It Started with a List: CRAFTING A HELIX POEM, a Poetry Craft Essay by Eileen Toomey
Category Craft Essays
THE GENEROUS ACT OF PUBLISHING DRAFTS, a Poetry Craft Essay by Abbie Kiefer
HOW I’M RECALIBRATING FOR THE THIRD AGE, A Creative Nonfiction Craft Essay by Elizabeth Bird
WRITING A MEMOIR PARTLY ABOUT A PERSON I NEVER MET, A Craft Essay by Carole Duff
SOMETIMES A REVISION REALLY IS A RE-VISION, a Craft Essay by Elizabeth Stone
WRITING TIMELY FICTION, a Craft Essay by Laura Leigh Morris
METAPHOR AS SEDUCTION, a Craft Essay by Henrietta Goodman
WHAT CONSULTING A PSYCHIC DID FOR MY MEMOIR—AND FOR ME, a Craft Essay by Ona Gritz
DETAILS, DETAILS, DETAILS: A Writing Tip by Beth Kephart
NO SURPRISE FOR THE WRITER? WHAT A RELIEF FOR ME, a Craft Essay by David Galef
ROOTED IN THE PLACE YOU KNOW, a Craft Essay by Bradley Sides
I TOOK INSTRUCTIONS FROM MY HANDS, a craft essay by Beth Kephart
A CRAFT CHAT WITH SUE MELL, by Andrea Caswell
THE USES OF ANAPHORA in Jason Schneiderman’s Poems “Anger” and “Star Dust” by Adrie Rose
MYSTERY, MISCARRIAGE and MENDING, a Craft Essay by Kelly DuMar
Navigating Back: Stargazing and the Threat of AI, a Craft Essay by Scott Hurd
THE FICTION MULTIVERSE, or What Happens Next. Or next, or next… a craft essay by John Fried
ON AUTOBIOGRAPHIA: YOURS, MINE, AND OURS, a craft essay by Ian Clay Sewall
FROM DRAWER TO BOOKSTORE IN JUST TWENTY-FOUR YEARS: The Long and Worthy Journey to Publication by Ona Gritz
CENTER OF AN IMAGINARY WORLD: Place in Fiction, a craft essay by Mandira Pattnaik
THIRTEEN POTSHOTS AT THE PROSE POEM, a Craft Essay by Mike James
GROWING SEASONS: On Plants and Poetry, a craft essay by Luiza Flynn-Goodlett
SHOW, THEN TELL: Crafting Fiction with Alive Exposition by Grace Evans
A LESSON FROM MY THIRD-GRADE SELF: On Writing from the Heart, a Craft Essay by Vivian Conan
COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS: on Lewis Hyde’s Advice for Creativity, and How I Became an Artist in the Modern World, a craft essay by Geoff Watkinson
WANTED: TWO WRITERS MUSE ON THE ART OF SAYING NO by Beth Kephart and Stephanie Weaver
REAL ROT: My Newfound Impatience with Antiheroes, a Craft Essay by Tom Gammarino
HARNESSING WILDNESS: THE PRACTICE OF POETIC LEAPS , a Craft Essay by Kari Ann Ebert
BUILDING BOATS, WRITING POEMS A Craft Essay by James Diaz
THE ELEPHANT OF SILENCE, a poetry craft essay by John Wall Barger
YOU ARE A POET (Even When You Aren’t Writing) A Craft Essay by Mark Danowsky
SPECULATIVE MEMOIR: MAKING THE INVISIBLE VISIBLE a craft essay by Laraine Herring
RESEARCH AND WRITING: The Warp and Woof of Historical Fiction, a craft essay by Terry Roberts
EMBRACE THE NELSON: Going Beyond the Pretty Narrative Voice, a craft essay by Dena Soffer
NOTES TO A YOUNG WRITER: On (Re)writing, (Re)vision, Editing, and Other Random Terms, a Craft Essay by Gayathri Prabhu
THE FUNNY IN MEMOIR: Alison Bechdel, Dinty W. Moore, and Trey Popp, a craft essay by Beth Kephart
RESONANT PLACES: Houses We Live in, Homes that Live in Our Writing, a Fiction Craft Essay by Ellen Prentiss Campbell
MAKING THE READER FEEL SOMETHING. PLEASE. SHOW AND TELL, A Craft Essay by Shuly Xóchitl Cawood
QUEER (PRIVATE) EYE: Crafting a New Hardboiled Sleuth, a Craft Essay by Margot Douaihy
AVOIDING / EMBRACING: Strategies for Writers with Anxiety Disorders A Craft Essay by Bailey Bridgewater
What I Learned from Jennifer Egan’s Use of Sensory Detail, a Craft Essay by Sandy Smith
SISTERHOOD: How the Books we Both Read Helped Me Write My Sister’s Life into Fiction, a Craft Essay by Jane Rosenberg LaForge
A BOOK BY ANY OTHER NAME: ON TITLES AND DATING: A Craft Essay by Melinda Scully
HOW WRITING FICTION HELPS ME—AND MAYBE YOU—DEAL WITH PAST TRAUMA, a craft essay by Kelly Fordon
THE BIG WARM HOUSE An Essay on the Art of Becoming a Writer by Emma Sloley
THE PROBLEM WITH SURFING AND WRITING: a Craft Essay by Nate House
ON REVISION: From story to STORY, With a Little Help from a Doomed Vole and Robert McKee, a Craft Essay by Lea Page
FROM PLAY TO PERIL AND BEYOND: HOW WRITING CONSTRAINTS UNLEASH TRUER TRUTHS, A Nonfiction Craft Essay by Jeannine Ouellette
LISTEN, STORY, TELL. (NOT ALWAYS TELL) A Nonfiction Craft Essay by Aileen Hunt
INTO THE WOODS: What Fairy Tale Settings Can Teach Us About Fiction Writing, a Craft Essay by Dana Kroos
