The visual essay is a hybrid narrative form that communicates meaning for the reader both visually and textually.
CRAFT: 4 powerful ways to use images and text in CNF by Nicole Breit
Category: Articles
Review: First Comes Marriage by Huda Al-Marashi
Huda meets Hadi, the boy she will ultimately marry, at six years old.
Review: Island In the City: A Memoir by Micah McCrary
Drawing … parallels between Illinois… and Prague makes for an interesting journey for a young African-American queer male growing up in the late 80’s/early 90’s…
Review: All the Wild Hungers by Karen Babine — Six Things This Book Is About and What Happened When I Read It
Karen collects and names her cookware. She has a thing for cast iron skillets …
WRITING LIFE: Living By Lists by Melissa D. Sullivan
I feel mighty, secure and invincible if I have my lists….
CRAFT: Bring It On Home- Techniques to Crafting Endings by Anita Gill
One aspect of writing I’ve stumbled over time and time again is producing effective endings to my short-form memoir pieces…
Review: A Certain Loneliness by Sandra Gail Lambert
A Certain Loneliness is a memoir that circles queerness, disability, independence, and the human struggle to connect.
Review: The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet: A Memoir by Kim Adrian
Adrian writes her memoir as a glossary, starting with A and sharing her story though short vignettes….
Review: Us Girls by Rachael J. Hughes
When Hughes is 17 and still hasn’t gotten her period, she goes to a doctor who tells her she doesn’t have a uterus…
WRITING LIFE: Writing Partners – An Essay on Rhizomatic Being by Jeanette Brown
Some writing absolutely must be done alone. Hemingway said it perhaps most famously, but Kristina Moriconi gave the idea her own spin in this very column this past July.
