Podcast
The Creative Nonfiction Podcast with Brendan O'Meara
The Creative Nonfiction Podcast with Brendan O'Meara is a weekly podcast that showcases leaders in narrative journalism, essay, memoir, documentary film, radio and podcasts about the art and craft of telling true stories. Follow the show @creativenonfictionpodcast on Instagram and visit patreon.com/cnfpod to support!
- Episodes
- 54
- Releases
- Every two weeks
- Typical length
- 1 hr 5 min
- On air since
- 2020
- Latest episode
- 3 years ago
Episodes
54 episodes, newest first
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1 hr 3 min
Episode 360: Elizabeth Gonzalez James
Episode 360
Show notes
Elizabeth Gonzalez James is a novelist and essayist whose chapbook Five Conversations About Peter Sellers (Texas Review Press) puts the creative in creative nonfiction.
Social: @CNFPod
Support: http://Patreon.com/cnfpod
Show Notes: http://brendanomeara.com
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1 hr 8 min
Episode 358: Erica J. Berry
Episode 358
Show notes
Erica J. Berry (@ericajberry) is back, this time to talk about her book Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear (Flatiron Books).
Social: @CNFPod
Support: http://Patreon.com/cnfpod
Show notes/newsletter: http://brendanomeara.com
Beer discount: http://athleticbrewing.com, enter BRENDANO20 at checkout for a discount.
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1 hr 14 min
Episode 355: Flinder Boyd
Episode 355
Show notes
Flinder Boyd (@FlinderBoyd) is a freelance journalist whose piece "20 Minutes in Rucker Park" turns ten this year. He's also a filmmaker and a former professional basketball player.
Show notes/newsletter: http://brendanomeara.com
Social: @CNFPod
Support: http://Patreon.com/cnfpod
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1 hr 5 min
Episode 354: Nile Cappello
Episode 354
Show notes
Nile Cappello (@liketheriver_) returns to talk about her Atavist piece for Feb. 2023.
Social: @CNFPod
Show notes/Newsletter: http://brendanomeara.com
Support: http://Patreon.com/cnfpod
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1 hr 13 min
Episode 353: Isaac Fitzgerald
Episode 353
Show notes
Isaac Fitzgerald is the author of Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confession (Bloomsbury) and a frequent contributor to The Today Show.
Support: http://Patreon.com/cnfpod
Social: @CNFPod
Show notes/newsletter: http://brendanomeara.com
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1 hr 6 min
Episode 350: Damon Brown
Show notes
Damon Brown is the author of many books including Career Remix and Build from Now, and a content creator at youtube.com/@browndamon and career coach.
Social: @CNFPod
Support: http://Patreon.com/cnfpod
Show notes/newsletter: http://brendanomeara.com
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1 hr 17 min
Episode 348: Carl Hoffman
Episode 348
Show notes
Carl Hoffman (@lunaticcarl on Twitter, @carlhoffmanstories on IG) is the author of five books, inclucing Liar's Circus: A Strange and Terrifying Journey into the Upside-Down World of Trump's MAGA Rallies (Custom House).
Social: @CNFPod
Support: http://patreon.com/cnfpod
Show notes/newsletter: http://brendanomeara.com
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57 min
Episode 347: Emily Fox Kaplan
Episode 347
Show notes
Emily Fox Kaplan is a freelance journalist and she's featured in Issue 8 of Pipewrench Magazine for her piece "Searching for Zarahemla."
Show notes/newsletter: http://brendanomeara.com
Social: @CNFPod
Support: http://patreon.com/cnfpod
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1 hr 8 min
Episode 344: Rachel Dickinson
Episode 344
Show notes
Rachel Dickinson is the author The Loneliest Places: Loss, Grief, and the Long Journey Home (Three Hills Press).
Support: Patreon.com/cnfpod
Newsletter: brendanomeara.com
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1 hr 15 min
Episode 336: Cassidy Randall
Episode 336
Show notes
Cassidy Randall (@cassidyjrandall) is a freelance writer based out of Montana and she is October's featured Atavist writer.
