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Fruitland
The premiere issue of True Story tells the story of Donnie and Joe Emerson, two brothers from Fruitland, WA, an isolated community outside of Spokane, who as teenagers in the late 1970s self-recorded an album in a log-cabin studio their father built for them on the family farm.True Story, Issue #01
Plume: An Investigation
A former environmental investigator applies her forensic skills to a family mystery. What happens to us when we are exposed to toxicity, both literally and figuratively?True Story, Issue #34
Not Your Ordinary Experience of Desire
A poignant postmortem of a four-year relationship, told in alternating voices, becomes a catalog of unmet needs and wants … and a path to a hopeful future.True Story, Issue #35
My Climate Change
The award-winning environmental writer on how he learned to stop worrying and accept climate changeIssue 58
Interview with Michael Stephens
Michael Stephens’ essay about his old writing teacher, Seymour Krim, developed from a series of notes he was making about two separate topics: Seymour Krim, and the genre of creative nonfiction.Issue 02
Another interview with Donald Morrill
While in China, poet Donald Morrill kept travel journals, “not really certain what I was going to do with them,” he says. He thought he would use them to write poems, and later did.Issue 02
The Writing Zone: An interview with Christopher Buckley
What pleases Christopher Buckley most about “Work-Ups” is that he was able to capture the feeling of goodwill that baseball brought to him and his friends during the 1950s.Issue 02
Listening for a Voice: interview with Margaret Gibson
Margaret Gibson wrote her essay, “Thou Shalt Not Kill,” to “record a world that is vanishing,” she says. She wrote the memoir, in which she recalls learning about life and death in her childhood rural home, to hear her own voice-a voice that she says is diminishing daily under the onslaught of commercialism.Issue 02
Interview with Donald Morrill
An interview with Donald Morrill, writer of "I Give Up Smiling"Issue 02
Interview with Judith Kitchen
As publisher of State Street Press-which produces a well-known poetry-chapbook series-and a literary critic whose bi-annual reviews of new poetry appear in the Georgia Review, poet Kitchen brings to creative nonfiction her experience with poetic stanzas, which she says allows her to shift quickly from one direction to another.Issue 02
