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Announcing the 2024 Proximity Prize in Personal Essay

We are thrilled to announce the winners of our 2024 Proximity Prize in Personal Essay. Daniel M. Lavery was the judge, and he told us,..
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2024 Nonfiction Round Up

Here's what our contributors and editors loved in 2024 and what they're excited for in 2025.
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2024 Proximity Prize Issue | Theme: TRANSPLANT

The 2025 Proximity Prize Issue is here! Submit something! We’re pleased to announce: The 2025 Proximity Literary Journalism Prize and Personal Essay Prize with the..
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Nonfiction Round Up

From books to articles to podcasts, here's what the editors of true. enjoyed in 2023!
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true is Back

Please allow us to re-introduce true, a home for essays and writing on the craft of nonfiction in its many forms, as well as reviews, interviews, and criticism.
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True’s Top Reads of 2018

As we step into the new year, we’d like to not only alert you to Proximity‘s next issue, themed The Body, due out in January—within..
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2018 Proximity Essay Prize — announcement

We’re thrilled to announce: Hanif Abdurraqib is the 2018 Proximity Essay Prize Judge. Hanif Abdurraqib is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio...
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From the Editors: Proximity’s Next Issue, Submission Calls, and 2018 Prizes

Dear Proximity readers and potential contributors, Due to a major website issue (and scare!)–our first in four years–we’ve been taking measures necessary to secure our..
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Still, More, Writers at Work

Last season, TRUE editor, Dina Relles, asked several nonfiction writers about their working and writing lives and the post was so well-received, we decided to..
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grateful

We will not be posting new blog content this week. But if you haven’t yet had the opportunity to read the wonderful winning work from..