Social: @CNFPod
Support: http://patreon.com/cnfpod
Show notes/newsletter: http://brendanomeara.com
Beer Discount!: athleticbrewing.com, promo code BRENDANO20
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1 hr 5 min
Episode 332: David Maraniss
Show notes
David Maraniss is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the author of several biographies, his latest being Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe.
Support: http://patreon.com/cnfpod
Social: @CNFPod
Show notes/newsletter: http://brendanomeara.com
Beer Discount: http://athleticbrewing.com, code BRENDANO20
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55 min
Episode 330: Kim H. Cross
Episode 330
Show notes
Kim H. Cross is a freelance writer, an instructor, a mountain bike head coach and author of The Stahl House.
Social: @CNFPod
Show notes/newsletter: http://brendanomeara.com
Support: http://patreon.com/cnfpod
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1 hr 4 min
Episode 316: Chip Scanlan
Episode 316
Show notes
Chip Scanlan returns to talk about his new book 33 Ways to Not Screw Up Your Journalism. Support: http://patreon.com/cnfpod
Sponsor: Athletic Greens
Social: @CNFPod
Newsletter: http://brendanomeara.com
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1 hr 29 min
Episode 313: Katia Savchuk
Episode 313
Show notes
Katia Savchuk (@katiasav) is a freelancer journalist and wrote an incredible piece for The Atavist Magazine. We talk to her as well as editor-in-chief Seyward Darby.
Social: @CNFPod
Support: http://patreon.com/cnfpod
Show notes/newsletter: http://brendanomeara.com
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1 hr 11 min
Episode 306: Dan Schwartz
Show notes
Dan Schwartz (@danjschwartz) is a freelance investigative journalist based out of Colorado. He's got a new piece in the Atlantic about climate change and how local weathermen are the most trusted people to sound the alarm about it.
Social: @CNFPod
Support: http://patreon.com/cnfpod
Show notes and newsletter: http://brendanomeara.com
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52 min
Episode 303: Damon Brown
Episode 303
Show notes
Get the gig you want with the skills you've got, that's the subtitle of Damon Brown's new book, Career Remix. It's published by Sterling.
Social: CNFPod
Show notes: http://brendanomeara.com
Support: http://patreon.com/cnfpod
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1 hr
Episode 301: Debbie Millman
Episode 301
Show notes
Debbie Millman (@debbiemillman) is the host of the incredible Design Matters podcast and the author of Why Design Matters: Conversations with the World's Most Creative People (Porchlight Books, 2022).
Social: @CNFPod
Support: http://patreon.com/cnfpod
Sponsor: West Virginia Wesleyan College's MFA in Creative Writing
Show notes/Newsletter: http://brendanomeara.com
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1 hr 12 min
Episode 296: Bradford Pearson on Reporting, Ambition, and 'The Eagles of Heart Mountain'
Show notes
Bradford Pearson (@bradfordpearson) is a journalist, editor, and author of The Eagles of Heart Mountain: A True Story Of Football, Incarceration, and Resistance in World War II America.
Sponsor: West Virginia Wesleyan College's MFA in Creative Writing
Social Media @CNFPod
Show notes and newsletter: http://brendanomeara.com
Support?: http://patreon.com/cnfpod
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1 hr
Episode 293: The 'Supremely Tiny Acts' of Sonya Huber
Episode 293
Show notes
Sonya Huber (@sonyahuber) is the author of the memoir Supremely Tiny Acts: A Memoir of a Day (Mad Creek Books).
Show notes: http://brendanomeara.com
Support: http://patreon.com/cnfpod
Social Media: @CNFPod
Sponsor: West Virginia Wesleyan College's MFA in Creative Writing
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1 hr 10 min
Episode 291: 'Simple is the Way to Go' with Mirin Fader
Episode 291
Show notes
Mirin Fader (@mirinfader) is a senior staff writer for The Ringer and the author of Giannis: The Improbable Rise of an MVP.
She was twice featured as a notable selection in the Year's Best Sports Writing for her piece on Tyler Skaggs and Gigi Bryant.
This episode is dedicated to Kim H. Cross.
Sponsor: West Virginia Wesleyan College's MFA in Creative Writing
Support: Patreon.com/cnf
Social Media: @CNFPod
Show notes: http://brendanomeara.com
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