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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...
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.
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 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...
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...
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...
“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 »
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...
There is a specific kind of silence that falls over a room when someone tells a story that is true. I don’t mean factually true, though it…Continue reading on Medium »
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...
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...
Good writing comes from boundless imagination and strong empathy. The post Where Good Writing Comes From appeared first on The Good Men Project.
“Originality is nothing other than the deepest honesty.”Continue reading on Go Into The Story »
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 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,...
Memoirs, histories, true crime, investigations and much more.
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 Jessica Handler “We all like ourselves pretty well,” I say when I’m leading a writing workshop (hoping that everyone in the workshop does indeed like themselves pretty well) “ex...
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...
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...
“To me, the big nut to crack is to how to tell a story, what’s the right way to tell a particular story.”Continue reading on Go Into The Story »
“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...
How Our Telling Shapes What the Past Becomes By Jen Gippel My son lives in Colorado and I live in Australia, so visits are rare and cherished. On my last trip to see him, we hiked...
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