# The Creative Nonfiction Podcast with Brendan O'Meara Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-creative-nonfiction-podcast-with-brendan-o-meara-1081136 Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-creative-nonfiction-podcast-with-brendan-o-meara-1081136.md RSS feed: https://feeds.zencastr.com/f/4By4iB3V.rss Official site: https://brendanomeara.com Author: creativenonfictionpodcast@gmail.com Episodes: 559 ## Resource The Creative Nonfiction Podcast with Brendan O'Meara is a weekly podcast that showcases leaders in narrative journalism, essay, memoir, documentary film, radio and podcasts about the art and craft of telling true stories. Follow the show @creativenonfictionpodcast on Instagram and visit patreon.com/cnfpod to support! ## Machine-readable JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-creative-nonfiction-podcast-with-brendan-o-meara-1081136 Markdown: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-creative-nonfiction-podcast-with-brendan-o-meara-1081136.md ## Episodes - [Episode 538: The Enduring Mystery of Amelia Earhart with Rachel Hartigan](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-creative-nonfiction-podcast-with-brendan-o-meara-1081136/episode-538-the-enduring-mystery-of-amelia-earhart-with-rachel-hartigan) — 2026-07-24T10:00:00+00:00 - [Episode 537: Pamela Colloff's Now-or-Never Moment with 'Catch the Devil'](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-creative-nonfiction-podcast-with-brendan-o-meara-1081136/episode-537-pamela-colloff-s-now-or-never-moment-with-catch-the-devil) — 2026-07-17T10:00:00+00:00 - [Episode 536: The Blood, Flesh, and Messiness of Human Existence with Matthew Wolfe](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-creative-nonfiction-podcast-with-brendan-o-meara-1081136/episode-536-the-blood-flesh-and-messiness-of-human-existence-with-matthew-wolfe) — 2026-07-10T10:00:00+00:00 - [Episode 535: Alex Ronan's Masterclass in the Depth of Reporting](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-creative-nonfiction-podcast-with-brendan-o-meara-1081136/episode-535-alex-ronan-s-masterclass-in-the-depth-of-reporting) — 2026-07-03T10:00:00+00:00 - [Episode 534: Shoeleather Reporting and Exploring the Riddles of America with Wil Haygood](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-creative-nonfiction-podcast-with-brendan-o-meara-1081136/episode-534-shoeleather-reporting-and-exploring-the-riddles-of-america-with-wil-haygood) — 2026-06-26T10:00:00+00:00 - [Episode 533: Susan Orlean on Her 'Best' Rejection, Coming Up with Ideas, and Letting the Reporting Meander](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-creative-nonfiction-podcast-with-brendan-o-meara-1081136/episode-533-susan-orlean-on-her-best-rejection-coming-up-with-ideas-and-letting-the-reporting-meander) — 2026-06-19T10:00:00+00:00 - [Episode 532: Barry Meier Likes to be Open to Surprises](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-creative-nonfiction-podcast-with-brendan-o-meara-1081136/episode-532-barry-meier-likes-to-be-open-to-surprises) — 2026-06-12T10:00:00+00:00 - [Episode 531: Austin Kleon Goes Beast Mode in 'Don't Call It Art'](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-creative-nonfiction-podcast-with-brendan-o-meara-1081136/episode-531-austin-kleon-goes-beast-mode-in-don-t-call-it-art) — 2026-06-05T10:00:00+00:00 - [Episode 530: Finding that 'Sinewy Strength' in the Prose with Maccabee Montandon](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-creative-nonfiction-podcast-with-brendan-o-meara-1081136/episode-530-finding-that-sinewy-strength-in-the-prose-with-maccabee-montandon) — 2026-06-04T10:00:00+00:00 - [Episode 529: Dan John says, 'Inspiration is for Amateurs' … and He's Correct](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-creative-nonfiction-podcast-with-brendan-o-meara-1081136/episode-529-dan-john-says-inspiration-is-for-amateurs-and-he-s-correct) — 2026-05-29T10:00:00+00:00 - [Episode 528: Stuck? Ramona Ausubel Will 