They said it wasn’t bodies. The adults. The teachers. The ones who were supposed to know.
Bodies by Peter Cohen
They said it wasn’t bodies. The adults. The teachers. The ones who were supposed to know.
Bodies by Peter Cohen
Death and Barbers by William F. Schulz
Portsmouth Street by Deanna Benjamin
To the Little Girl Crying in the Snow at the Corner of Cascade and West 24th Street by Clayton Bradshaw-Mittal
Death and Barbers by William F. Schulz
Paul Milligan was buried at the very hour he was supposed to be cutting my hair.
Portsmouth Street by Deanna Benjamin
For years, I would tell my friends …. how my mother prayed,
To the Little Girl Crying in the Snow at the Corner of Cascade and West 24th Street by Clayton Bradshaw-Mittal
My dog is pulling too hard on his leash, and I’m half-walking, half-slipping….
CREATIVE NONFICTION
Bodies by Peter Cohen
Wild Horses by Derek Maiolo
At sixteen, I stand before the mirror in my room, door locked, practicing.
Portsmouth Street by Deanna Benjamin
For years, I would tell my friends …. how my mother prayed,
Death and Barbers by William F. Schulz
Paul Milligan was buried at the very hour he was supposed to be cutting my hair.
FL-110 by Ross Flournoy
The room is stuffy — almost suffocating. It’s a few degrees too warm and there’s nary a window in sight….
Processing by Sarah Barbo Nielsen
“I hope we aren’t late. We can’t be late.”
Night Sonata by Miriam Mandel Levi
I’d never told my mother that I love her, and she’d never told me.
House Music by Betsy Boyd
“Ay, Edward will use women…honorably!” proclaims my 88-year-old dad…
To the Little Girl Crying in the Snow at the Corner of Cascade and West 24th Street by Clayton Bradshaw-Mittal
My dog is pulling too hard on his leash, and I’m half-walking, half-slipping….
ARTICLES & COLUMNS
INTERVIEW: Maddie Ballard, author of Patchwork: A Sewist’s Diary
Patchwork is Maddie Ballard’s debut memoir, a collection of essays structured around the making of seventeen garments.
INTERVIEW: Cindy Eastman, Editor of Grief Like Yours: A Story Collection of Life After Loss
…talking to Cindy Eastman was like talking to a good friend…
INTERVIEW: Kerry Neville, Author of Momma May Be Mad
One day an irresponsible psychiatrist labeled her “hopeless,” and Neville… walked out of his office determined to prove him wrong.
INTERVIEW: Kim Danielson author of Piece by Piece: A Life Remembered through Things Lost
Piece by Piece looks at not just things, but the psychological and emotional reasons why it hurts so much to lose them
REVIEW: Trying: A Memoir by Chloe Caldwell
On its surface, this is a memoir about the time Caldwell spent “trying” for a baby, but as with all the best memoirs, it’s so much more than that.
REVIEW: Ghosts of Distant Trees by Erica Watson
There are books that understand something fundamental about place, not just as backdrop…but as a living force that shapes us.
REVIEW: Just Another Meat-Eating Dirtbag by Michael Anthony and Chai Simone
I cracked open Just Another Meat-Eating Dirtbag without preconceived notions of what a graphic memoir could or should be
REVIEW: Black Genius: Essays on an American Legacy by Tre Johnson
..Tre writes about… about the ways his families and communities have created joy despite everything in America that works to tamp that joy down.”
CRAFT: The Scientific (Memoir) Method by Sarah Boon
Science memoir is an important sub-genre of memoir, and has a lot to offer readers.
CRAFT: Writing with Pictures by E.H. Jacobs
As a writer, I fancy myself a wordsmith, but visual and spatial abilities are areas in which I have never been skilled.
