Reviewed by Melissa Oliviera When the lyric essay first confirmed up on my radar a number of years in the past, my early studying concerned The Subsequent American Essay sequence in […]
Throw open new storytelling doorways and let in some air By Dinty W. Moore There are any variety of causes we get caught whereas writing a memoir, not the least […]
By Lucinda Guard Crofton The persistent noise grows louder and louder, smashing my dream into bits. Slowly, the conclusion dawns on me that it’s my alarm insisting I stand up […]
Reviewed by Brian Watson No Offense: A Memoir in Essays, by Jackie Domenus (ELJ Editions; February 2025) is the kind of memoir I believed had gone out of fashion — […]
By Bernadette Geyer My writing initiatives spawn and multiply in varied laptop folders, or huddle clipped collectively on my desk topped with a Publish-it observe that claims “For enhancing.” There […]
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By Deborah Carr Anne Lamott first coined the time period “shitty first draft” in her 1994 ebook on writing, Hen by Hen. Her intent was for writers to free themselves […]
By Amy Shea I didn’t got down to write a researched narrative nonfiction ebook. I’d spent over a decade writing largely private essays and artistic nonfiction. However once I felt […]
A few years in the past, in an grownup writing workshop, the trainer requested us to profile a father or mother. On the time, I used to be struggling in […]
By Margaret Anne Mary Moore Seeing my Google Doc’s “Final Opened” timestamp, I cringed. Although my essay-in-progress was a chunk I used to be enthusiastic about, seven months had […]