'Unstuck' You!](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-creative-nonfiction-podcast-with-brendan-o-meara-1081136/episode-528-stuck-ramona-ausubel-will-unstuck-you) — 2026-05-22T10:00:00+00:00 - [Episode 527: Isaac Fitzgerald says the Truth is a Block of Wood](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-creative-nonfiction-podcast-with-brendan-o-meara-1081136/episode-527-isaac-fitzgerald-says-the-truth-is-a-block-of-wood) — 2026-05-15T13:22:03+00:00 - [Episode 526: Chanda Prescod-Weinstein's Literary Reading of the Universe](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-creative-nonfiction-podcast-with-brendan-o-meara-1081136/episode-526-chanda-prescod-weinstein-s-literary-reading-of-the-universe) — 2026-05-08T10:00:00+00:00 - [Episode 525: Mary Cain Started with Pure Anger in 'This Is Not About Running'](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-creative-nonfiction-podcast-with-brendan-o-meara-1081136/episode-525-mary-cain-started-with-pure-anger-in-this-is-not-about-running) — 2026-05-01T10:00:00+00:00 - [Episode 524: Nick Davidson Was Writing an Atavist Story All Along](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-creative-nonfiction-podcast-with-brendan-o-meara-1081136/episode-524-nick-davidson-was-writing-an-atavist-story-all-along) — 2026-04-30T14:00:00+00:00 - [Episode 523: Lidia Yuknavitch Troubles the Edges](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-creative-nonfiction-podcast-with-brendan-o-meara-1081136/episode-523-lidia-yuknavitch-troubles-the-edges) — 2026-04-24T10:00:00+00:00 - [Episode 522: Anthony DePalma Won't Wear Headphones on a Walk](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-creative-nonfiction-podcast-with-brendan-o-meara-1081136/episode-522-anthony-depalma-won-t-wear-headphones-on-a-walk) — 2026-04-17T10:00:00+00:00 - [Episode 521: Giri Nathan Takes the Insider-Outsider Perspective](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-creative-nonfiction-podcast-with-brendan-o-meara-1081136/episode-521-giri-nathan-takes-the-insider-outsider-perspective) — 2026-04-10T10:00:00+00:00 - [Episode 520: R. Renee Hess on the Work that Inspires her and the Founding of Black Girl Hockey Club](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-creative-nonfiction-podcast-with-brendan-o-meara-1081136/episode-520-r-renee-hess-on-the-work-that-inspires-her-and-the-founding-of-black-girl-hockey-club) — 2026-04-03T10:00:00+00:00 - [Episode 519: Stephen Wood's 'Ocean's 11' Anti-Government Caper](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-creative-nonfiction-podcast-with-brendan-o-meara-1081136/episode-519-stephen-wood-s-ocean-s-11-anti-government-caper) — 2026-04-01T22:16:33+00:00 - [Episode 518: All Hail Gen-X with Geezer Magazine!](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-creative-nonfiction-podcast-with-brendan-o-meara-1081136/episode-518-all-hail-gen-x-with-geezer-magazine) — 2026-03-27T10:00:00+00:00 - [Episode 517: The Miracle of Writing a Book with Keith O'Brien](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-creative-nonfiction-podcast-with-brendan-o-meara-1081136/episode-517-the-miracle-of-writing-a-book-with-keith-o-brien) — 2026-03-20T10:00:00+00:00 - [Episode 516: Tom Junod Wrote One of the Best Memoirs You'll Ever Read](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-creative-nonfiction-podcast-with-brendan-o-meara-1081136/episode-516-tom-junod-wrote-one-of-the-best-memoirs-you-ll-ever-read) — 2026-03-13T10:00:00+00:00 - [Episode 515: Pitching Stories and Not Topics with Atavist Writer Peter Ward](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-creative-nonfiction-podcast-with-brendan-o-meara-1081136/episode-515-pitching-stories-and-not-topics-with-atavist-writer-peter-ward) — 2026-03-06T11:00:00+00:00 - [Episode 514: Tony Rehagen is Never and Always on the Clock](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-creative-nonfiction-podcast-with-brendan-o-meara-1081136/episode-514-tony-rehagen-is-never-and-always-on-the-clock) — 2026-02-27T11:00:00+00:00 ## Actions Episode pages expose an explicit `request_transcript` action. 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