The night before my mother died, I sat on a stool beside her bed writing the artist statement for her last show.
Decomposition by Sara Mann
The night before my mother died, I sat on a stool beside her bed writing the artist statement for her…
Flinch by Sonja Livingston
The point was to hide your fear. Feel afraid but don’t flinch.
Cats Gymnastics by Brittany Ackerman
No one had ever had a birthday party like mine. I was allowed to invite ten girls from my fifth-grade…
St. Anthony's Mistake by Olivia Flaherty-Lovy
Last fall, I learned my mother had stopped praying.
Antennae Twitching with Precision by Remi Recchia
Bright lights girl-not-girl examined by nurse in clean clean clean. Looking for cuts, looking for bruises, looking for something unseen.
CREATIVE NONFICTION
Decomposition by Sara Mann
Flinch by Sonja Livingston
The point was to hide your fear. Feel afraid but don’t flinch.
Cats Gymnastics by Brittany Ackerman
No one had ever had a birthday party like mine. I was allowed to invite ten girls from my fifth-grade class to an overnight party at Cats Gymnastics.
St. Anthony’s Mistake by Olivia Flaherty-Lovy
Last fall, I learned my mother had stopped praying.
Antennae Twitching with Precision by Remi Recchia
Bright lights girl-not-girl examined by nurse in clean clean clean. Looking for cuts, looking for bruises, looking for something unseen.
The Ponytail by Wendy Besel Hahn
Alone in the backseat, I studied my three-year-old sister’s golden-brown ringlets…
How to Treat Migraines with Acupuncture by Jennifer Gallo Gaites
Imagine you are a pincushion. A soft landing spot. A tufted gathering place for sharp objects.
In the Senate We Read Dante and I Loved Him by Donovan Dennis
We — the U.S. Senate’s thirty teenage pages—were divided according to our sponsoring senator’s party.
This is a Drill by Katie Burgess
It’s a gray morning close to Halloween when the alarm goes off. We’ve been expecting it.
ARTICLES & COLUMNS
INTERVIEW: L.L. Kirchner, Author of Blissful Thinking
It’s always there—that striving, that like wanting to be on a quest for self-improvement.
INTERVIEW: Liz Kinchen, Author of Light in Bandaged Places
As a lonely girl coming of age in the 1970s, Liz has every reason to believe her 8th-grade teacher is in love with her.
INTERVIEW: Melanie Brooks, Author of A Hard Silence
I wrote this book almost 20 years after my father’s death.
INTERVIEW: Jane Wong, Author of Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City: A Memoir
We speak to Jane Wong about her approach to memoir as a poet, her deliberate reluctance toward resilience, craft as it relates to violence, and more.
INTERVIEW: Alice Carrière, Author of Everything/Nothing/Someone: A Memoir
Alice and Leslie intergenerational trauma, art and architecture, and the mangled psychiatric system in this author interview.
REVIEW: Places We Left Behind: a memoir in miniature by Jennifer Lang
A memoir-in-miniature explores storytelling outside of traditional forms.
REVIEW: The Male Gazed by Manuel Betancourt
The memoir in essays examines how media and celebrities impact perceptions of same-sex desires and identity.
REVIEW: Junk Shop Window: Essays on Myth, Life, and Literature by James J. Patterson
An essay collection marked by lyrical language, honesty, and humor, invites readers to remain open to experience.
WRITING LIFE: Riding the Waves by Zina Zeigler
Will Ms. Procrastination, Ms. Overwhelm, Ms. Imposter Syndrome or Ms. Muse win?
CRAFT: Elevate Your Essays: Writing By Bringing the Interior to the Exterior by Estelle Erasmus
The best way to get into the underlying emotions of a story is to start with action, aka the inciting incident.
