Kazim Ali begins his memoir, “I’ve always had a hard time answering the question, ‘Where are you from?’”
REVIEW: Northern Light: Power, Land and the Memory of Water by Kazim Ali
Category: Issues
REVIEW: Get Thee to a Bakery: Essays by Rick Bailey
Bailey, a retired writing professor, weaves multiple themes and anecdotes through each of his essays…
REVIEW: The Best of Brevity, edited by Dinty W. Moore and Zoe Bossiere
Brevity’s reputation as a leading publication in creative nonfiction is evidenced over and over again….
REVIEW: Swing: A Memoir of Doing It All by Ashleigh Renard
Attending sex clubs was far from habitual for Renard and her husband.
INTERVIEW: Nefertiti Austin, Author of Motherhood So White: A Memoir of Race, Gender, and Parenting in America
Interview by Lara LillibridgeMotherhood So White. That’s what Nefertiti, a single African American woman, discovered when she decided she wanted to adopt a Black baby boy out of the foster care system. Eager to finally join the motherhood ranks, Nefertiti was shocked when people started asking her why she wanted to adopt a “crack baby”…
REVIEW: Selling the Farm by Debra Di Blasi
The memoir blends poetry and prose in a way that makes you want to mark every line to revisit and unpack later.
INTERVIEW: Gene Luen Yang, author and artist, Dragon Hoops
Gene Luen Yang has been writing and drawing comics since he was a kid.
INTERVIEW: Leslie Lehr, Author of A Boob’s Life
Author Leslie Lehr wants to talk about boobs.
CRAFT: Leaning Into the “Creative” Part of CNF by Lori Yeghiayan Friedman
In addition to my questionable memory for details, I have little concrete information to work with when it comes to family stories.
WRITING LIFE: Creating a Book of Delights by Deborah Lindsay Williams
The delight notebook helps us let go of all that is fraught about writing.
