INTO THE WOODS: What Fairy Tale Settings Can Teach Us About Fiction Writing, a Craft Essay by Dana Kroos
Category Craft Essays
BUILDING MY AUTHOR PLATFORM WITHOUT A SMARTPHONE A Craft Essay by Mallory McDuff
THREE SECRETS TO CREATE THE WRITING LIFE YOU WANT, a craft essay by Lisa Bubert
IN DEFENSE OF TELLING, a craft essay by Scott Bane
IT’S CALLED A DIRTY WORD: How a Contract Gig Changed the Course of My Book, a craft essay by Steph Auteri
THE BELL DINGS FOR ME: On Writing with a Typewriter, a craft essay by Toby Juffre Goode
YOU DON’T NEED AN ANNA MARCH IN YOUR WRITING LIFE to Know About Getting Burned, a Craft Essay by Anthony J. Mohr
SHOWING AND TELLING: Seven Ways to Help Your Writing Breathe, A Craft Essay by Billy Dean
FOUND IN TRANSLATION: How my Memoir of Life Overseas Turned into a Novella, a Craft Essay by Ele Pawelski
WORKING FOR SURPRISE: On Running, Prescriptive Teaching, and the Language of First Drafts A Poetry Craft Essay by Devin Kelly
POETRY AS PRACTICE How Paying Attention Helps Us Improve Our Writing in the Age of Distraction A Craft Essay by Scott Edward Anderson
MY WALK ON THE BEACH WITH ANTON A Craft Essay on Connecting the Body to the Brain by Billy Dean
IS MEMOIR AUTOMATICALLY THERAPEUTIC? A Craft Essay on Writing About Mental Health by Leslie Lindsay
SHOULD YOU REALLY BE WRITING THAT? A Craft Essay on Writing Diversity in Fiction by Sawyer Lovett
SPYING THROUGH THE KEYHOLE: A Novelist Grows Roots in the Glamorous, Twisted World of V. C. Andrews by Emma Sloley
THROUGH GIRL-COLORED GLASSES A Craft Essay on Gender and Writing by Dina Honour
WRITING THE SUPERHERO POEM, a craft essay by Lynn Levin
FIVE STAGES OF GRIEF FOR WRITERS When Dealing with Negative Feedback, a craft essay by Floyd Cheung
TURNING OUT THE LIGHTS: On Cuba, Writing, and the Ecstasy of Planetary Topography, a craft essay by Tim Weed
DON’T BE A DRONE: Manipulating the Reader Through Pitch and Pace, A Poetry Craft Essay by Grant Clauser
TIME HEALS, EVEN YOUR DRAFTS: Three Key Realizations for Revising Your Novel, A Craft Essay by Wendy Fox
LIES I TELL MY STUDENTS, a creative nonfiction craft essay by Liz Stephens
CHILD’S PLAY: How Creative Play Helped Unlock My Nonfiction Writing, a craft essay by Megan Culhane Galbraith
ACROSS THE DIVIDE AND BACK: How Writing Poetry Is Changing My Nonfiction, a craft essay by Vivian Wagner
SOMEONE IS WRITING THE REAL WEST VIRGINIA, a craft essay by Mary Ann Bragg
WHERE TO BEGIN: An Investigation into First Lines, a Craft Essay by Michael Overa
INTENT TO WITHHOLD, a Craft Essay by Alisa A. Gaston
STOP BREATHING AND JUST WRITE: National Novel Writing Month, a craft essay by Claire Rudy Foster
BECOMING AN OUTLAW Or: How My Short Fiction Became a Memoir, a craft essay by Andrea Jarrell
BEST READER, WORST ENEMY, a Craft Essay by Claire Rudy Foster
EMOTION IS NOT PLOT: Using Detachment to Create Powerful Fiction, a craft essay by Claire Rudy Foster
IN THE MINES, A Craft Essay on Creative Nonfiction by Linnie Greene
THE EMPATHY MACHINE, Part Two by Kelly McQuain text version
SEEKING CHILDHOOD by Nathaniel Popkin
THE MAN ON THE COUCH AND THE MAN WHO SPEAKS POEMS by J.G. McClure
WHY I WRITE Or, It’s The End of the World as We Know It and I Feel (Sorta) Fine by J.G. McClure
IN PRAISE OF MISTRANSLATIONS by J.G. McClure
THANK YOU, JUDGE JUDY by Jen Karetnick
CROSSING BORDERS IN FICTION by Ellen Meeropol
CONFESSIONS OF A FICTION EDITOR by George Dila
LEAVING APPALACHIA: Overlap in Poetic Landscapes by Julia Paganelli
THE POET’S “I”: DISTANCE THROUGH FIRST-PERSON by Katie Rensch
APPROACHING BORDERS by Nathaniel Popkin
TRAPPED IN THE ALPHABET by Niels Hav
CROSSING THE EMOTIONAL LANDSCAPE: ARCHER, BOB’S BURGERS, AND CONTEMPORARY POETRY by J.G. McClure
RETHINKING THE SHITTY FIRST DRAFT by George Dila
THAT DEXTEROUS MARGIN by Michael McFee
THE ART OF DESPAIR by Allison Seay
TO STAY OR TO GO INTO EXILE: Milosz and Szymborska by Niels Hav
IN A SPRAY OF SPARKS: Emotion, Sincerity, and the “Skittery Poem of Our Moment” by J.G. McClure