Essay as Activism: Bearing Witness Through Craft
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...
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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...
Personal essays can be revelational, and sometimes I ask myself when I write if I just really want to tell others who I want to be known…Continue reading on Medium »
By Jodi Sh. Doff I had one essay, published five times over a span of thirty years. A friend started BUST, the feminist magazine for women with something to get off their chests, i...
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...
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...
Moveee has launched Culture Narratives, a new quarterly digital publication dedicated to deeply personal essays on culture, identity, and modern life. Submissions for the inaugura...
A Free-Flow EssayContinue reading on Assemblage »
By Megan Vered When professor Samuel Autman zoomed me into his DePauw University classroom as a guest author to discuss my essay on the loss of my uterus to cancer, I hadn’t expec...
Call for Submissions – The International Amy MacRae Award for Memoir By Alison Wearing In May 2019, a small group of women met at a writing retreat in the south of France. Among th...
By Andrea A. Firth As a writer, your relationship with the reader is inherent. You come to the page to explore a question, process an experience, or make sense of something difficu...
I have always liked to imagine myself as a writer who resists the neat fences of form and genre, though the truth beneath that declaration often feels less heroic than I would...
Writing assignments can sometimes feel dry, distant, or even stressful. You sit down, look at the blank page, and think: What am I supposed to say that really matters? That is wher...
Notes from a reluctant student of the heartContinue reading on Restless Quills »
By Dana Shavin Using a screen reader or text-to-talk? Below are multiple cartoon drawings with alt-text descriptions. ________ Dana Shavin‘s essays and articles have appeared in Th...
By Tamara Jong “I don’t know if you want to hear this, but that’s another book.” Maybe I winced, just slightly, but I knew it was the truth. I had been working on my soon-to-be-pub...
Somewhere between beach bonfires, almost-love, and boys who confused attention with devotion, I realized the real heartbreak of summer wasn’t being chosen. It was abandoning myself...
My freshman fall at Dartmouth, I spent many late nights on eBay. What I was looking for, specifically, was a Barbour jacket, the waxed canvas kind, olive green. It seemed like ever...
Singer/songwriter Tenille Townes reflects on loss, self-reclamation, and creative independence in “The Return of Int...
In life, people encounter many experiences, such as forming lifelong friendships and discovering new interests. Education is no different, and everyone needs some semblance of it a...
This article guides on the Stanford supplemental essays for the upcoming 2025-2026 admissions cycle. You will learn how to write a great essay and find tips to personalise it with...
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...
In Nicole Krauss’s short story, “The Young Painters,” readers encounter a narrator who is struggling to come to terms with the The post The ethics of storytelling appeared first on...
Old notebooks may seem useless once they are filled, but they often carry memories that new pages cannot replace. When I flip through an old notebook, I find rough handwriting, cro...
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...
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