by tina.casagrand | Jun 18, 2020 | Features, Free Story of the Month, Longform
“You Can’t Stop the Ceremonies:” The Wakarusa Wetlands BY SOREN LARSEN and JAY T. JOHNSON | THE NEW TERRITORY ISSUE 07 The thing about ceremonies is that you can’t stop them. They tried to do that with the ceremonies here at Haskell before. And that’s what the...
by tina.casagrand | Feb 21, 2020 | Features, Longform, Midwest
In a dwindling and rapidly changing local news scene, young reporters step in to preserve the stories of their communities and of themselves. BY DENÉ K. DRYDEN | THE NEW TERRITORY ISSUE 10 (in print November 2020) Cheyenne Derksen Schroeder sat in her...
by tina.casagrand | Jan 29, 2020 | Blog, Features, Longform, Midwest
A court ruling in 2018 shifted the future of America’s longest river away from ecological restoration. But was the science behind its decision accurate? BY ROBERT LANGELLIER | THE NEW TERRITORY ISSUE 10 (in print November 2020) Scott Olson...
by Julia Shiota | Apr 24, 2019 | Blog, Features, Longform, Making the Magazine
In our features department, our writers use storytelling to explore the people and places of the Lower Midwest. But as Jane Alison wrote recently in the Paris Review, not all stories have the same shape. It all depends. A linear narrative, chronological and tidy, can...
by tina.casagrand | Oct 15, 2018 | Blog, Features, Free Story of the Month, Longform
STORY AND PHOTOS BY OLIVIA EXSTRUM | THE NEW TERRITORY ISSUE 06 | PDF Version (English) (read in English) NOTA: Los nombres de *Martha y *Luisa fueron cambiados para proteger su identidad. Martha* nunca olvidará el día que perdió a su madre. No fue...
by Bryce McElhaney | Jun 18, 2018 | Blog, Free Story of the Month, Longform
A journey across America’s heartland to find the future of small towns BY DANIEL BLUE TYX | THE NEW TERRITORY ISSUE 06 | PDF Version I grew up in a small town in Middle America. I also left. For both these reasons, I found myself feeling personally attacked when...