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Hear-Tell: a podcast about telling true stories from the Low-Residency MFA in Narrative Nonfiction program at the University of Georgia. Visit bit.ly/heartellpodcast for more.
heartell hosts Hear-Tell, a arts show with 32 episodes published.
In this episode of Hear Tell, Diana Keough talks with author and University of Georgia MFA Distinguished Professor of Practice John T. Edge about his new memoir, House of Smoke. Known for helping shape the national conve
What happens when a journalist known for telling other people’s stories turns the spotlight on her own? In this episode of Hear Tell, host Laurie Hertzel sits down with Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author Anne H
This week on Hear-Tell, host Diana Keough sits down with journalist and CNN International supervising producer Sam Bresnahan to discuss her powerful new book, In Blood, Flowers Bloom: A World War II Story of Valor and Fo
In this episode of Hear-tell, Pat Thomas—MFA Distinguished Professor of Practice at the University of Georgia—joins award-winning author Jessica Handler to talk about Pat’s essay for The Bitter Southerner, “The Answer Is
In this episode of Hear-Tell, Martin Padgett illuminates the complicated, very human life of Michael Hardwick—the Atlanta man at the center of Bowers v. Hardwick (1986), the Supreme Court decision that upheld state sodom
In this episode of Hear-Tell, Rosalind Bentley—distinguished professor of practice in the University of Georgia’s MFA Narrative Nonfiction program—sits down with recent MFA graduate and freelance journalist Ryan Atkinson
In this episode, Moni Basu, the director of the University of Georgia’s MFA Narrative Nonfiction program, talks with journalist and author Kim Cross. Kim spent many formative years in the South, swimming in catfish ponds
In this episode, John T. Edge, a distinguished professor of practice in the University of Georgia’s MFA Narrative Nonfiction program, talks with Tommy Tomlinson about his latest book, “Dogland: Passion, Glory and Lots of
In this episode, we talk to Ashley Fantz about her transition from an senior investigative reporter at CNN to writer, reporter and host of two hit podcasts. Ashley graduated with her MFA from UGA in 2024 and has more tha
In this episode, celebrity ghost writer Nick Chiles discusses the process of writing in someone else’s voice. Nick, who graduated from UGA with his MFA in 2022, has won nearly 20 major journalism awards, including a 1992
In this episode, Laurie Hertzel, a distinguished professor of practice in the University of Georgia’s MFA Narrative Nonfiction program, interviewed Emily Strasser about her book, “Half-Life of a Secret: Reckoning With a
In this episode, Lookout Books editor and writing professor KaToya Ellis Fleming (MFA '18) reflects on the work of editing the award-winning anthology Bigger Than Bravery: Black Resilience and Reclamation in a Time of Pa
In this episode, renowned speaker, nationally acclaimed educator and former debate coach at Harvard University, Brandon P. Fleming discusses his memoir, “MisEducated,” (Hachette, 2021). Brandon, who earned his MFA in 202
In this episode, poet, educator and environmental writer James Murdock (MFA ‘21) discusses how using poetry, place and the natural world around him informed the reporting and writing of “Orange is the New Peach.” The pie
Moni Basu reads her story, "In Search of Spirits in Cassadaga," originally published in Flamingo Magazine. Basu, a member of the Low-Residency MFA in Narrative Nonfiction faculty, travels to the quiet Floridian community
In this episode, Shannon McCaffrey (MFA ‘23) and Distinguished Professor of practice Jan Winburn discuss the challenges Shannon ran into while reporting and writing, “Sanctuary,” the love story between a woman named Caro
In this episode, Distinguished Professor of practice John T. Edge interviews author Paul Kix about his latest book You Have to Be Prepared To Die Before You Can Begin to Live, which chronicles 10 critical weeks of the Ci
Mississippi writer and poet Beth Ann Fennelly, author of the genre-bending Heating and Cooling, spoke at the nonfiction program’s residency in January 2023. She asked students to explore the art of micro-memoir. "What sh
Martin Padgett reads an essay titled “Underneath the Sweet Gum Tree,” originally published by the Oxford American, and adapted from his book, “A Night at the Sweet Gum Head: Drag, Drugs, Disco, and Atlanta’s Gay Revoluti
We're telling stories about a kind of love that created us, sustained us, maybe drove us crazy. A kind of love that—no matter what—made us who we are. This special episode of Hear-Tell revisits stories about relationship
John T Edge
director · Southern Foodways Alliance
2 appearances on this show
John T. Edge
author and University of Georgia MFA Distinguished Professor of Practice · Southern Foodways Alliance
2 appearances on this show
Pat Thomas
Chief of Staff for Missouri Senate President Pro Tem Cindy O’Laughlin · University of Georgia
1 appearance on this show
Ryan Atkinson
High-Profile Security Specialist · Spacebar Visuals
1 appearance on this show
Karen Thomas
2017 MFA graduate · Marion P. Thomas Charter School
1 appearance on this show
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