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 vo…
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Listeners of Life Out Loud Podcast that love the show mention:What goes on in school outside the 7th grade classrooms can be...complicated.
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The pandemic brought on new challenges, but it also revealed some old ones...
Two authors fight a destructive third-party in what's perhaps the most important relationship they have.
Supporting a close-family member through a life-threatening illness is no easy task --for anyone.
The past can sound pretty loud during the deafening loneliness of a COVID-19 quarantine...
When these two authors drop everything for a physical chase, who knows what they’ll find in the end?
Two female authors find themselves surrounded by strict cultural expectations, but is that entirely a "bad" thing? Maybe. Maybe not...
While preparing for fictional roles on stage, these two actors learn something quite real
Two female authors, two carefully painted portraits of specific men--their nows, their thens, their left-behinds.
Through first-hand accounts, two authors explore the stigmas surrounding parts of their identities
In true literary journalism style, two young authors search for the truth(s) of some rather complex incidents...
Two authors examine how things have unfolded in ways they didn't quite expect in the "new world."
Displaced, temporary, not-so-temporary? How do we decide who gets to call someplace "home"?
Will these anonymous authors succeed in their pushback against the deep generational ties that bind them?
Are these three authors really to blame for...what happened?
Three sets of siblings--all fighting both with and for each other
Sometimes, things just don't go the way we thought they would....
Three young women authors: All deeply in love and all with an important choice to make...
With mixed results, these three authors share their pursuit of "The American Dream."
Three surprising investigations set in and around the place we know best...
Featuring four authors who bravely take part in complicated, personal, and sometimes maddening investigations.
Three authors wonder whether the truth is always worth speaking.
Through three disparate translation experiences, these three authors find themselves lost, found, or…somewhere in between.
These three authors see way more than their own reflection in the mirror.
Surely one of these three authors finds "the one." Right?
Three new stories on the art and strife of care-taking
Three surprising nail-biters (set on three different continents!) in which our authors explore why freedom is worth the fight.