CRAFT: Sentiment & Sentimentality by Ellen Bass February 3, 2024 Although we want to evoke sensation and make it possible for the reader to feel, we don’t want to fall into sentimentality. Read full story →
CRAFT: Elevate Your Essays: Writing By Bringing the Interior to the Exterior by Estelle Erasmus September 10, 2023 The best way to get into the underlying emotions of a story is to start with action, aka the inciting incident. Read full story →
CRAFT: Recovering and Reclaiming Memory by Amy White April 10, 2023 Like many authors … of creative nonfiction, I’m both inspired by and often turn to ephemera as “original source material.” Read full story →
CRAFT: Biased Language in CNF: Crafting with a Careful Eye by Jennifer Chong Schneider March 20, 2023 As a biracial writer…I often struggle with how to write about race: my race, my parents’, their families’… Read full story →
CRAFT: Writing Emotional and Environmental Grief by Sarah Fawn Montgomery December 15, 2022 “In many ways, memoir grieves a life that no longer exists.” — Sarah Fawn Montgomery on writing about loss. Read full story →
CRAFT: How to Leave an Essay by Suzanne Farrell Smith November 13, 2022 Deciding when and how to leave an essay is hard. You don’t want to drag on, but you don’t want to “dismount too early.” Read full story →
CRAFT: Using Physical Comedy to Energize Dark Memoir by Susan Lippincott Mack October 10, 2022 In literature, physical comedy may be slapstick or it may use subtle references to body functions…. Read full story →
CRAFT: Big Writing Dreams? Here’s Why You Need to Enter CNF Contests by Nicole Breit September 7, 2022 CNF contests are worth submitting to, even if you’re a new writer. In fact, they’re a fantastic place to start. Read full story →
CRAFT: Pedal and Prose: 3 Writing Tips from the Tour by Stephanie Hunt August 10, 2022 In this month’s CRAFT column, Stephanie Hunt shares Tour de France-inspired writing tips. Read full story →
CRAFT: How to Critique Writing About Trauma in a Safer Way by Yolande House July 8, 2022 To avoid unleashing more pain on someone….here are some guidelines I’ve developed for writers giving feedback…. Read full story →