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By Amy Shea My first-ever published essay, “The Period Calendar,” was about getting my first period during a time when teen pregnancy dominated cultural imagination. I didn’t think...
By Yelizaveta P. Renfro After being a guest speaker in a graduate creative nonfiction workshop this spring, I received a note from the instructor who wrote to thank me for sharing...
If you live in the creative world on any level and even if your creative pursuit is super niche, you need to read this nonfiction book.
From a young age, my reading tastes have gravitated toward books grounded in reality. Places replete with vivid, authenticating details. Problems defined by the messiness of real l...
By Micaela Edelson In the era of globalization, travel is more accessible than ever and with it has come a boom in travel influencers and bloggers eager to highlight the next best...
Coming of age is a lifelong creative act. So, too, is the act of making a family—biological, found, or some amalgam of the two. For writers who grow up with artistic parents or par...
With Useful Prompts and Exercises By Tara Labovich Image is specificity. Specificity is evidence. Don’t write about childhood, the grand sweep of those 18 years. If you want to say...
By Kit Carlson I have a new lease on my writing life, and I owe it all to Harriet the Spy. I was just cleaning the guest room, organizing the shelves where we keep the huge collect...
Over the years I’ve been asked when I plan to write a memoir. I’ve said never. It’s my obsessive nature to move forward full speed without looking back. But as has been true of mos...
Memoirs, histories, true crime, investigations and much more.
In the fall of 2019, my debut novel came out: Ain’t Nobody Nobody—a quirky, small town literary crime novel set in East Texas. It was reviewed well. I got compared to Carl Hiassen,...
“I don’t know much about creative writing programs. But they’re not telling the truth if they don’t teach, one, that writing is hard work…Continue reading on Go Into The Story »
Riordan saw that the police station was wreathed in oily black smoke from the Molotov cocktails, below that a heaving mass of protesters chanting slogans, the roar of the crowd und...
Brevity magazine has launched its 82nd issue of vivid, innovative flash nonfiction, featuring brief prose exploring diehard fandom, self-discovery, rising tides, and surprise encou...
“You haven’t written a book, but you are a writer.” By Ann V. Klotz As the head of a school, my writing happened in those spaces in between. Sure, I did plenty of writing as a scho...
Writers have problems. Writers win prizes. Writers play ping-pong, think other writers are their friends. Writers write baseball novels. Writers write war novels. Writers write abo...
by James Scott Bell @jamesscottbell Memorial Day Weekend. Across this land of ours, barbecues will be firing, grill masters will be grilling, hot dogs and hamburgers will be sizzli...
Three years ago I broke my brain. Or, I should say, my brain was broken by grief. That summer my graduate mentor, the writer Aurelie Sheehan, died after a swift and truncated battl...
They say that truth is stranger than fiction. Now we can’t say for sure if that’s true, but what we can confirm is that our picks for the latest in non-fiction hold their own when...
By Hilary T. Smith I became a full-time ghostwriter and editor after leaving an emotionally abusive marriage. Ghostwriting paid faster than pitching books or essays under my own na...
The novelist discusses works of fiction that draw from the people one knows—often, to controversial effect.
By Elizabeth Jannuzzi I recently heard a woman with over 30 years of sobriety speak at a 12-step recovery meeting. She’d been around the block—could explain the history of Alcoholi...
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