More to the Story

Janna Marlies Maron
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More to the Story

A podcast all about creative nonfiction, telling true stories and sharing them with the world. Excerpts of true, personal stories and interviews with their authors. Hosted by Janna Marlies Maron, editor & publisher of Under the Gum Tree magazine. moretothestorypodcast.substack.com

  1. MTS 23: Self-care, community, and the Nonfiction Bootcamp with Janna Maron

    2021/07/08

    MTS 23: Self-care, community, and the Nonfiction Bootcamp with Janna Maron

    Janna Marlies Maron (she/her) is a professional editor with nearly 20 years of experience helping writers to complete their projects and produce the best work possible. Her experience includes time as a magazine editor, college professor, agency editorial director, and content director for a popular internet brand. Her life’s work began when she was a kid writing in a spiral bound notebook, and she has since turned an MA in creative writing into a successful career as an editor, publisher, and director of her own business supporting women authors writing nonfiction. In addition to founding and editing Under the Gum Tree, she‘s the host of More to the Story, a podcast all about creative nonfiction, as well as private online community for nonfiction writers also called More to the Story. In the episode I talk about:  What’s been happening in the past three years, since the last season of More to the StoryThe importance of stepping back and taking a break when necessarySelf-care as an essential component of work and lifeShowing up for the people you care aboutMy new business working with nonfiction authorsMore to the Story, my private community for nonfiction authors. Find more info at jannamarlies.com/communityNonfiction Bootcamp, the 9-month coaching and editing program designed to help nonfiction authors finish a complete draft of their book manuscript. Find more info at jannamarlies.com/nonfictionbootcampThe best way to stay in touch with  me is to subscribe to my email list at jannamarlies.comThanks so much for tuning in to this season of the More to the Story podcast! Visit us online at moretothestorypodcast.com and visit Under the Gum Tree at underthegumtree.com. Follow Under the Gum Tree Twitter and Instagram @undergumtree. Follow me on Twitter @justjanna and @jannamarlies on Instagram.  This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit moretothestorypodcast.substack.com

    16 分钟
  2. MTS 22: Tinkering & braiding the threads of science and literature with Nicole Walker

    2021/07/01

    MTS 22: Tinkering & braiding the threads of science and literature with Nicole Walker

    Nicole Walker is the author of Processed Meats: Essays on Food, Flesh and Navigating Disaster (2021) Sustainability: A Love Story (2018) and the collaborative collection The After-Normal: Brief, Alphabetical Essays on a Changing Planet (2019). She has previously published the books Where the Tiny Things Are (2017), Egg (2017), Micrograms (2016), Quench Your Thirst with Salt (2013), and This Noisy Egg (2010). She edited for Bloomsbury the essay collections Science of Story (2019) with Sean Prentiss and Bending Genre: Essays on Creative Nonfiction (2013) with Margot Singer. She is the co-president of NonfictioNOW and is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts award and a noted author in Best American Essays. Her work has been most recently published in the New York Times, Longreads, and Manifest-Station. She teaches at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona. You can find her website at nikwalk.com. In the episode we talk about:  Nonfiction feeling particularly apt for the time that  we’re living inStar Trek and approximating an “extra inch of brain stuff” by examining things in writingThe connecting point of imagination, drawing threads between two ideas as a way to enter braided essaysThe collaborative nature of writing, and writing & editing as a paired jobThe “bird’s eye” view of an editor and how the work of a good editor can elevate writingThe idea that climate justice is racial justiceThe human capacity to care more about each other than personal freedomsScience as a lens to examine the worldTinkering as a process crossing over from science to writingNicole’s current project examining the privilege and trauma of moving, and how it ties into climate changeThe constant feeling that we should be doing moreFind Nicole online at nikwalk.com / Twitter & FacebookRead stories people shared during the pandemic as part of the How We Are project at howweare.orgVisit us online at moretothestorypodcast.com and visit Under the Gum Tree at underthegumtree.com. Follow Under the Gum Tree Twitter and Instagram @undergumtree. Follow me on Twitter @justjanna and @jannamarlies on Instagram.  If you’re looking for a place to find more support with writing your true personal story, join the More To The Story community! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit moretothestorypodcast.substack.com

