When
 these two authors drop everything
for a physical chase,
who knows what they’ll find in the end?

5.7 - Down the Block

The past can sound pretty loud during the deafening loneliness of a COVID-19 quarantine...

6.1 - What Speaks in Silence

Supporting a close-family member through a life-threatening illness is no easy task --for anyone.

6.2 - From an Insider

6.3 - Winner, Winner

Two authors fight a destructive third-party in what's perhaps the most important relationship they have.

6.4 - Me and Her and...This

6.6 - Toward the Great Escape

7.2 - Regretfully Yours

7.3 - (No) Can Do?

8.1 - Finding My Place

8.3 - State of Emergency

8.4 - Sweet Sorrow

8.5 - Dimensions of a Dad

The punishment just doesn't fit the crime! Or...does it?

8.6 ~ Busted!

What goes on in school outside the 7th grade classrooms can be...complicated.

9.1 ~ Around the Halls

9.4 ~ Was it a Sign?

9.5~Work Flow

9.6 ~ Alive and...Well

This Halloween will be different. Or, will it? 

10.1 ~ All Dressed Up

Two authors walk us through who's here for dinner...and why. 

10.2 ~ Around the Table

10.3  ~ Finding Distance

3.1 - A Genesis

Three surprising investigations set in and around the place we know best...

3.2 - Home is Where

Three surprising stories about best friends.

3.4 - Friend of Mine

Three young women authors: All deeply in love and all with an important choice to make...

3.5 Will you?

4.3 - Blindsided

Displaced, temporary, not-so-temporary? How do we decide who gets to call someplace "home"?

4.8 - No Other Home

Two authors examine how things have unfolded in ways they didn't quite expect in the "new world."

4.9 - In the Years that Followed

In true literary journalism style, two young authors search for the truth(s) of some rather complex incidents...

4.10 - In Search Of Truth(s)

Two female authors, two carefully painted portraits of specific men--their nows, their thens, their left-behinds.

5.3 - His Whole World

Sometimes "help" is the last thing you need

5.4 - Help (Not) Wanted

While preparing for fictional roles on stage, these two actors learn something quite real

5.5 - Character Development

Life Out Loud is a literary nonfiction podcast series that features real students' stories. Born in a John Jay College Creative Nonfiction writing classroom in the Fall, 2015 semester, Life Out Loud seeks to diversify the perspectives typically shared in the CNF genre. Our project aims to amplify voices seldom heard though artful truth-telling simply because we believe that all stories matter; we make them, and they make us.

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