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Meaningful, Memorable… and BriefBy Heather Sellers I teach a course in the craft of brief forms—micro memoir, flash fiction, prose poetry. The course fills...
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Brevity’s Latest Craft Essays: “Why Trans Flash?” and “Against Being Good”Yesterday, Brevity launched its special issue on Transgender, Gender-Nonconforming, and Gender Expansive experience. The issue...
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Brevity’s 75th Issue: Transgender, Gender-Nonconforming, and Gender-Expansive ExperienceAnnouncing Brevity’s 75th issue, available to read on our site as of this morning! This themed special issue features essays by writers Lee...
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How Did It Really Happen?By Tamara Dean A “vivid and continuous dream” wrote the late John Gardner, author of The Art of Fiction and On Becoming a...
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My Editor Ghosted MeAnd I’m At a Loss for Words By Fredricka Maister In June, my editor, Jessica, wrote, “Just wanted to let you know that I’m...
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The Unexpected Blahs of Post-Publishing BluesBy Kathy Wagner I never thought I’d write a book. Sure, I daydreamed about it; I imagined myself flustered by Oprah’s effusive...
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Too Vast for Words: Writing Prompts for Large SubjectsThe essay is a grapple, a cheerfully desperate attempt to drape words on thoughts or emotions mostly too vast for words....
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Moving Beyond ResistanceBy Elizabeth Fletcher I have a confession: I hate sitting down to write. When I overcome that not-so-small hurdle and begin...
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Law & Order (And Your Memoir)By Allison K Williams When producer Dick Wolf created the first of the long-running Law & Order family of TV series, he split...
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Five Reasons to Incorporate Food into Your Writing This YearBy Jessica Kehinde Ngo Everyone has New Year’s resolutions they’re newly embracing or already breaking. If you’re like many...
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How Chronic Pain Changed My Writing ProcessBy Heather Sweeney When I first started writing, I was very particular. I needed either complete silence or music with no lyrics...
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How It Feels to Be FreeBy Barbara Phillips In 2018, I realized after reading Kiese Laymon’s Heavy , a universally lauded memoir, that my writing came...
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Exploring the Memoirist’s Creative SoulOn the occasion of memoirist Sue William Silverman’s new craft guide, Acetylene Torch Songs: Writing True Stories to Ignite the Soul ,...
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Wild Creativity: Breaking the Rules to Build a Creative ProcessBy Megan Baxter It’s dark here this time of year. The sun barely clears the pines. But the moon is brilliant on the snow and...
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Why Writing Your Memoir is Good for UsBy Jessica J. Hill My client recently sent me a link to an article by Arthur Brooks from The Atlantic titled, “Why You Maybe...
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What Grey’s Anatomy Taught Me About Finding My Readersby Amanda Le Rougetel I completed my course-based master’s program in communication, spending weeks researching a long paper and...
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A Letter to My TeacherBy Marion Karian Dear Miss Yowell I wish you were here now to receive this letter as there are things I have always dreamed of...
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Birthing a Book in a Time of WarBy Jennifer Lang Thirty-two days after Places We Left Behind: a memoir-in-miniature launched, everything that is my greatest...
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Heartbreak, Loss, and Writing in Gmail: It’s Always SomethingBy Rae Pagliarulo This past summer, I attended a week-long writing workshop in Austria. It was a scary prospect – I had not...
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8 Ways to Become Fierce on the PageBy Sage Cohen Photo by The Weaver House The difference between good writing and unforgettable writing is specificity—which...
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Angels of ChristmasBy Felicia Magliula The Kingston ReStore looks like someone raided my boomer mother-in-law’s garage and donated a generation’s...
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An Open Letter to Your Family and Friends This Holiday SeasonBy Heidi Croot On a sunny October afternoon last year, my 33-year-old cousin told me his recovery program involved group writing,...
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What I Learned About Writing From Donkey KongBy Wendy Swift My secret passion for Donkey Kong started when I bought my husband a Super Nintendo off eBay. It was his 70th...
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Sister Arts: Three Ways to Write About a PaintingBy Elissa Greenwald Ekphrastic writing offers us inspiration through art forms such as music, dance, or architecture, but the...
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Anchoring a Memoir in a Tumultuous TimeAN INTERVIEW WITH JOAN GELFAND Joan Gelfand By Christine Young Forthcoming on January 16th, 2024 is Outside Voices: A Memoir...
