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Connecting the Threads—A Memoir in EssaysAN INTERVIEW WITH KELLY MCMASTERS By Brianna Avenia-Tapper Kelly McMasters Best-selling author Kelly McMasters’s fourth...
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Writing Our Flaws, Our Failures, and Our Glorious ShineIn his newest book, Death Prefers the Minor Keys , a series of brief prose meditations, many first composed on the backs of...
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Writing Isn’t SafeNo publishing without penalties. By Allison K Williams A writer asks: My book is controversial, and publishing could open me...
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They Walk, They Talk! Tips for Effective CharacterizationBy Dinty W. Moore Any novelist with a modicum of craft knowledge or experience on the page understands the importance of bringing...
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Calling My MusesBy Sue Sesnon Salt As if in a grande cathedral waiting to hear the voice of God, I sit on my balcony longing for a word, a phrase,...
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Brevity’s Latest Craft EssaysBrevity’s Fall 2023 issue launched yesterday, and with it three fascinating new craft essays. Rather than simply describing...
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Brevity Launches New Issue: With Unexpected BirdsBrevity launched a new issue this morning, with an unplanned avian theme drifting through many of the essays. The birds are...
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The New Social Media RulesBy Allison K Williams Social media is dead. Curated by airbrushed aspirational lives, fattened with frank capitalism, political...
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Hard Silences, Hard Stories: A Memoirist’s Difficult JourneySuzanne Strempek Shea interviews Melanie Brooks Sitting in summer shorts while reading Melanie Brooks’ heart-enveloping memoir A...
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Looking Back, Moving Forward: Writing Well About TraumaBy Jessica Handler Two hatboxes covered in beautiful malachite-green marbled paper, big around as snare drums, sit high on a...
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The Writing Group: A FableBy Lea Page The usual five gathered around a table at a local restaurant: Novelist, Historian, and Fabulist—all men—and Poet and...
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The Best Editing Advice: Read and Record Your Work Out LoudBy Charlotte Maya The best editing advice I received when I was writing my memoir seemed horrifying at first. I was taking a...
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Writing as Therapy Doesn’t Mean Bad WritingBy Nancy McCabe “She’s just writing for therapy,” we sometimes say, meaning that the work seems self-indulgent or self-pitying or...
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Crónica: The Platypus of ProseAN INTERVIEW WITH JAVIER SINAY Javier Sinay is an award-winning author and journalist based in Buenos Aires. In 2015 he won the...
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How to Submit to Contests: Behind-the-Scenes at the American Literary ReviewBy Anna Chotlos Submitting to contests can be a fantastic way to get your writing out in the world. Beyond the prize and the...
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Anecdotes Are Great for Cocktail Parties: Essays Must Do MoreBy Lisa Rosenberg Once, I almost lost my dress in front of the president of the United States. That’s become one of my go-to...
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Finding the Mini in MemoirAN INTERVIEW WITH JENNIFER LANG By Lisa Rizzo Jennifer Lang Writer and teacher Jennifer Lang’s memoir, Places We Left...
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How to Shine Glory on Chapter 2By Heidi Croot Prologues and first chapters are such prima donnas. All the attention flows their way. They even get their own...
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How’s This Hollywood Writers and Actors Strike Going for You?By Karen Rizzo I saw an acquaintance at a coffee shop the other day—a funny screenwriter I worked with briefly—and his partner,...
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Discovering the Why of Your Essay Collectionby Patrice Gopo In the early days of the pandemic, words fell from my fingers, returning to me after a time of absence. Several...
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The Grief-Growth Cycle of Being a WriterBy Megan Aronson “I’ve been lost and reclusive of late as I deal with the most recent iteration of my grief-growth cycle,” my...
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Toward the Walrus: Remembering Why You Like WritingBy Lindsey DeLoach Jones Last year I taught creative writing at a residential arts high school for gifted students. My students had...
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The Art of Juggling Simultaneous Projects (or Trust Your Own Process)By Michelle Redo “No one but you will get this right.” I was surprised by the words that slipped out of my mouth as I sat,...
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The Value of NoBy Marjie Alonso I’m taking a course on how to get pieces published. I’m doing this because the longer I’m a full-time writer, the...
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The Future of CNF Writing, Editing and Publishing in a World with AI, Part 2AN INTERVIEW WITH SIL HAMILTON Find Part 1 of this interview here. AAF: Our conversation has focused on OpenAI’s model...
