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Fiction is often where we come to read and enjoy interesting stories about life, its ups and downs, its strange turns and unexpected possibilities. But fiction, even at its most im...
The author discusses his story “Appeasement, Ohio.”
By Dinty W. Moore Anne Lamott’s advice on writing about other folks in our lives is so often quoted that it has become iconic: itself: “If people wanted you to write warmly about t...
By Ethan Gilsdorf One of the more stunning essays I’ve read in recent memory, “Math 1619,” begins: Show all of your work clearly and thoroughly. You may use an approved calculator,...
The object is never the subject. The object is the lens. By Marvin Garbeh Davis, Sr. I did not set out to write a memoir. I set out to write about my stomach. Specifically, the com...
A mother, a son, and the brutal telling that ended usContinue reading on The Narrative Arc »
DAYS AFTER ONE OF THE MOST TRAGIC EVENTS IN AMERICAN HISTORY, WAS IT THE WRONG ARTICLE AT THE WRONG TIME? By Ronnie Blair Sometimes what we write serves a greater purpose than what...
Not a crowd. Not no one. One person.Continue reading on Medium »
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By Sarah Curtis In the spring of last year, I mailed my father a copy of my manuscript before my publisher sent it to press. Since it was about him, I thought he deserved the final...
By Grace Hwang Lynch Writing a memoir is a tug of war between the desire to make your inner world known and the urge to filter your raw, complicated experiences through prose. Year...
By Kellie Kreiss The latest issue of Brevity Magazine is live, and some of our authors are writing for The Brevity Blog about their craft. When I first started writing micro-fictio...
An essay can have benefits beyond those that come from publication By Elizabeth Roper Marcus Shortly after taking up writing in my late 40s, I finished a memoir piece I was proud o...
By Maria Meitern I never thought I would write a memoir. But my head was overcrowded with too many thoughts, places and former versions of myself still walking around in there, ref...
The memoir of the abuse Kearney suffered by George Gibney was a bestseller. Her latest writings delve into another area of her life, and she'll be reading at Cork International Sho...
By Jan Hogle Only my dad left stories for the rest of us. He wrote about growing up in Syracuse and Binghamton, New York, playing his accordion for money as a teenager, meeting my...
By Amy L. Bernstein First-person POV may well be the most complicated point of view. When you build an entire story around the “I” voice, you commit to installing the reader deep i...
“Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery. The adventure is a metaphysical one: it is a way of approaching life indirectly, of acquiring a total rather than a partial vi...
“Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery. The adventure is a metaphysical one: it is a way of approaching life indirectly, of acquiring a total rather than a partial vi...
by Danya Kaufmann I spent a couple weeks in Dharamshala one summer, up in the lush green mountains of Northern India. The village was enveloped by a magical mist, and I was in heav...
By Huck Smith The first draft of the essay about firing Marcus was written in “you.” You take the promotion. You tell yourself it’s a good decision. You don’t notice the room closi...
When the muckraking journalist Barbara Ehrenreich died in 2022, her author son, Ben, decided to write a story every day to work through his emotions. The 85 pieces collected here a...
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