I would graduate in a few months. I was supposed to be joyous. Yet I was not.
WRITING LIFE: Rejection and Resilience by Jennifer Case
Category: Articles
CRAFT: Striking the Balance: On Showing and Telling by Nicole Breit
Effective storytellers know there’s more to a day’s work than writing a through-line from Point A—inciting incident—to Point B—resolution.
Review: Circadian by Chelsey Clammer
Chelsey Clammer … uses experimental lyric essay forms to explore loss, trauma, and grief…
Review: Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay
Roxane Gay holds nothing back, and you have to appreciate her stark honesty.
Review: Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis
Girl is a tell-it-like-it-is books of the “lies” about her life that Hollis had to face and the ways she overcame them.
Interview: A Q&A With Brian Evenson—author What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Brian Evenson is the author of over a dozen books included Raymond Carver’s What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Bookmarked.
Review: Girlish: Growing Up in a Lesbian Home by Lara Lillibridge
Complicated is an apt description of the family relationships that Lillibridge chronicles in her book.
Review: Maps Are Lines We Draw: A Road Trip through Haiti by Allison Coffelt
Coffelt’s slim, 137-page volume tells the story of her trip to Haiti – a journey ten years in the making.
Review: The Glass Eye: A Memoir by Jeannie Vanasco
What Vanasco does in her book is way more compelling than filling in what she doesn’t know: she experiments with form by shattering the story into shards…
WRITING LIFE: Writing My Way Out by Jonathan Freeman-Coppadge
My writing career peaked at age seven. I had been hunched over my dad’s Apple IIc for weeks, clad in my pajamas…