    46 分钟
  3. MTS 21: Intersectionality through essays, memoir, and poetry with Kristie Robin Johnson

    2021/06/24

    MTS 21: Intersectionality through essays, memoir, and poetry with Kristie Robin Johnson

    Kristie Robin Johnson is an educator, essayist, and poet from Augusta, Georgia. She is the current Chair of the Department of Humanities at Georgia Military College’s Augusta campus where she is an Assistant Professor of English. A graduate of the MFA Creative Writing program at Georgia College and State University, Kristie’s writing has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has received other awards and recognition, including an AWP Intro to Journals award, the 2020 Porter Fleming Prize for Nonfiction, and the 2021 Page Prize for Nonfiction from The Pinch Literary Journal. Her work has been published in numerous literary magazines, journals, and anthologies. Her first book, High Cotton, was released in 2020 by Raised Voice Press. In the episode we talk about:  Hip hop as Kristie’s first introduction to literatureWriting essays as a function of journaling, being a young mother, and writing letters to her unborn childThe transition from being a poet to being an essayistMaya Angelo, Harlem Renaissance writers, and imagining her first poems as if Tupac or Biggie and Langston Hughes had a babyBilly Collins’s theory that every poet has 200 bad poems that they have to get outDetermining whether a piece is an essay or a poemWriting about the same things over and over as a writer of color, in reference to the lynching of Ahmaud Arbery and his murder being particularly difficult because of not being able to gather during COVIDThe impact that reading Black male authors had on her young sonAddressing race with kids and how parents make the choice of when, where, and how to talk about itHow the media has changed the frequency at which we see racial injusticeKristie’s strongest writing coming out of examining the intersections of life as a woman, a Black person, a single mom, and a returning college studentThe benefits of publishing with a small pressFind Kristie online at kristierobinjohnson.comKristie’s essay collection High Cotton is available on raisedvoicepress.com and everywhere books are soldVisit us online at moretothestorypodcast.com and visit Under the Gum Tree at underthegumtree.com. Follow Under the Gum Tree Twitter and Instagram @undergumtree. Follow me on Twitter @justjanna and @jannamarlies on Instagram.  If you’re looking for a place to find more support with writing your true personal story, join the More To The Story community! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit moretothestorypodcast.substack.com

    39 分钟
  4. MTS 20: Reinventing the addiction memoir & writing as recovery with Tim Hillegonds

    2021/06/17

    MTS 20: Reinventing the addiction memoir & writing as recovery with Tim Hillegonds

    Timothy J. Hillegonds is the author of The Distance Between (Nebraska, 2019), a finalist for the 2020 Chicago Writers Association Book of the Year Award. A Pushcart Prize nominee, Tim's work has appeared in The Guardian, the Chicago Tribune, Salon, The Daily Beast, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Rumpus, Assay, Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction, River Teeth, Baltimore Review, Brevity, Under the Gum Tree, Hippocampus Magazine, The Fourth River, Midway Journal, RHINO, Bluestem Magazine, r.k.v.r.y. quarterly, and others. In 2019, Tim was named by the Guild Literary Complex as one of their thirty "Writers to Watch,” and he currently serves as a contributing editor for Slag Glass City, a digital journal of the urban essay arts. In the episode we talk about:  The practice of writing in rehab at the beginning of a serious writing life and as an integral part of healingComing to nonfiction as a result of traumaGetting an undergrad degree at age 30Recovery as never being singular, we're constantly recovering from one thing or anotherNever writing the same book twice and giving yourself permission to try something differentCrafting a persona in creative nonfictionTruth vs subjectivity in nonfiction, honesty in recoveryUsing the second-person perspective in nonfictionThe challenges of an addiction memoir and a story of abuse from the perpetrator’s point of viewThe benefits of publishing with a university pressWriting visceral scenes of using after being soberThe moral inventory of self and wrestling with privilege working on his behalfHow to reinvent a story like an addiction that is, let’s be honest, so played outWriters Hope Edelman, Michele Morano , and  Sheryl St. Germain Find Tim online at timhillegonds.com.Visit us online at moretothestorypodcast.com and visit Under the Gum Tree at underthegumtree.com. Follow Under the Gum Tree Twitter and Instagram @undergumtree. Follow me on Twitter @justjanna and @jannamarlies on Instagram.  If you’re looking for a place to find more support with writing your true personal story, join the More To The Story community! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit moretothestorypodcast.substack.com

