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Geranium
by Brittany Price

October 27, 2022 Contributed By: Brittany Price

My mole has gone to Arkansas for analysis. I think: it’s been to Arkansas with me before. I think: it’s the first time my mole’s gone anywhere alone.

Filed Under: Featured Nonfiction, Nonfiction Posted On: October 27, 2022

Q&A with Novelist, Memoirist, and Nonfiction Contest Judge
Darin Strauss by Elliott Bueler

September 26, 2022 Contributed By: Darin Strauss, Elliott Bueler

Darin Strauss headshot

“Memoir is not quite a record of a life; it’s a record of your memory about some part or parts of your life.”

Filed Under: Featured Nonfiction, Interviews, Nonfiction Posted On: September 26, 2022

Thirty Things Overheard While Attending My Friend’s Wedding
by William Musgrove

August 1, 2022 Contributed By: William Musgrove

Photos by Lanty via Unsplash

1. One half of a couple staring at a woman in a pink dress resting her head on a picnic table: Shh, she’s the one from the hotel.
2. The other half pointing at the man sitting next to the woman in the pink dress: Maybe he kidnapped her, and she has Stockholm syndrome.

Filed Under: Featured Nonfiction, Nonfiction Posted On: August 1, 2022

Mick Jagger Mails a Letter
by Robert Fromberg

June 20, 2022 Contributed By: Robert Fromberg

Mick Jagger graffiti

Once I saw Mick Jagger mail a letter.

Filed Under: Featured Nonfiction, Nonfiction Posted On: June 20, 2022

The Trembling Nasties
by William Luvaas

April 18, 2022 Contributed By: Elizabeth Johnson, William Luvaas

Saturday Level and Full, 2021, oil on canvas, 48x60 by Elizabeth Johnson

I am told I was a happy, mischievous kid who smeared peanut butter on walls. Insatiably curious, I would sit down next to strangers on buses and start up conversations. I have heard that I liked to make people laugh. I don’t remember any of this.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Featured Nonfiction, Nonfiction Posted On: April 18, 2022

Smoking with Art
by Patricia Feinman

March 28, 2022 Contributed By: Patricia Feinman

Patricia Feinman sculpture

Our hair and every piece of clothing we owned were impregnated with the stench of smoke—we stank of smoke—but we didn’t care, because we loved smoking.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Featured Nonfiction, Nonfiction Posted On: March 28, 2022

I Lines
by Bobby Crace

February 21, 2022 Contributed By: Bobby Crace

Black and White Lines

The words surrounding an “I” form sentences that can be referred to as “I Lines.” A person knows how to be an “I” before they know what an “I” is.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Featured Nonfiction, Nonfiction Posted On: February 21, 2022

Year-End Wrap-Up: The MAYDAY Editors’ Books of the Year

December 17, 2021

Bookshelf Door Entrance

Looking for book recommendations? To celebrate the end of the year, the MAYDAY editorial staff shares the books they read and revisited in 2021.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Featured Nonfiction, Nonfiction Posted On: December 17, 2021

Murmurations (I): First Memory of Birds
by Heather Bartel

December 16, 2021 Contributed By: Heather Bartel

Sunset Ocean

Is a family portrait still a family portrait when a family is missing the mother?

Filed Under: Featured Content, Featured Nonfiction, Nonfiction Posted On: December 16, 2021

Made Easy
by Venus Noirre

November 4, 2021 Contributed By: Venus Noirre

Save Me Tattoo on Neck

“I was pimped out by an acquaintance when I was at my most vulnerable. It may come across I’m cavalier with this, but I’m not. I’ve just let the shame of it all go.”

Filed Under: Featured Nonfiction, Nonfiction Posted On: November 4, 2021

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