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2008 Mayborn Writer's Winning Entries
Personal Essay
1st place: Victor Epstein for “Lady in the Hall”
2nd place: Aimee Berger for “Family Stories”
3rd place: Kay Hubbard for “Through the Glass, Darkly”
Research/Reporting Article
1st place: David Cicoletti for “Standing at Crossroads Lumber”
2nd place: Vance Gonzales for “A Wrinkled Suit”
3rd place: Denise Short for “Horseplay”
Article/Essay Runners-Up
Andrew Rogers for “The Decision”
Alexandra Bonifield for “River of Ponies”
Stanley Tollett for “My Shadows”
Audrie Palmer for “Limp”
Manuscript
1st place: Dan Burns for “Wonderful Son”
2nd place: Si Dunn for “Dark Signals”
3rd place: Noor Elashi for “Displaced”
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Contact Us
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The Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Writers Conference of the Southwest, presented by the University of North Texas Mayborn Graduate School of Journalism, provides a forum for journalists, writers, readers, students, educators and the general public to listen to, be inspired by and practice their craft at the highest possible level.
We seek to enhance the quality of nonfiction writing, encourage innovation, and create a community of factual storytellers who maintain an unflinching faith in the narrative craft. Each year, we gather some of the most talented storytellers in the country to explore the aesthetic elements of nonfiction narrative prosewriting that elevate the reading experience without ever compromising factual truth.
As a result, "The Mayborn Conference has very quickly risen to preeminence among the nation's literary conferences, says Hampton Sides, author of Blood and Thunder. Texas Monthly contends "The Mayborn Conference has street cred among literati and a reputation for hot-button banter."
The 2008 conference brought some of the most renowned literary nonfiction authors to North Texas, including keynote speaker N. Scott Momaday, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Bob Shacochis, an editor at large for Outside magazine and author of The Immaculate Invasion, and Candice Millard, a former writer for National Geographic and author or River of Doubt.
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