"the problem with American literature today is the epiphanies are always in the same place"
--Rick Moody, author and sometime radio guy, speaking on day 1 of the TCF

"doing a two-minute radio story is like carving a sculpture into a walnut"
--Dave Isay, day 2

"Walnut Carvers of the World Unite!"
--hypothetical Chicago graffito

Distance and time is against us but we'd love to know results of the comp.Hope you're all having a great time!
Natalie

natalie!

we missed you this year, without a doubt. i hope you're already planning to make it next...

here's the goods...

best new artist - bente birkeland - hard to say

radio impact -teresa goff, in so many words

directors choice - thirteen ways, pejk malinovski

hon. mention - legs, hope and water by peggy giakoumelos and lea redfern

hon mention - perfect hearing, by nubar alexanian, abby alexanian, and jay allison

hon mention - all my stuff in bags - amy dorn and hillary frank

bronze - the few who stayed: defying genocide in rwanda by stephen smith and michael montgomery

silver - joseph shabalala: in his own words, by david shulman and jeffrey freymann-weyr

gold - she's alright, my mum is, by kim normanton and nigel acheson.

check out the third coast site on tuesday for a beeeyoootiful photo of the winners and soon after for a photo gallery.

julie

For inspiration, some of those award acceptance speeches did the trick for me. I interviewed all the winners for the broadcast during the conference (which kept me out of sessions unfortunately) and they were all thoughtful and full of heart.

I hope others will post here about the moments that inspired them.

"whatever your ideology about journalism and art, story is what we do"
- Sharon Ball

" I highly recommend the blacklist as a career move"
- Studs Terkel, at home watching the World Series

For inspiration to guide us through the darkness ... Jude Fletcher's wonderful piece, filled with Day of the Dead spirit ... Isay and Kotlowitz playing stunning piece after stunning piece (including a feature on the muralist-for-hire of the Robert Taylor homes, another Joseph Mitchell-for-our-times piece produced by Kotlowitz with Amy Dorn) ... an amazing all-star team of editors, talking some inspiring and pragmatic shop ... a real and useful session on covering race issues ... and getting to finally say a thank you, in person, to Jeff Towne for providing such amazingly helpful audio production 'tools' for us independent producers (http://www.transom.org/tools/index.html) ... thank you all for the inspiration ...
-D