    1 小时 3 分钟
  5. MTS 19: Diary entries becoming essays & the short form with Kelly Fig Smith

    2021/06/10

    MTS 19: Diary entries becoming essays & the short form with Kelly Fig Smith

    Kelly is an award-winning essayist and a Pushcart nominee. She has an MFA in nonfiction from Lesley University. Her essay “Do No Harm” was awarded the $1000 Best Essay Prize and appeared in Creative Nonfiction’s Issue #55, The Memoir Issue, Spring 2015. Her essay, "Paper Moon" was shortlisted for The Pinch's 2017 Literary Award. Kelly enjoys the quiet life of rural Ohio. When she's not chasing children around the house, she can usually be found corn field watching from beneath an apple tree in her backyard. Kelly is currently seeking representation for her first book a collection of essays.  In the episode we talk about:  Grief journals and turning them into essaysNeeding a place to figure out what an experience meansGiving readers the benefit of the doubt, and essays that are a slow burnThe short form of flash and “micro” writingLoss and learning to love things without consuming or owning themUsing care in the things we create vs. self-imposed deadlines or goalsKelly’s piece "Winter Soliloquy" in HippocampusConnect with Kelly on Twitter @WhaleLettersVisit us online at moretothestorypodcast.com and visit Under the Gum Tree at underthegumtree.com. Follow Under the Gum Tree Twitter and Instagram @undergumtree. Follow me on Twitter @justjanna and @jannamarlies on Instagram.  If you’re looking for a place to find more support with writing your true personal story, join the More To The Story community! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit moretothestorypodcast.substack.com

    28 分钟
  6. MTS 18: Heartbreak, heart devices, and conflict minerals with Kati Standefer

    2021/06/03

    MTS 18: Heartbreak, heart devices, and conflict minerals with Kati Standefer

    In this episode I talk with writer Katherine Standefer. Katherine's debut book, Lightning Flowers, published November 2020 from Little Brown, was shortlisted for the 2018 J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Prize from Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. Her work was featured in The Best American Essays 2016, won the 2015 Iowa Review Award in Nonfiction, and most recently appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review, Kenyon Review Online, New England Review, Crazyhorse, Quarterly West, and The Normal School. She was a Fall 2018 Logan Nonfiction Fellow at The Carey Institute for Global Good, and earned her MFA in Creative Nonfiction at the University of Arizona. As a creative entrepreneur, she teaches intimate, electric writing classes that help people tell their stories about sexuality, illness, and trauma. She is also a professor in Ashland University's Low-Residency MFA. In the episode we talk about:  Heartbreak and conflict mineralsIllness as a driver force for writing nonfictionOwning a story vs. disguising it in thinly veiled fictionThe need for narrative distance to craft nonfictionProcessing illness through writingResearch as a means of survival The personal is enough, a personal story well told can change livesKati’s book, Lighting Flowers, story of a complicated relationship with her ICD, the American healthcare system, and the global supply chain.Book forthcoming March 2020 - Nov 2020, Little BrownIG / Twitter: @girlmakesfire / FB: writewithkatistandefer / katherinestandefer.comVisit us online at moretothestorypodcast.com and visit Under the Gum Tree at underthegumtree.com. Follow Under the Gum Tree Twitter and Instagram @undergumtree. Follow me on Twitter @justjanna and @jannamarlies on Instagram.  If you're looking for a place to find more support with writing your true personal story, join the More To The Story community! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit moretothestorypodcast.substack.com

