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“This Land”closes its print edition this month, capping seven years of extraordinary local journalism.

Here’s a powerful story from Rilla Askew, author of Fire in Beulah, about race and growing up in Oklahoma. Askew spoke during our night of storytelling with This Land Press in New York City. The full talk is below, and you can see all our storytellers at our YouTube page:

Journalist Kiera Feldman, who we’ve featured on Longreads many times in the past, told this story during our special night with This Land Press at Housing Works in New York City. Here’s her full story below. See more from the rest of our storytellers here on YouTube.

This year, Longreads worked with a group of outstanding writers and publishers to produce original stories and exclusives that hadn’t been previously published online. It was all funded with support from our Longreads Members. You can read them all here. Here’s a list of the 10 most popular stories we published this year. Join us to […]

To get you ready for the big night, we’re thrilled to share a reading list of stories and books from the event’s featured storytellers.

Longreads & WordPress.com present
A special night of storytelling with
This Land

Featuring:

Mark Singer (The New Yorker)

Rilla Askew (Author, “Fire in Beulah”)

Ginger Strand (Author, “Inventing Niagara”)

Kiera Feldman (Writer, “Grace in Broken Arrow,” “This Is My Beloved Son”)

Marcos Barbery (Journalist and Documentarian, Writer, “From One Fire”)

Wednesday, Oct. 29th, 7:00 p.m.
Free Admission

Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
126 Crosby Street
New York, NY 10012

In our latest Longreads Exclusive, Kiera Feldman and Tulsa-based magazine This Land Press went deep into the downfall of the Oral Roberts family dynasty—how Richard Roberts went from heir to the televangelist’s empire, to stripped from his role at Oral Roberts University. Feldman, a Brooklyn-based journalist, and This Land Press have worked together before—her story […]

He was the heir to the televangelist’s empire, but Richard Roberts soon disappeared from the university that his father founded.

On Iron Eyes Cody and “the tribe of the Wannabe.”

Thanks to Longreads Members’ support (join us here), we’re able to bring you outstanding stories from publishers and writers around the world—including today’s Member Pick from This Land Press, which is doing some incredible work out of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and whose story by Kiera Feldman, “Grace in Broken Arrow,” topped our Best of 2012 list.  […]

The story of a sex abuse scandal inside a Tulsa Christian school, where church leaders were in denial and where the crimes shattered the lives of victims and their families: No more sleepovers. No more babysitting, or car rides home. No more being alone with children or ‘lingering hugs given to students (especially using your […]

Featured Publisher: This Land Press. See stories about winemakers, Melville’s birthplace, and more on their #Longreads page.

“I’ve been teaching high school social studies for 18 years, so it’s hard for me to be shocked by the behavior of students. But every once in a while, someone manages to surprise me. One day last year I looked up at the auditorium stage to hear one of my students deliver a speech that […]