The official text comes a few minutes later…. Go inside now; avoid windows.
Avoid Windows by Michael Gutierrez
The official text comes a few minutes later…. Go inside now; avoid windows.
The Telling by Melissa Fraterrigo
It was a simple black velvet cocktail dress with long sleeves and a deep V in the front and back.
She is Crying by Allya Yourish
I am trying to speak sense into a seven-year-old.
Highway Arithmetic by Chuck Rybak
My father is the compass that bleeds. “Turn left here. Another left up ahead.”
A Storybook Ending by Maddie Ramsell
I am supposed to admit I was reckless.
CREATIVE NONFICTION
Avoid Windows by Michael Gutierrez
Highway Arithmetic by Chuck Rybak
My father is the compass that bleeds. “Turn left here. Another left up ahead.”
The Postpartum Survey by Stephanie M. Wytovich
My husband carries our one-week-old into the waiting room.
The Telling by Melissa Fraterrigo
It was a simple black velvet cocktail dress with long sleeves and a deep V in the front and back.
The Shipwreck by Anne Giordano
I am determined to reach the shipwreck before we leave.
A Storybook Ending by Emily Madison
I am supposed to admit I was reckless.
How You Become a Girl by Lauren L. Cisneros
You are ten and your gender is fat.
She is Crying by Allya Yourish
I am trying to speak sense into a seven-year-old.
ARTICLES & COLUMNS
INTERVIEW: Suzanne Cope, Author of Women of War: The Italian Assassins, Spies, and Couriers Who Fought the Nazis
We would call them feminists today. I don’t know if all four would have used that exact term, but they all really fought for women’s rights.
INTERVIEW: Shannon Luders-Manuel, Author of The One Who Loves You
I had my black family and my white family, and I talk about the black side of town and the white side of town.
INTERVIEW: Caroline Eden, Author of Cold Kitchen: A Year of Culinary Travels
For this memoir, I wanted to bring the reader into my home, and to Edinburgh where I live.
INTERVIEW: Jill Bialosky, Author of The End is the Beginning: A Personal History of My Mother
As a writer and a reader, I’m searching for truth, honesty, ways of making sense of difficult experiences.
REVIEW: Deep House: The Gayest Love Story Ever Told by Jeremy Atherton Lin
Lin unleashes the full breadth of his research skills, unraveling the history of same-sex unions and the marriage equality movement…
REVIEW: Son of a Bird by Nin Andrews
“Son of a bird” was what Andrews’s Black nanny called her when she’d been naughty.
REVIEW: It All Felt Impossible: 42 Years in 42 Essays by Tom McAllister
McAllister pulls off something wonderful, connecting ordinary life moments to the larger political and cultural perspectives of the time….
REVIEW: Eminent Jews: Bernstein, Brooks, Freidan, Mailer by David Denby
Fairly presenting the event-laden, controversy-crammed lives of this talented quartet…is a task that would intimidate…any sensible biographer.
From the Archives: A Mother’s Day Round-Up — Creative Nonfiction About Moms by D. Nicholas Penglase
Five creative nonfiction pieces which explore the diverse range of relationships and experiences we have with our mothers.
CRAFT: Now What? How Patience & Building Relationships Can Pay Off for CNF Writers by Angel R. Ackerman
Writing is as much about waiting as it is about words.
2025 FLASH CONTEST FINALISTS
Say the Word by Annamaria Formichella
Two neighborhood girls arrive. A few years older than me, they’re here to smoke and look cool…
Greed by Tori Walters
I want the shorts, the sweatshirts, the hairbands, the half empty packets of gum…
Ghouls by Hillary Wentworth
That earthy smell, cotton starched stiff by the sun. A sheet on the line.
