Brendan O'Meara

Follows up are always quick. "Just a quick follow up ..."

Rage! Rage against the algorithm!

Kim H. Cross: 'Dissect it Like a Frog' The best-selling author, instructor, and narrative nonfictionist breaks down her "Operation Wheelie" pitch, a "quest" narrative

Issue 3 of Pitch Club is up! This features Kim Cross and her pitch for "Operation Wheelie," a "quest narrative" where she taught herself how to do a wheelie. It ran in @outsidemag.bsky.social.

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Wow, thanks, Mark!

Episode 481: Nieman Storyboard's Mark Armstrong Believes in the Beginners' Mindset Podcast Episode · The Creative Nonfiction Podcast with Brendan O'Meara · 08/01/2025 · 1h 7m

Honored and thrilled to join @brendanomeara.bsky.social on the Creative Nonfiction Podcast today. We talked about the state of journalism and storytelling, some early #longreads lore, and why I love taking voice lessons.

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Calendar porn.

Hot Take: The best athletes in the world are heptathletes and decathletes.

If not best, then maybe the most perfect.

Scottie Scheffler raised questions about happiness and fulfillment. This professor has answers

This is great stuff.

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Thanks to @markarms.bsky.social for the shout out about the fun event @brendanomeara.bsky.social and I did at Elliott Bay Books last week. I wholeheartedly agree that reading books and connecting in real life is an antidote to this awful awful time.

Dana Jeri Maier, cartoonist extraordinaire, talking about #rejection on this week's CNF Pod, Ep. 480.

Pitch Club | Brendan O'Meara | Substack Brendan O'Meara is a journalist, author, and host of The Creative Nonfiction Podcast. Pitch Club — combining text and audio — dissects pitches from the best longform journalists, how they framed their...

The hottest thing since me in 7-inch inseam shorts. It's Pitch Club!

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Hot Chips by Michael Copperman | Land of the Hot Cheeto, Home of the Brave.

A @short-reads.org original. By @michaelcopperman.bsky.social, get a napkin.

93: Brendan O'Meara of the Creative Nonfiction podcast and author, Podcast Episode · Sports Writers Inc. with JD: Sports Writers Talk Sports Writing · 07/18/2025 · 48m

Hot pod-on-pod action. Thanks to @sportswritersinc.bsky.social!

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Rhana Natour says Each Story Is Its Own Storm Rhana Natour takes us inside her pitch for her National Magazine Award-winning Atavist story "Coming to America."

I will die on the hill of Pitch Club!

Forever free! Join the club!

#freelance #journalism #querying #pitching #writing

Not that anyone will see this but ... come join us ... or don't ...

Had a really fun time speaking with @jeffsharlet.bsky.social on the podcast, Ep. 479. Available wherever you dig your pods, friend!

#writing #creativenonfiction

Yes! Thanks, Mr. Doyle, for the great conversation!

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS for Issue 4 of the Audio Magazine: CODES – Home of The Creative Nonfiction Podcast photo “courtesy” of CNN.com

I put this on pause when I was in the heat of Prefontaine research, but I'm happy to bring the audio magazine back for Issue 4: Codes.

Read the guidelines, and send me your best! I pay $$$ to those who get published, from the O'Meara Grant. Yeah!

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Hey, Seattle #runners and #writers (both?), come check me and @maggiemertens.bsky.social out as we talk about The Front Runner and Steve Prefontaine!

Thursday night, 7 p.m.

No doubt!

Very kind of you, Tracy!

Deerhoof Are 'Quitting Spotify' Over CEO Investing in 'AI Battle Tech' Company Deerhoof said they are leaving Spotify after its CEO invested nearly $700 million in Helsing, which makes military drones and AI defense software.

Time to get a CD player.

This is — what's the word? — pretty damn fucked up, Ek.

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Ten days, friend! I'll be chatting (and meeting) with @maggiemertens.bsky.social about The Front Runner. But I'm gonna be super sneaky and make her talk about Better, Faster, Farther, 2.

The 1st person who buys her book at the event will get one of mine on the house (I mean, like, I'll buy it).

The Phone-demic July "Front Runner" events, a "Front Runner" sweepstakes, and books by Rax King, Mallary Tenore Tarpley, Tracy Slater, and Patrycja Humienik

Thank you to @brendanomeara.bsky.social of the Creative Nonfiction Podcast for giving Together in Manzanar a little pre-pub shoutout❤️, and calling the book "a necessary and important history that sadly feels “of the moment.” #booksky #greatguy rageagainstthealgorithm.beehiiv.com/p/the-phone-...

Rhana Natour says Each Story Is Its Own Storm Rhana Natour takes us inside her pitch for her National Magazine Award-winning Atavist story "Coming to America."

It's Issue 2 of Pitch Club! This features @atavist.com writer Rhana Natour and her pitch for her story "Coming to America," which won the National Magazine Award for profile writing.

Each Pitch Club features a writer audio annotating their winning pitch. Read a little. Listen a little. Learn a lot!

The top ten airports in the U.S., according to data analyzed by @andrewvandam.bsky.social

YouTube video by The Creative Nonfiction Podcast The Super Mile

Hey, my wonderful publisher @marinerbooks.bsky.social gave me an audio excerpt of The Front Runner to share. Dig it!

I'll email you :)

Do people pay to get reviewed? This seems real sleazy on the part of certain "book-fluencers." Someone feigned interest in The Front Runner and said they charge a fee to review. I was like, nah, I'm good.

As an aside, I never take $ from people to be featured on the pod. Never have, never will.

July shenanigans. Hope to see you at one of these shindigs.