
Alison Miller
How do you turn years of reporting into a story readers can't put down? On this episode of Hear Tell, Diana Keough talks with journalist and University of Georgia MFA graduate Alison Lyn Miller about her debut book, Roug

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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 33 episodes published.

How do you turn years of reporting into a story readers can't put down? On this episode of Hear Tell, Diana Keough talks with journalist and University of Georgia MFA graduate Alison Lyn Miller about her debut book, Roug

In this episode of Hear Tell, Diana Keough talks with University of Georgia law professor and 2023 UGA MFA graduate Elizabeth Chamblee Burch about her new book, The Pain Brokers: How Con Men, Call Centers, and Rogue Doct

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
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
Karen Thomas
2017 MFA graduate · Marion P. Thomas Charter School
1 appearance on this show
Ashley Fantz
CNN
1 appearance on this show
Jan Winburn
university
1 appearance on this show
Moni Basu
Grady's MFA program
1 appearance on this show
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