PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay

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Hi I’m Makayla and my piece is about my adventures being a fifth grade reject.

  • Added: Jan 21, 2021
  • Length: 13:40
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On this episode of the California Innocence Project, Guy Miles shares his story about a bad identification leading to wrongful conviction -- and 18...

  • Added: Feb 07, 2018
  • Length: 04:59
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Making Contact's Community Storytelling Fellows Vincent Medina and Isabella Zizi share deep and personal stories on Native American Organizing and ...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KQED, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WRIR and more


  • Added: Sep 25, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Jenni Rowell
On this episode of Strangers... imagine waking up every morning and seeing a stranger in the mirror...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Public Radio for All, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., XRAY.fm, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 19, 2014
  • Length: :00
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: AIDS Skeletons, Credit: Bob Smith
Youth Media Project intern Tara Trudell, a student at New Mexico Highlands University, interviews South African folk artists Lulama Sihlabeni, in a...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 08:22
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N’MPower participant, Forest House, reads and reacts to Spanish Colonial artist Tomas Salazar y Weiler's artist statement and artwork in a communit...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 04:35
Caption: Diana Moya Lujan's piece at the Museum of International Folk Art
An N’MPower participant, who wishes to remain anonymous, interviews Spanish Colonial artist Diana Moya Lujan, in a community engagement project bet...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 05:57
Caption: Sharon Wirtz, left, talks to Marquell Hicks, right, in front of a panel from the NM AIDS Memorial Quilt, Credit: Katy Gross
N’MPower participant, Marquell Hicks, interviews quilt artists Sharon Wirtz and Jane Gabaldon, in a community engagement project between the Museum...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 10:00
Caption: John Gallegos, left, is interviewed by Antonio Martinez, right, with assistance from Marquell Hicks, center., Credit: Laura Marcus Green
N’MPower participant, Antonio Martinez, interviews Spanish Colonial artist John Gallegos, in a community engagement project between the Museum of I...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 06:34
Caption: this is alex, Credit: @freakdog
It is late, and things are not going well

  • Added: Jan 23, 2014
  • Length: 04:21
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Melvin talks about what it's like being from New Orleans.

  • Added: Jul 12, 2013
  • Length: 01:20
Caption: Donald Payne Jr on Left
Charmil Davis talking to the US Congress from New Jersey Donald Payne Jr.

  • Added: Jun 09, 2013
  • Length: 09:40
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
Richard is caught between two philosophies of life: his father’s hard work ethic, which saw Richard’s responsibility to help meet the immediate exp...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2013
  • Length: 15:48
Caption: Amy Allison Shipley Pictured with Dahn Yoga members
This story was the was voted the winner at Bring Your Own on June 6th, 2012. The theme that night was Undercover, where storytellers told of their...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Nov 15, 2012
  • Length: 06:16
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: The Monti American Graduate
The Monti - American Graduate Special is an hour of true stories from the front lines of North Carolina’s high school drop out crisis.

Bought by WHRV


  • Added: Aug 15, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
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Stories show us that with every ending, there follows a beginning...whether we want either to happen or not. Kate Knable watches her brother get st...

  • Added: Sep 02, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
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Some think of Bambi. Some gardeners call them rats on stilts. Still others view them as little more than obstacles on our roads. Writer Andrew Hill...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2010
  • Length: 01:37