IALJS at AEJMC in Virtual New Orleans

For the second consecutive year, IALJS sessions at the annual AEJMC meeting were held virtually. Originally scheduled for New Orleans, the two online sessions on August 4 and August 6 were dedicated to the theme of “Activist Narrative Journalism: Aesthetics and Politics of Alternative Media.” The 2021 sessions were the first assembled by the new…

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David O. Dowling

Exploring Literary Journalism Coverage of Inequality and Social Protest: Report on the Transnational Literary Journalism Summer School, May 2021

One milestone of the three-year Franco-Chilean CRONICA project, which was planned for 2020 but postponed a year and presented entirely online, was the first Transnational Literary Journalism Summer School, an École d’été that looked to promote graduate student research into comparative literary journalism. Held in Nancy at the end of May, just following IALJS 15…

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John S. Bak

IALJS Annual Business Meeting Minutes

INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR LITERARY JOURNALISM STUDIES ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING Minutes from meeting held at IALJS-15 via Zoom on 21 May 2021. 19.00 – 20.00 Copenhagen Time (UTC +2) First Vice President Rob Alexander called the 2021 annual business meeting of the International Association for Literary Journalism Studies to order at 19.00. He was chairing the…

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Lisa A. Phillips

Convening in the Time of Covid: Greetings from Copenhagen

A Report on the 2021 IALJS Annual Convention The pandemic set the agenda for the IALJS-15 in Copenhagen, first postponed a full year and finally simply not making it physically to the host city. Online, however, it brought together a record total of 114 attendees from 25 countries. According to records kept by treasurer Bill…

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Bringing Narrative Journalists into the Classroom with “Gangrey: The Podcast”

In the fall of 2012, I was working on a virtual roundtable discussion for the literary magazine Creative Nonfiction focused on how some journalism — narrative specifically — should be considered a form of creative writing. The panel consisted of Ben Montgomery, an enterprise reporter for the Tampa Bay Times and founder of the website…

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Matt Tullis

CFP: The Sixteenth International Conference for Literary Journalism Studies

“Literary Journalism and Justice” The Sixteenth International Conference for Literary Journalism Studies (IALJS-16) Universidad Alberto Hurtado Facultad de Ciencias Sociales | Departamento de Periodismo Santiago, Chile 12-14 May 2022 The International Association for Literary Journalism Studies invites submissions of original research papers, abstracts for research in progress and proposals for panels on Literary Journalism for…

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“To Your Health:” This Year’s Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference Explores the Healing Power of Narrative

What began as a conversation over lunch more than 17 years ago has now become one of the nation’s premier annual gatherings of writers, journalists, authors and storytellers: The Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference. George Getschow, retired Writer-in-Residence and Principal Lecturer at the Mayborn School of Journalism, was chatting casually with Bob Mong, now retired editor…

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Jim Dale

CFP: Special Issue of Women’s Studies: an interdisciplinary journal

Special Issue of Women’s Studies: an interdisciplinary journal “Women Confronting Political Bias in Spain” This special issue of Women’s Studies: an interdisciplinary journal invites submissions that address how women in contemporary Spain challenge the political system and claim space in the public sphere. We are especially interested in work that questions traditional neoliberal narratives of the Transition…

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President’s Column. Literary Journalism Goes Digital

One of the true marvels of the IALJS has always been the publication you’re now reading — Literary Journalism. Since its first issue in Summer 2007, the IALJS newsletter has arrived regularly and without fanfare in members’ inboxes, with an email message whose cordial and unassuming tone has belied the remarkable content of this publication. …

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Rob Alexander

CFP: Just Sentences: Literary Journalism Goes Inside Prison 

Call for Papers Sept. 5, 2021 Prison has been written about – both inside and outside prison walls – since time immemorial. Yet writing about prison is rarely considered in academic studies of media history. This new text aims to fill that gap with a collection of papers by international scholars. It will draw from…

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