The challenges of maintaining a writing life while parenting are the focus of an essay collection that also is a meditation on the writing craft.
REVIEW: Writing While Parenting by Ben Berman
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REVIEW: Conversations with Birds by Priyanka Kumar
The book offers a reflection on the natural world and examines the experience of birding on the author’s life and identity.
WRITING LIFE: Ode to My Notebook by Ellen Frank Bayer
There is no comment, no judgment and no frowns, only a blank page with blue lines.
INTERVIEW: Alice Hattrick, Author of Ill Feelings
Ill Feelings tells the story of how women are often labeled “hysterical” and waved off by the medical profession.
CRAFT: Biased Language in CNF: Crafting with a Careful Eye by Jennifer Chong Schneider
As a biracial writer…I often struggle with how to write about race: my race, my parents’, their families’…
WRITING LIFE: Stuckness by Brett Ann Stanciu
I was way more broke beyond a car that wouldn’t start.
INTERVIEW: Tanya Frank, Author of Zig-Zag Boy: A Memoir of Madness & Motherhood
Zig-Zag Boy by Tanya Frank is a collective book, giving voice to all families who have experienced this often terrifying and jarring experience.
REVIEW: Dragons in my Classroom: A Teacher’s Memoir by Barbara Kennard
The challenges of a teaching career in the United States and in England are explored in this richly detailed memoir.
REVIEW: Drawing Breath: Essays on Writing, the Body, and Loss by Gayle Brandeis
Essays exploring life’s losses, transformations and the challenges of being a memoirist comprise a graceful and lyrical collection.
REVIEW: The Preventorium: A Memoir by Susan Annah Currie
A long-forgotten American health crisis caused by tuberculosis is examined in a memoir of a childhood forever changed by the disease.
