One aspect of writing I’ve stumbled over time and time again is producing effective endings to my short-form memoir pieces…
CRAFT: Bring It On Home- Techniques to Crafting Endings by Anita Gill
Category: Articles
Review: A Certain Loneliness by Sandra Gail Lambert
A Certain Loneliness is a memoir that circles queerness, disability, independence, and the human struggle to connect.
Review: The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet: A Memoir by Kim Adrian
Adrian writes her memoir as a glossary, starting with A and sharing her story though short vignettes….
Review: Us Girls by Rachael J. Hughes
When Hughes is 17 and still hasn’t gotten her period, she goes to a doctor who tells her she doesn’t have a uterus…
WRITING LIFE: Writing Partners – An Essay on Rhizomatic Being by Jeanette Brown
Some writing absolutely must be done alone. Hemingway said it perhaps most famously, but Kristina Moriconi gave the idea her own spin in this very column this past July.
CRAFT: Visual Creative Nonfiction Forms – A Look at the Concrete Essay by Nicole Breit
The concrete essay is a sub-genre of the visual essay that uses typography to embed a shape or pattern into the piece itself….
Review: Secrets We Kept: Three Women of Trinidad by Krystal A. Sital
Krystal A Sital’s Secrets We Kept: Three Women of Trinidad reads like the best kind of novel: at once engrossing, vivid, rich in character, sound, taste, and smell.
Review: To the Moon and Back: A Childhood Under the Influence by Lisa Kohn
To the Moon and Back: A Childhood Under the Influence is a riveting tale of a young woman’s survival in—and out—of a religious cult in the 1970s
Review: Algiers, Third World Capital: Freedom Fighters, Revolutionaries, Black Panthers by Elaine Mokhtefi
[Elaine] loved the American idea of France, but…her experience was that of Colonialism and racism, the very problems she meant to leave behind in the United States.
CRAFT: Lessons From Academic Writing, Translated to Creative Writing by Amy Evrard
I’ve gained some important takeaways in my switch from academic writing to creative nonfiction writing…
