by Bryce McElhaney | May 10, 2018 | Blog, Free Story of the Month, Longform
The people making grassland ecotourism work in Nebraska took lessons from Namibia. BY DANIEL CLAUSEN | PHOTOS BY MICHAEL FORSBERG | THE NEW TERRITORY ISSUE 06 | PDF Version Sarah Sortum leaned outside her tent and gazed at silhouettes of camelthorn trees backlit by...
by Bryce McElhaney | Feb 28, 2018 | Blog, Features, Free Story of the Month, Longform, Midwest
A Juneteenth Like No Other BY MELISSA STUCKEY | THE NEW TERRITORY ISSUE05 (sold out)| PDF Version Say have you heard the story Of the little Colored town; Way over in the Nation On such lovely sloping ground? With as pretty little houses As you ever chanced to...
by Bryce McElhaney | Feb 15, 2018 | Blog, Features, Free Story of the Month, Longform
Micronesian migrants struggle to access health care in Oklahoma and Arkansas. BY KRISTA LANGLOIS | THE NEW TERRITORY ISSUE 04 | PDF Version Lenwa Joab has a soft, creased face and hands that rest motionless in her lap. She is 65 but looks older. Her husband, Ernest,...
by tina.casagrand | Dec 1, 2017 | Blog, Creative Nonfiction, Features, Free Story of the Month, Longform
BY MICHAELLA A. THORNTON | THE NEW TERRITORY ISSUE 02 | PDF Version When planning which story to share in full in December, our team quickly pointed to Michaella A. Thornton. Not only did we think a lyrical essay that bobs through inner demons with the perkiness of...
by Bryce McElhaney | Feb 13, 2017 | Features, Longform
As humans restructure the landscape, one species changes with it. BY CONOR GEARIN | THE NEW TERRITORY ISSUE 04 Evolution can happen any day, any time. Sometimes all it takes is a particularly nasty Midwestern rainstorm. In late May 1996, two Ford F-150s rolled toward...
by Bryce McElhaney | Nov 24, 2016 | Features, Longform
A newly discovered letter reveals Mark Twain’s biographer and literary executor as a charmer who was either a liar or a bigamist. BY MAX MCCOY | THE NEW TERRITORY ISSUE 03 When Albert Bigelow Paine came at Mark Twain’s invitation to the author’s Fifth Avenue...