The memoir, winner of the Iowa Prize for Literary Nonfiction, explores what it means to be a second-generation Black American Muslim.
REVIEW: Heir to the Crescent Moon by Sufiya Abdur-Rahman
Category: Articles
CRAFT: How to Critique Writing About Trauma in a Safer Way by Yolande House
To avoid unleashing more pain on someone….here are some guidelines I’ve developed for writers giving feedback….
WRITING LIFE: Questions that Recentered My Writing Joy by Elizabeth Reed
I’m a musician, but writing has been a side passion since childhood.
INTERVIEW: Lizz Schumer, Author of Biography of a Body
I was drawn to lyrical, fragmented form of Lizz Schumer’s Biography of a Body …
CRAFT: The Hermit Crab Essay: Forming a Humorous Take on Dark Memoir by Susan Mack
Effective use of the hermit crab structure doesn’t have to be limited to standalone essays.
WRITING LIFE: The Arc of Disappointment by Kristen Paulson-Nguyen
Was I ready to read writers’ celebratory tweets?
REVIEW + INTERVIEW: The Daddy Chronicles by Jayne Martin
Like many fatherless daughters, myself included, Jayne Martin wasn’t without a father in the strictest sense of the term.
REVIEW: Quagmire: Personal Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan edited by Donald Anderson
The collection offers multiple perspectives of the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, told in short essays by soldiers, sisters, scholars, lovers and more.
REVIEW: Slow Fuse of the Possible: A Memoir of Poetry and Psychoanalysis by Kate Daniels
Stream-of-consciousness, vivid imagery and poetic mechanics yields a memoir vividly capturing the author’s experience in psychoanalysis.
REVIEW: My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World’s Deadliest Migration Route by Sally Hayden
The horrific experiences of African migrants seeking asylum in Europe is the focus of this reported nonfiction book.
