-chief Seyward Darby.

Subscribe to The Atavist and the podcast. 

Keep the conversation going @CNFPod on Twitter and IG and consider supporting the show at patreon.com/cnfpod.

"How do you find your style? How do you find your voice? And the truth is, I think that you don't find it until you stop trying to find it, you just make work," says Jason Naylor, @jasonnaylor, author and illustrator of Live Life Colorfully: 99 Ideas to Add Joy, Positivity, and Creativity to Your Life. It is published by Chronicle Prism.

Newsletter: brendanomeara.com

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The journalist Phil Hoad comes by to talk about this Atavist story "Cat and Mouse" about a rash of pet murders in London. 

We're also joined by lead editor Jonah Ogles, who unpacks Phil's pitch and what made the story irresistible.

Keep the conversation going on social media @CNFPod and sign up for the monthly CNFin' newsletter at brendanomeara.com.

Claire McNear is a staff writer for The Ringer and the author of Answers in the Form of Questions: A Definitive History and Insider's Guide to Jeopardy! (Twelve, 2020).

We jam about her rise in longform journalism and how she came to write this great book.

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Damon Brown (@browndamon) returns to talk about his new book Build From Now: Know Your Power, Know Your Abundance and Nourish the World.

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Show notes and newsletter at brendanomeara.com

This show is brought to you by Vol. III of Casualty of Words, a writing podcast for people in a hurry.

Carolyn Holbrook is the author of Tell Me Your Names and I Will Testify: Essays (University of Minnesota Press).

We talk about how teaching and writing keeps her sane, not giving a rip about winning awards (and winning one anyway!), and how she arrived at linked essays as a way to write what is, in effect, a memoir.

Show notes are at brendanomeara.com and if you want to break out some cash, we've got some amazing goodies at patreon.com/cnfpod.

Keep the conversation going on social media @CNFPod. 

Investigative journalist Scott Eden returns to the podcast to talk about his Atavist story "The Gilded Age."

This is a new and exciting partnership with The Atavist Magazine where we at CNF Pod HQ will feature The Atavist's featured writer and featured story for that month.

Check out this story and others at magazine.atavist.com and subscribe to read blockbuster journalism, beautifully told, beautifully designed.

Follow @atavist, @CNFPod and @BrendanOMeara.

Show notes are at brendanomeara.com. Patreon is here. Check it out!

Alexandra DiPalma, the boss behind Domino Sound and the leader of the Podcast Workshop, is back to talk all things podcasting!

Check out akimbo.com/thepodcastworkshop to learn more and if you use the link in the show notes at brendanomeara.com, you could take advantage of a killer discount on the seventh iteration of the workshop.

We talk about her winning the golden ticket by working with Seth Godin, launching her own company, and much, much more.

Keep the conversation going on social media @CNFPod and consider being a member at patreon.com/cnfpod.

Ashkan Soltani Stone and Natale Zappia co-write the book Rez Metal: Inside the Navajo Nation Heavy Metal Scene (University of Nebraska Press). They riff about getting out of the way of the story and the collaborative process.

Show notes are at brendanomeara.com and consider becoming a CNFin' member over at Patreon, patreon.com/cnfpod.

Keep the conversation going @CNFPod and let us know what's on your mind. 

Podcasters and writers V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell come by CNF Pod HQ to talk about their writing nonfiction, writing novels, and producing their wonderful podcast Fiction/Non/Fiction. It is part of the Lithub Radio Network.

Follow the show @CNFPod and if you dig this CNFin' enterprise, consider the killer options at Patreon page, patreon.com/cnfpod.

Damon Brown is the author of many books including Career Remix and Build from Now, and a content creator at youtube.com/@browndamon and career coach.

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Show notes/newsletter: brendanomeara.com

"Writing a book could potentially be very tedious, but I'm writing to make myself laugh or cry. If I'm not crying or laughing, I'm like, so bored," says Michael Leviton (@michaelleviton).

He's the author of the memoir To Be Honest. It is published by Abrams Press.

Keep the conversation going on social media @CNFPod and consider being a member of the Patreon community, patreon.com/cnfpod.

Athletic Brewing's Mason Gravely (@alive_adventures on IG) is here to talk about his experience on the Without Compromise podcast he produces for Athletic, as well as the Adventure Sports Podcast, biking across the country, nearly DYING, and lots more.

Keep the conversation going on social media @CNFPod and consider joining our Patreon community to support the audio magazine and the continued production of this here show. Patreon.com/cnfpod.

Lamorna Ash (@LamornaAsh) is the author of Dark, Salt, Clear: The Life of a Fishing Town (Bloombury). 

Her background in anthropology served her well as she immersed herself in the fishing town of Newlyn. 

Keep the conversation going on social media @CNFPod and consider being a CNFin' member on patreon.com/cnfpod.

Support for this show goes to Wudan Yan and Jenni Gritters of The Writers' Co-op Podcast. 

Show notes can be found at brendanomeara.com. 

The first Creative Nonfiction Podcast Audio Magazine is on the theme of ISOLATION: Essays about feeling alone.

We bring you essays from Damon Brown, Magin LaSov Gregg, Gina Cardarelli, Kristina Gaddy, and April Nance.

You'll want to share this with your fellow CNFers because we're going to want to showcase the beautiful work done by these five authors, and we want to open up the possibilities to others.

This issue will be free and available for all time on the CNF Pod feed, but in order to access subsequent issues, you'll have to be a member at Patreon.com/CNFPod. The introductory tier, and all the other ones, will give you access to the magazine (among other things). 

You'll want to follow the show @CNFPod on social media and plug into what these courageous writers are doing as well.

I hope you enjoy this very first audio magazine and I hope you'll consider submitting your work to the next one (HINT: the new theme and submission guidelines are at the end of this episode!).

From all of us here at CNF Pod HQ: Riff!