by tina.casagrand | Mar 12, 2020 | Blog, Call for Submissions, Here, Literature, Midwest
Is there a Midwestern author or book that you love? Have you visited their home or made a pilgrimage to their birthplace? Do you share a hometown? On your commute, do you pass by a site from within their writing? Do you live near a site that has been lost or...
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 tina.casagrand | Aug 15, 2019 | Department, Here, Midwest, Personal Essay
Making Places Personal. BY ALICE DRIVER | THE NEW TERRITORY ISSUE 06 Within a hundred-mile radius of our house in Oark, Arkansas, you can find industrial pig and chicken farms, places where flesh is only measured in weight, where a half-dead but artificially fattened...
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...
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...