The concrete essay is a sub-genre of the visual essay that uses typography to embed a shape or pattern into the piece itself….
CRAFT: Visual Creative Nonfiction Forms – A Look at the Concrete Essay by Nicole Breit
Category: Articles
Review: Secrets We Kept: Three Women of Trinidad by Krystal A. Sital
Krystal A Sital’s Secrets We Kept: Three Women of Trinidad reads like the best kind of novel: at once engrossing, vivid, rich in character, sound, taste, and smell.
Review: To the Moon and Back: A Childhood Under the Influence by Lisa Kohn
To the Moon and Back: A Childhood Under the Influence is a riveting tale of a young woman’s survival in—and out—of a religious cult in the 1970s
Review: Algiers, Third World Capital: Freedom Fighters, Revolutionaries, Black Panthers by Elaine Mokhtefi
[Elaine] loved the American idea of France, but…her experience was that of Colonialism and racism, the very problems she meant to leave behind in the United States.
CRAFT: Lessons From Academic Writing, Translated to Creative Writing by Amy Evrard
I’ve gained some important takeaways in my switch from academic writing to creative nonfiction writing…
WRITING LIFE: #MeToo, Myself, and My Work by Pietra Dunmore
Where is the line between critique of the writer and critique of the work?
Interview: Steph Auteri, Author of A Dirty Word: How A Sex Writer Reclaimed Her Sexuality
[Steph’s] memoir, A Dirty Word: How A Sex Writer Reclaimed Her Sexuality, details her attempt to cure her perceived sexual dysfunction through becoming a sex writer….
Review: The Promise of Failure: One Writer’s Perspective on Not Succeeding by John McNally
McNally’s idea for this book originated from Facebook, where many people only posted their “success” updates.
Review: Quite Mad: An American Pharma Memoir by Sarah Fawn Montgomery
In what women know as a familiar and infuriating experience, Montgomery discovers physicians who won’t listen to her.
Review: Lenin’s Asylum by A.A. Weiss
Weiss has volunteered through the Peace Corps to spend 27 months in Moldova, a former Soviet Republic between Romania and Ukraine.
