The official text comes a few minutes later…. Go inside now; avoid windows.
Avoid Windows by Michael Gutierrez
The official text comes a few minutes later…. Go inside now; avoid windows.
The Telling by Melissa Fraterrigo
It was a simple black velvet cocktail dress with long sleeves and a deep V in the front and back.
She is Crying by Allya Yourish
I am trying to speak sense into a seven-year-old.
Highway Arithmetic by Chuck Rybak
My father is the compass that bleeds. “Turn left here. Another left up ahead.”
A Storybook Ending by Maddie Ramsell
I am supposed to admit I was reckless.
CREATIVE NONFICTION
Avoid Windows by Michael Gutierrez
Highway Arithmetic by Chuck Rybak
My father is the compass that bleeds. “Turn left here. Another left up ahead.”
The Postpartum Survey by Stephanie M. Wytovich
My husband carries our one-week-old into the waiting room.
The Telling by Melissa Fraterrigo
It was a simple black velvet cocktail dress with long sleeves and a deep V in the front and back.
The Shipwreck by Anne Giordano
I am determined to reach the shipwreck before we leave.
A Storybook Ending by Emily Madison
I am supposed to admit I was reckless.
How You Become a Girl by Lauren L. Cisneros
You are ten and your gender is fat.
She is Crying by Allya Yourish
I am trying to speak sense into a seven-year-old.
ARTICLES & COLUMNS
INTERVIEW: Elissa Altman, Author of Permission: The New Memoirist and the Courage to Create
Elissa Altman shares the creative wisdom she gained from the painful experience of releasing her first memoir, which is a gift to the reader.
INTERVIEW: Marty Ross-Dolen, Author of Always There, Always Gone: A Daughter’s Search for Truth
Told with a poet’s precision for language, and a novelist’s eye for storytelling, Marty Ross-Dolen takes a slightly unconventional approach to this memoir.
INTERVIEW: Bonny Reichert, Author of How to Share An Egg
Amy Fish speaks with Bonny Reichert, author of the culinary memoir, How to Share an Egg: A True Story of Hunger, Love, and Plenty.
REVIEW: Held Together by Rebecca N. Thompson
Rebecca N. Thompson presents a broad spectrum of experiences and a diverse group of women from different backgrounds and nontraditional families.
REVIEW: Human/Animal: A Bestiary in Essays by Amie Souza Reilly
Human/Animal is an ambitious, braided essay collection that resists easy answers.
REVIEW: Everything is Fine, I’ll Just Work Harder by Cara Gormally
Cara Gormally delivers a quietly radical graphic memoir that explores how trauma embeds itself in the body, mutates into perfectionism.
REVIEW: What My Father and I Don’t Talk About, Edited by Michele Filgate
Perhaps I was foolish to review this beautiful collection—my father died when I was 14, and the weight of what he and I can’t talk about is ever-present….
REVIEW: A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy by Tia Levings
Tia Levings’ memoir A Well-Trained Wife articulates fundamentalism as a deeply embedded cognitive framework that persists even in resistance.
CRAFT: Not Too Small to Matter: Using Form and Structure to Create Meaning by Sarah Fawn Montgomery
I was told my tales were unimportant. I was told little girls should be seen and not heard.
INTERVIEW: Suzanne Cope, Author of Women of War: The Italian Assassins, Spies, and Couriers Who Fought the Nazis
We would call them feminists today. I don’t know if all four would have used that exact term, but they all really fought for women’s rights.
INTERVIEW: Shannon Luders-Manuel, Author of The One Who Loves You
I had my black family and my white family, and I talk about the black side of town and the white side of town.
INTERVIEW: Caroline Eden, Author of Cold Kitchen: A Year of Culinary Travels
For this memoir, I wanted to bring the reader into my home, and to Edinburgh where I live.
INTERVIEW: Jill Bialosky, Author of The End is the Beginning: A Personal History of My Mother
As a writer and a reader, I’m searching for truth, honesty, ways of making sense of difficult experiences.
REVIEW: Deep House: The Gayest Love Story Ever Told by Jeremy Atherton Lin
Lin unleashes the full breadth of his research skills, unraveling the history of same-sex unions and the marriage equality movement…
REVIEW: Son of a Bird by Nin Andrews
“Son of a bird” was what Andrews’s Black nanny called her when she’d been naughty.
REVIEW: It All Felt Impossible: 42 Years in 42 Essays by Tom McAllister
McAllister pulls off something wonderful, connecting ordinary life moments to the larger political and cultural perspectives of the time….
REVIEW: Eminent Jews: Bernstein, Brooks, Freidan, Mailer by David Denby
Fairly presenting the event-laden, controversy-crammed lives of this talented quartet…is a task that would intimidate…any sensible biographer.
From the Archives: A Mother’s Day Round-Up — Creative Nonfiction About Moms by D. Nicholas Penglase
Five creative nonfiction pieces which explore the diverse range of relationships and experiences we have with our mothers.
CRAFT: Now What? How Patience & Building Relationships Can Pay Off for CNF Writers by Angel R. Ackerman
Writing is as much about waiting as it is about words.
2025 FLASH CONTEST FINALISTS
Say the Word by Annamaria Formichella
Two neighborhood girls arrive. A few years older than me, they’re here to smoke and look cool…
Greed by Tori Walters
I want the shorts, the sweatshirts, the hairbands, the half empty packets of gum…
Ghouls by Hillary Wentworth
That earthy smell, cotton starched stiff by the sun. A sheet on the line.
