Four Ways to Relate to and Appreciate Mama, Mama, Only Mama If You Are Not a Newly Single Parent (or a Parent at all) and Concluding Remarks…
Review: Mama, Mama, Only Mama: An Irreverent Guide to the Newly Single Parent by Lara Lillbridge
Category: Articles
Review: The Buddha Sat Right Here: A Family Odyssey Through India and Nepal by Dena Moes
Dena Moes has such a command as a storyteller. Her voice is intimate, funny, and vivid.
CRAFT: What to Do When You’ve Written an “SFD” by Amy Evrard
Like many writers, up until that point I had approached my writing practice with resistance, self-doubt, and fear… When I first read Anne Lamott’s infamous chapter on “Shitty First Drafts” (SFDs) from her book Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, I felt as if someone had scooped me out of choppy waters…
Review: When You Learn the Alphabet by Kendra Allen
In these essays, Allen grapples with race and racism, family in love and in anger, gender roles, religion, war and trauma, and death and life.
Review: Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country by Pam Houston
I’d only been alive about a decade the first time I looked through The Window.
Review: Things My Son Needs to Know About the World by Fredrik Backman
Backman shifts deftly into nonfiction with his unconventional essay collection, Things My Son Needs to Know About the World…
CRAFT: How to Reveal While You Conceal by Estelle Erasmus
In this day of letting everything hang out, writers … need to remember the key is crafting a strong story that offers some sort of redemption or transformation…
WRITING LIFE: Writing Home by Jamie Beth Cohen
Those of us who left our hometowns as teenagers often feel a pull to return. Sometimes it’s family, or an old flame, other times it’s the place itself…
WRITING LIFE: A Book or Something by Meghan Beaudry
What I remember most about being sick with brain inflammation is the stillness that stretched on for months.
CRAFT: Editing Salad by Danielle DeSantis
I’ve never been a great editor. I work hard on my first draft. It’s tough to cut those carefully crafted sentences and judiciously selected words.
