PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay
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Patrick Dorey sends us his Song Story about a time in his life when, with the loss of his Mom, he began to question who he was.
- Added: Sep 06, 2015
- Length: 05:19
Here's a Song Story guaranteed to make you smile, if not tear up.
- Added: Sep 01, 2015
- Length: 03:41
Christine navigates love and romance as she grows up.
- Added: Aug 31, 2015
- Length: 07:08
Becca doesn't have very good luck with hiking. This is the story of her two near-death experiences with hiking, set ten years apart.
- Added: Apr 26, 2015
- Length: 04:16
What does life look like after experiencing major trauma?
- Added: Dec 12, 2014
- Length: 11:00
What does life look like after experiencing major trauma?
- Added: Dec 12, 2014
- Length: 21:09
Hundreds of social justice advocates and organizers passed away in 2014, leaving their work behind as their legacy, but often also leaving an irrep...
- Added: Dec 10, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
A cold-water, slap on the face, static-electric jolt reminder of just how powerfully spaces can affect the way we think and act.
Bought by WMUU-LP, CHSR-FM 97.9, and Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Jun 27, 2014
- Length: 58:30
- Purchases: 3
Short Description: MEMOIR about her soldier son who committed suicide. She talks about writing non-fiction and her earlier elegiac book, EMBALMING...
- Added: Jun 26, 2014
- Length: 29:00
This week, four stories of people who don’t quite belong in the world where they live, who take matters into their own hands to create belonging.
Bought by WMUU-LP and CHSR-FM 97.9
- Added: Jun 25, 2014
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 2
Mother’s Day is the one day of the year we set aside to honor mothers. Some do it with flowers and cards. For women who are in prison and their chi...
- Added: Jun 11, 2014
- Length: 24:57
- Purchases: 2
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
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
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
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
When you’re an 18 year old mom-to-be, what are your resources and how do you cope?
- Added: Feb 06, 2014
- Length: 05:35
A non-fictional piece about how I relinquished my power of DISSOCIATION in order to finally allow someone to love me.
- Added: Feb 03, 2014
- Length: 05:35
Storyville is a new collaboration between of the University of New Orleans and WWNO. These are true stories about New Orleans written by the studen...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 23, 2014
- Length: 05:33
- Purchases: 1
Dayquan, a student at Harrison High School in Minneapolis, writes about moving forward despite having to struggle
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Jan 13, 2014
- Length: 01:39
- Purchases: 1
The 2012 Georgia Author of the Year Award in Poetry, Alice Friman's other honors include the Ezra Pound Poetry Award for her third book, ZOO. In t...
- Added: Dec 20, 2013
- Length: 29:00
Annie confronts her brother about his lying.
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WJCT, and PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 17, 2013
- Length: 12:14
- Purchases: 3
When Maryama Abdi came with her family to this country from Somalia, she left behind someone very dear to her.
- Added: Dec 11, 2013
- Length: 01:49
Your baby is almost here – her siblings are excited, and you’ve been through this two times before… but what if things don’t go as planned?
- Added: Oct 16, 2013
- Length: 05:27
Recently the Park Street rape victim did something almost unthinkable in India. She revealed her identity.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 30, 2013
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
Charmil Davis talking to the US Congress from New Jersey Donald Payne Jr.
- Added: Jun 09, 2013
- Length: 09:40