    42 分钟
  7. MTS 17: Parenthood and the confluence of son & father with James Chesbro

    2021/05/27

    MTS 17: Parenthood and the confluence of son & father with James Chesbro

    In this episode, I talk with writer James M. Chesbro. James is the author of A Lion in the Snow: Essays on a Father’s Journey Home. His work has appeared in The Writer’s Chronicle, America, The Washington Post, The Millions, Essay Daily, and The Huffington Post. Essays from A Lion in the Snow were chosen as notable selections in The Best American Essays series 2012, 2014, 2015, 2017, and 2018, as well as The Best American Sports Writing 2014. In the episode we talk about:  Making sense of things in a private journalMourning the loss of a parent while trying to keep children alive at the same timeThe confluence of the role of son and father, feeling like a kid foreverHow becoming a father allowed him to learn about and understand his own father who passed away before he had kidsHow the memories that we  attach to objects allow them to take on a life of their ownJamie's book, A Lion in the Snow, Essays on a Father’s Journey Home compiling an essay collectionFinishing a project, even when it takes almost a decade, has to be an obsessionThe importance of books about men for men and exploring emotions as menjamesmchesbro.com / jamie_chesbro on Twitter & InstagramVisit us online at moretothestorypodcast.com and visit Under the Gum Tree at underthegumtree.com. Follow Under the Gum Tree Twitter and Instagram @undergumtree. Follow me on Twitter @justjanna and @jannamarlies on Instagram.  If you're looking for a place to find more support with writing your true personal story, join the More To The Story community! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit moretothestorypodcast.substack.com

    29 分钟
  8. MTS 16: The Soundtrack of a neighborhood & processing grief with Tori Weston

    2021/05/20

    MTS 16: The Soundtrack of a neighborhood & processing grief with Tori Weston

    In this episode I talk with Tori Weston, creative writer and visual artist. Tori received a BFA in Writing and Literature and an MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College. While working for the Professional Studies department and finishing her last semester of graduate school, she wrote a proposal for a creative writing high school program. Fifteen years later, she is now the Assistant Director of Pre-College Programs at Emerson College. When not running the pre-college program, she balances her professional life with her creative life as both a writer and artist. Her writing has appeared in What's Up Magazine, Providence Journal-Bulletin, Sleet Magazine, and Under the Gum Tree. She has also been a featured storyteller in the Risk! Live show, podcast, and book. Her artwork has been shown at the Somerville Museum, Diesel Cafe, and Bloc 11 Cafe.  In the episode we talk about:  Her 6th grad teacher’s quirky essay assignmentsTori's love of grammar & being rewarded for memorizing poems with partiesThe 1991 Doors movie inspiring a generation of creatives writing bad poetryThe recurring theme of teachers taking interest, encouraging her to pursue writingMoving to nonfiction as a result of telling personal storiesThemes unifying multiple short-short piecesThe richness of growing up in a cultural diverse neighborhoodTori’s memoir-in-progress about her whopping 38 roommate situationsCheck out her work at: ToriWestonWriterArtist.com Visit us online at moretothestorypodcast.com and visit Under the Gum Tree at underthegumtree.com. Follow Under the Gum Tree Twitter and Instagram @undergumtree. Follow me on Twitter @justjanna and @jannamarlies on Instagram.  If you're looking for a place to find more support with writing your true personal story, join the More To The Story community! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit moretothestorypodcast.substack.com

    36 分钟
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A podcast all about creative nonfiction, telling true stories and sharing them with the world. Excerpts of true, personal stories and interviews with their authors. Hosted by Janna Marlies Maron, editor & publisher of Under the Gum Tree magazine. moretothestorypodcast.substack.com

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  • 创作者
    Janna Marlies Maron
  • 活跃年份
    2016年 - 2021年
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    24
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    儿童适宜
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    © Janna Marlies Maron
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    More to the Story

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