In Memoriam, Norman Sims

The field of literary journalism studies lost a giant this year The field of literary journalism studies lost a giant on Sunday, May 15, 2022.  Norman Sims (1948-2022), a professor emeritus of journalism at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst is widely acknowledged as the founder of the field. His three edited volumes as well as…

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Jonathan D. Fitzgerald

CfP: The Art of Fact in Science and Nature Writing Session, IALJS at AEJMC 2023

Call for Panel Participants Sessions Organized by the International Association for Literary Journalism Studies To Be Held at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication August 7–10, 2023 Washington, D.C., USA The Art of Fact in Science and Nature Writing In the age of COVID-19 and climate change, science…

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Kate McQueen

Literary Journalism in Twentieth Century Turkey

Literary journalism in twentieth century Turkey can be divided into two periods: pre-1950, when the first reportages were published, and post-1950. After 1950, examples of direct literary journalism began to proliferate. There are about fifteen direct literary journalism examples in this century ranging in topic from adventure to torturing. Some of these studies are: Ben…

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Ömer Özer

Hybrid, Funny, Dramatic and Back Together after Three Years

IALJS-16 was a conference like no other I feel I stand firmly on the safe side of truth when I state that the sixteenth conference of the International Association of Literary Journalism Studies (IALJS) was like none of the previous ones.  First, it was devilishly difficult to organize because the COVID, travel, economic and political…

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Roberto Herrscher

2022 IALJS Annual Business Meeting Minutes

Minutes from meeting held at IALJS-16 in Santiago, Chile on 13 May 2022 President Rob Alexander called the 2022 annual business meeting of the International Association for Literary Journalism Studies to order at 5:05 p.m.  It was moved and seconded to approve the minutes from the 2021 IALJS annual meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark, held remotely…

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Lisa A. Phillips

Exploring the Literary Journalism of the Interwar Years in France, Germany, and England

An xploration of how historical trends in narrative literary journalism in France, Germany, the U.S. and England of the interwar years reshaped the media landscape

John S. Bak

The Lettered City

How the Crónicas of Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora helped shape New Spain  *Editor’s note: This article is from our archives. It originally appeared in Literary Journalism vol. 14, no. 2 (2020).  In Latin America, the crónica is an historical matter. Everything starts with the Crónicas de Indias, a group of texts written by conquerors, soldiers and…

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Sac-Nicté Calderón

The Footprints in the Text

How do we keep an eye on process behind the product of literary journalism? I should start by acknowledging that I came to literary journalism studies per se (hereafter LJS) through something of a side-door:  from American Studies, where I had been most recently writing about police power. And aside from an unabashedly partisan stint…

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Chris Wilson

Finding a New Normal

Technology and grit are the keys to pandemic-era narrative nonfiction I am a literary journalist, a narrative nonfiction writer. But I am also, for want of a better term, a “cultural anthropologist without portfolio.” (The “portfolio” I am without is a university degree in that subject.) What I do, what I have done for my…

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Lauren Kessler

The Domestication of Disaster

A writer reflects on the challenges of covering environmental catastrophe in longform *Editor’s note: This article is from our archives. It originally appeared in Literary Journalism vol. 15, no. 1 (2021).  When my book Hazelwood came out in June last year, it was born into a world much-changed from the one it had been conceived…

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Tom Doig

New Insights on Orwell as a Literary Journalist

George Orwell is one of the most researched authors on the planet. But immerse yourself in the man’s life and writings and new insights emerge. Since becoming a sub-editor on my local newspaper in Nottingham in 1970, and being inspired by George Orwell, the wonderfully creative and radical, committed journalist, I had always wanted to…

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Richard Lance Keeble

Introducing Our 2022 Conference Host: Universidad Alberto Hurtado

Chile has a rich history of high education. Universidad de Chile and Universidad Católica are among the most prestigious institutions in the continent. But there is a wide and high-quality offer, both in regional state universities and private ones, many of which are in the hands of Catholic denominations. Such is the case of our…

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