{"product_id":"9781574417197","title":"The Best American Newspaper Narratives, Volume 5","description":"\u003cbr\u003eThis anthology collects the ten winners of the 2016 Best American Newspaper Narrative Writing Contest at the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference, an event hosted by the Frank W. Mayborn Graduate Institute of Journalism at the University of North Texas.\u003cp\u003eFirst place winner: Terrence McCoy, “It Was an Accident, Baby” \u003ci\u003e(The Washington Post),\u003c\/i\u003e relates how a family in Alabama coped after the family’s four-year-old accidentally killed his nine-year-old sister.\u003cbr\u003e Second place: Hannah Dreier, “A Child’s Scraped Knee” \u003ci\u003e(Associated Press),\u003c\/i\u003e which depicts how medical supply shortages in Venezuela turned a simple injury into a life-threatening condition for a three-year-old.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThird place: Billy Baker, “The Power of Will” \u003ci\u003e(The Boston Globe),\u003c\/i\u003e focuses on a family’s search for a cure for their son’s rare form of cancer, which led them to a maverick doctor.\u003cbr\u003e Runners-up include John Woodrow Cox, “A Marine’s Conviction” \u003ci\u003e(The Washington Post);\u003c\/i\u003e Christopher Goffard, “Framed” \u003ci\u003e(The Los Angeles Times);\u003c\/i\u003e Steve Thompson, “The Long Way Home” \u003ci\u003e(The Dallas Morning-News);\u003c\/i\u003e N. R. Kleinfield, “Fraying at the Edges” \u003ci\u003e(The New York Times);\u003c\/i\u003e Anna Kuchment and Steve Thompson, “Seismic Denial” \u003ci\u003e(The Dallas Morning-News);\u003c\/i\u003e Lauren Caruba, “55 Minutes” \u003ci\u003e(The Houston Chronicle);\u003c\/i\u003e and Lisa Wangsness, “In Search of Sanctuary” \u003ci\u003e(The Boston Globe).\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of North Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47049474441456,"sku":"9781574417197","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781574417197_p0.jpg?v=1763797325","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781574417197","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}