Free Story of the Month Archives - The New Territory Magazine

Ceremony is Protest, Protest is Ceremony

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...

Los Espantos de Grand Island (“Ghosts of Grand Island”)

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...

A Look Back at “The Dependents:” Michael Noll’s Q&A

by Sarah Spoon | Jun 23, 2018 | Blog, Fiction, Free Story of the Month, Interviews, Literature, Midwest

Michael Noll is the author of the short story “The Dependents,” which was featured as a New Territory Free Story of the Month and appeared in The New Territory Issue 02, “In Defense,” which you can order here. Noll is Program Director at the Writers...

Free Story of the Month: ‘Rural Reinvention’

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...

Free Story of the Month: ‘Big Sky Tourism’

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...

Patrick Mainelli discusses writing, interprets history and contemporary meaning of Preparation Canyon State Park April 11

by tina.casagrand | Mar 23, 2018 | Blog, Free Story of the Month

Omaha-based writer Patrick Mainelli will discuss his creative nonfiction piece, “The Minor God of Iowa”–modern meditation on the meaning of Preparation, Iowa–in a Facebook Live Q&A on The New Territory Facebook page April 11 at 12 noon CST (postponed...