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stories true. weekly conversations around telling true stories Home Latest Main Category Essay All of Us Ghosts This is how ghosts represent trans people. Cactus Country made me realize nonbinariness was a spirit that wanted me to notice it,” writes Bruce Owens Grimm in their review essay of Zöe Bossiere’s new memoir. Featured Essays & Reviews T The Writing Life: How Teaching Helped Me Reclaim My Voice Olga Katsovskiy explores getting over the writer’s block she faced after her dad’s death through teaching others to "find the question that needs to be answered." M Meeting the Complexity of Grief Pam Anderson shows how B.J. Hollars takes on the complex task of writing about grief without sounding cliche or trite in his memoir, Year of Plenty: A Family’s Season of Grief. T Truth, Shame, and Writing A Memoir Jonathan Corcoran explores how shame and family secrets nearly prevented him from writing his memoir. W What If I’m Right About Being Trans Writer Rey Katz reflects on the importance of language in trans narratives in this review of Schulyer Bailar’s book He/She/They. W When the Writing Is the Grieving After the death of her husband, Dominque Conway reflects on words, grief, and writing. R Rewriting Your Code College junior Aniya Carrington writes about what happens when you’re forced to be someone you’re not in order to survive. W Whom Are We To Judge? Michael Igoe explores writing about others and what it does to ourselves. B Becoming Better Together: How I Help Students Magnify the Deeper Meaning of a Text As a writer and teacher, Donna Lewis Johnson sees herself and her students as literary detectives, reading texts closely in order to notice the telling details that illuminate the characters, setting, and plot moments. H How Loneliness Manifests Cija Jefferson speaks with Athena Dixon about her new book of essays, The Loneliness Files, and what it means to find connections inside and outside of writing. M Must I forget my first language to move beyond my past? Parisa Saranj reflects on abandoning Persian, her first language, to write and think exclusively in English, both as a method of embracing her life in the US and abandoning her past in Iran. T The Body as Home: Traversing Gender to Find Peace A review of Krys Malcom Belc’s The Natural Mother of the Child by Megan Reilley. E Every Woman Keeps a Flame Against the Wind An essay by Kristen Millares Young. N Neighborhood Statistics An essay by Nicholas Powers. I I Am Not in My Body An essay by Daisuke Shen. An ongoing collection of true stories. Welcome to the new home of true ! Originally the blog for Proximity , true has become a space for bi-weekly conversations around nonfiction storytelling, where you’ll find essays, writing on craft, reviews, interviews, and more. This is also a space where you can find some of Proximity ’s best essays, narrative journalism, documentary photo essays, and audio storytelling. Proximity is currently on hiatus. On Craft B Main Category Craft Bringing the Past Forward Judy Goldman speaks with Stephanie Clare Smith about her memoir Everywhere the Undrowned and why the past is never behind us. T Main Category Craft The Journalist in Me: An Annotated Interview with Putsata Reang By her own admission, Putsata Reang has an insatiable appetite for research.” T Main Category Craft The Power of Crafting Your Own Beginning: A Talk with Debut Author Suzette Mullen Suzette Mullen shares how she stepped off the straight path of her life and onto the winding one that became her memoir. Y Main Category Interview You have to do what works for you. A conversation with Sufiya Abdur-Rahman about her deeply reported and deeply personal memoir, Heir to the Crescent Moon. T Main Category Craft The UFO Idea: An Annotated Interview with Gideon Lewis-Kraus New Yorker Writer Gideon Lewis-Kraus came to write about UFOs with some reluctance. S Main Category Interview Saumya & the Mountain: One Story, Two Ways A conversation between authors Kristina Gaddy and Saumya Roy on the question at the heart of so many narrative journalists: Should we, or under what circumstances should we, include ourselves in our writing? M Main Category Interview My Middle Name was Wimberley: An Annotated Interview with Nicholas Casey Brandon Arvesen and NYT Editor Nicholas Casey discuss the essay, Finding my Father” and the process of fact-decking family stories. T Main Category Craft The Particulars of How Author Kristina Gaddy joins debut author and journalist Neda Toloui-Semnani to discuss trauma writing, the journalist’s experience with memoir, and her nonlinear exploration of family history. O Main Category Interview On Race, Secrets, & Love: An interview with E. Dolores Johnson Author Sonya Lea and debut memoirist E. Dolores Johnson discuss ’Say I’m Dead,’ a family memoir of race, secrets, and love. F Main Category Interview Finding Solace Among the Birds: A Conversation with Joshua McKerrow About Making Art from Grief Megan Reilley and Photojournalist Joshua McKerrow discuss "Today’s Birds," and the act of creating through grief. M Main Category Interview Memoir, Essay, and the Crucible of Meaning: An Interview with Joanna Eleftheriou Bruce I. Friedland and essayist Joanna Eleftheriou discuss trauma, identity, and place in the writing of ’This Way Back.’ I Main Category Interview Images Are Text: A Conversation About Comics With Miriam Libicki Comics Scholar Kevin Haworth sits down with Miriam Libicki to discuss ’Toward a Hot Jew," and her approach to creating essays in comics form. P Main Category Flotsam Poems That Bring You Joy Why do people turn to poetry in tumultuous times?” is one of the most common questions poet Maggie Smith been asked about her poem Good Bones”Why poems? Why now? ( Main Category Craft (Re)using Found Forms: The Hermit Crab Essay From the front a hermit crab looks like a hand, a red-fingered fist, curling out of a shell. This seems an appropriate metaphor for a hermit crab essay," writes essayist Randon Billings Noble. From the Pages of Proximity P Main Category Best of Proximity Portraits "The paintings in this series are meant to challenge the way we view people of color. These paintings are part of an ongoing series that also attempts to address, in a forward-thinking way, the lack of representation of African Americans on gallery walls," explains artist Jeremy Okai Davis. A Main Category Best of Proximity Abidjan Zoo: A War Story Photojournalst Michaël Zumstein stepped inside the Abidjan Zoo while the Ivory Coast was at war. This is his dispatch. M Main Category Best of Proximity Mountain Words An essay by Kayla Queen. A Main Category Best of Proximity Already We are Less Than Ever Before A lyric essay by Alison Powell, selected by Judge Hanif Adurraqib as winner of Proximity’s 2nd Personal Essay Prize. S Main Category Best of Proximity Split Down the Middle In this audio essay, Sarah P. Reynolds explores one teenager’s painful secret, and how sharing that secret became a form of activism. Split Down the Middle” is an original work produced for Proximity‘s BORDERS issue. Write for true We publish essays and writing on the craft of nonfiction in its many forms, as well as reviews, interviews, and criticism. We are especially interested in the intersection of reporting and narrative; how nonfiction is and isn’t different from other genres; how we can make true stories compelling; and explorations of highly reflective, emotional, and layered work that exposes a truth about shared experiences in an exulting and punishing world. Email us: editors@truemag.org BrowseBest of Proximity Cover Story Craft Editorial Notes Essay Flotsam In Conversation Interview Research Review Uncategorized© 2021 Truebrought to you by Proximity ’s editorial team. Theme: Felt by Pixelgrade . Search Search for: Search Begin typing your search above and press return to search. Press Esc to cancel. Close overlay...