Enhancing the quality of nonfiction writing, encouraging innovation, creating a community of writers - that's what the Mayborn Literary NonFiction Writers Conference of the Southwest is all about. Our mission, in short, is to transform craftsmen into artists. It's our belief that if we share the same creed, believe in the same cause and maintain an unflinching faith in the narrative craft, we can create a culture of storytelling in the Southwest that will endure and flourish.

– George Getschow, Mayborn mentor

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Featuring artwork by Martha Stroud

	Foreword by George Getschow
	Introduction by Ken Wells
	The Writers
	Heirloom Tomatoes by Aimee Berger
	River of Ponies by Alexandra Bonifield
	Standing at Crossroads Lumber by David Cicoletti
	Lady in the Hall by Victor Epstein
	A Winkled Suit by Vance Gonzales
	Through the Glass, Darkly by Kay Hubbard
	Limp by Audrie Palmer
	The Decision by Andrew K. Rogers
	Horseplay by Denise Short
	My Shadows by Stanley Tollet