creative nonfiction
When Structure Sets You Free
Essayist and professor Nell Boeschenstein discusses how establishing structure can liberate your writing.
Using the Fallacy of Memory to Create Effective Memoir
Understand the 7 sins of memory, and how to use these sins to convey greater meaning and truth in your stories.
The Yearning to Learn From Our Lives
The personal essay can provide an artful account of earned insight often more useful than years of therapeutic work.
Getting an Anthology Published: Q&A with Margaret McMullan
Publishers rarely see any money in anthologies and frequently reject them. But one author was still able to find a home for her project.
Why Is There a Surge in Memoir? Is It a Good Thing?
Flickr / Meni's Style and A S O ! Today's guest post is by Shirley Hershey Showalter, who has been