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 the 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 the 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 the 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 the 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 the 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 the 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 the full story →
CRAFT: The Hermit Crab Essay: Forming a Humorous Take on Dark Memoir by Susan Mack June 6, 2022 Effective use of the hermit crab structure doesn’t have to be limited to standalone essays. Read the full story →
CRAFT: Tell Me Your Stories — Travel Among Friends and Family as a Research Methodology in Narrative Nonfiction by Sarah Einstein May 9, 2022 The manuscript I’m working on both is and isn’t travel writing…. Read the full story →
CRAFT: Of Fragments and Segments by Heidi Czerwiec April 7, 2022 Essays that use a lot of white space are often described as fragmented. But Robert Root uses the term “segmented essay”…. Read the full story →