She said, “Look at what you’re wearing.” As if that had anything to do with it.
Atlas Fledgling by Youssef Biaz
The first one died in my hands an hour after coming home. I mishandled it.
The Race by Jess Phoenix
One foot in front of the other, I trudged over the hill’s crest, reins clutched in one hand. Squinting, I could barely discern a faint light in the general direction…
Traditions of a Mutt by Kira Carson
In 2017, I returned to British Columbia and straight back to work, straight back to the status of regular white girl.
Subtraction by Paula Burke
The summer of 1974, when I was four, Dad shot an intruder breaking into our house at four in the morning.
The Right of Rescission by Carole Vasta Folley
She said, “Look at what you’re wearing.” As if that had anything to do with it.
CREATIVE NONFICTION
The Right of Rescission by Carole Vasta Folley
Boys on Bicycles Holding Hands by Brad Snyder
The boys’ tires rotate in sync, a graceful choreography performed in morning sunlight…
Hello, Columbus by Catherine Lowe
Philip Roth is checking me out on the corner of 80th and Columbus….
Traditions of a Mutt by Kira Carson
In 2017, I returned to British Columbia and straight back to work, straight back to the status of regular white girl.
Again by Hayley Notter
The first time I slept with another woman’s boyfriend, I decided not to think about it.
Subtraction by Paula Burke
The summer of 1974, when I was four, Dad shot an intruder breaking into our house at four in the morning.
Atlas Fledgling by Youssef Biaz
The first one died in my hands an hour after coming home. I mishandled it.
The Race by Jess Phoenix
A few days earlier, I had joined up with a group of other Americans to share the adventure and misery of the world’s longest horse race.
At The One Month Visit by Anne Falkowski
The bandage used to bind Sam’s chest after top surgery lays crumpled on the exam room table.
ARTICLES & COLUMNS
REVIEW: The Braille Encyclopedia: Brief Essays on Altered Sight by Naomi Cohn
The Braille Encyclopedia: Brief Essays on Altered Sight by Naomi Cohn functions as an encyclopedic guided tour through Cohn’s diagnosis and worsening eyesight. Accompanying her on this tour is an unlikely companion, the inventor of braille, Louis Braille. Together Cohn and Braille offer the reader a unique understanding of their lived experiences. Braille, a 19th…
REVIEW: The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir by Edmund White
I wasn’t expecting to laugh and learn my way through something subtitled A Sex Memoir.
REVIEW: Loveland: A Memoir of Love and Fiction by Susan Ostrov
In Loveland, Susan Ostrov’s lived experience converge to challenge traditional boundaries between the academic and the anecdotal.
REVIEW: Immersion: A Linguist’s Memoir by Linda Murphy Marshall
Immersion: A Linguist’s Memoir by Linda Murphy Marshall chronicles decades of the author’s life in learning and working in foreign languages.
CRAFT: Make your Marketing Suit Your Goals by Angel R. Ackerman
As you make the transition from writer to published author, you are faced with a lot of decisions.
REVIEW: Docile: Memoirs of a Not-So-Perfect Asian Girl by Hyeseung Song
Hyeseung is a first-generation American, born to Korean immigrant parents, and struggled with the unique culture shock that can result….
REVIEW: Everywhere the Undrowned by Stephanie Clare Smith
In Everywhere the Undrowned, Stephanie Clare Smith walks us through the summer she spent on her own, at fourteen, in a New Orleans…
REVIEW: Virginia’s Apple: Collected Memoirs by Judith Barrington
Judith Barrington gives readers an up-close, inside look at England’s second-wave feminist movement…
CRAFT: The Secret Ingredient by Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew
Contrary to what writers learn in writing workshops and MFA classes, there really is a single, secret ingredient to creating work that comes alive.
INTERVIEW: Hollay Ghadery, Book Publicist and Author of Fuse: A Memoir
We speak with Hollay Ghadery, a memoirist and Canada-based book publicist about writing, publishing, promotion, and PR.
REVIEW: One of the Boys: Surviving Dartmouth, Family, and the Wilderness of Men by Lynn Lobban
Lynn Lobban her story of breaking through cultural and personal barriers this her feisty and moving memoir.
REVIEW: Rearranged: An Opera Singer’s Facial Cancer and Life Transposed by Kathleen Watt
…dry wit and humor are part of what makes this grueling tale so compelling a read….
REVIEW: The Body Alone: A Lyrical Articulation of Chronic Pain by Nina Lohman
“How much pain can you handle?” Repeated multiple times….this question guides the narrative,
INTERVIEW: Jennifer Lang, Author of Landed: A Yogi’s Memoir in Pieces & Prose
There are so many reasons to love Landed, Jennifer Lang’s second experimental prose memoir.
INTERVIEW: Joanne De Simone, Author of Fall and Recovery: Raising Children with Disabilities through Lessons Learned in Dance
In Fall and Recovery, Joanne De Simone marries her dance story with her mother story,
CRAFT: Supporting the Nonfiction Community by Teaching Book Reviews by Rajpreet Heir
While I can’t single-handedly change publishing’s structural inequities, I can at least support some writers and add my voice to the publishing conversation.
