My Favorite Essay to Teach: Brenda Miller’s “We Regret to Inform You”–Stacie Somerset
Reading List: Braided Essay Starter Pack
Reading List: Walking and Hiking
The Backlist: Albert Camus’ Lyrical and Critical Essays–Dian Parker
My Favorite Essay to Teach: Michelle Zauner’s Crying in H Mart–Livia Meneghin
The Backlist: Thomas Chatterton Williams’ Losing My Cool–Scott F. Parker
AWP24: T130. Autobiographical Fiction: Writing About Trauma, Memory, Identity and Survival
AWP24: S131. The Fine Art of Craft Talking
AWP24: F236. The Braided Essay as Change Agent
AWP24: T192. Dazzling Multiplicity of the Actual: Nonfiction Hybridity and Intersectional Form
AWP24: T154. Fragmented Inheritances: Lyric Essay and Intergenerational Trauma
The Backlist: Didion and Me
The Backlist: Anne Boyer’s The Undying
Come write with us at Virtual AWP: Call for guest bloggers Wednesday, February 7
Come write with us at AWP: Call for guest bloggers Saturday, February 10
Come write with us at AWP: Call for guest bloggers Friday, February 9
Come write with us at AWP: Call for guest bloggers Thursday, February 8
Call for AWP Guest Bloggers!
To Wit: Flash Interviews–Edvige Giunta
To Wit: Flash Interviews–Allison Ellis
To Wit: Flash Interviews–Ashley Anderson
Reading List: Lyric Essay Craft & Criticism
The Backlist: Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass in a time of Covid –Christine Cusick
To Wit: Flash Interviews–Julija Šukys
Reading List: BIPOC Trauma Narratives
My Favorite Essay to Teach: Wendy Call on Sejal Shah’s “Thank You”
Practical Notes: Writing a Teaching Philosophy
Reading List: Grief Narratives
My Favorite Essay to Teach: Scott F. Parker on Cheryl Strayed’s “Love of My Life”
Writers to Read: Revisiting Annie Dillard’s Holy the Firm — Heidi Czerwiec
To Wit: Flash Interviews–Amy Bowers
Does Genre Bend Me? Jenny Boully’s “On the EEO Genre Sheet”– Ashley Espinoza
To Wit: Flash Interviews–Joy Castro
“Why Do I Believe Him?” Humor and Believability in David Rakoff’s Fraud–Barbara Godshalk
To Wit: Flash Interviews–Jenny Spinner
Building an Inclusive Classroom–Marissa Landrigan
To Wit: Flash Interviews–Donald Quist
Lesson Plan: The Treasure Hunt: Allowing Students to Choose Course Materials–Joanna Eleftheriou
To Wit: Flash Interviews–Kelly K. Ferguson
To Wit: Flash Interviews–Jennifer Pullen
To Wit: Flash Interviews–Wes Jamison
To Wit: Flash Interviews–Creighton Nicholas Brown
To Wit: Flash Interviews–Beth Dooley
To Wit: Flash Interviews–George Estreich
To Wit: Flash Interviews–Christine Cusick
To Wit: Flash Interviews–Bob Cowser
To Wit: Flash Interviews–Jennifer Case
To Wit: Flash Interviews–Sayantani Dasgupta
To Wit: Flash Interviews–Julie Marie Wade
To Wit: Flash Interviews–Marya Hornbacher
To Wit: Flash Interviews–Natalie Kusz
To Wit: Flash Interviews–Corinna Cook
To Wit: Flash Interviews–Zachary Ostraff
To Wit: Flash Interviews–Michele Morano
To Wit: Flash Interviews–Joni Tevis
To Wit: Flash Interviews–Joanna Eleftheriou
To Wit: Flash Interviews–Alysia Sawchyn
To Wit: Flash Interviews–Amy Monticello
To Wit: Flash Interviews–Zoë Bossiere
American Solitude: Self-Mythologizing in Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire — Marya Hornbacher
Lesson Plan: The Writeshop–Julija Šukys
Watching Sausage Made: The Focus on Craft in Recent CNF Anthologies–Heidi Czerwiec
Navigating a Pendulum: Normalizing Creative Writing Scholarship in the Classroom (Part 3 of 3)–Micah McCrary
Lesson Plan: Teaching Flash Creative Nonfiction in First Year Writing Courses: Four Exercises in Concision and Revision–Zoë Bossiere
Lesson Plan: Radical Joy: Teaching Ross Gay’s The Book of Delights–Heidi Czerwiec
Practical Notes: The Assay Lesson Plan
Practical Notes: Towards the Brief & Informal: In Praise of Other Kinds of Critical Engagement–Karen Babine
Practical Notes: The Assay Author Interview–Julija Sukys
Practical Notes: The Assay Annotated Bibliography–Karen Babine
Karen Babine–Discussion Board Rubrics
John Chávez–Writing & Workshopping in the Time of Covid-19
Joseph Carroll–Online Lesson Plan for Discussing Woolf’s “To the Lighthouse”
Paisley Rekdal–The Epistolary Poem
Sandra Beasley–Rhetorical Device Bingo
Brenda Peynado–Online Course Re/Structuring
Jessie Male–Making Online Instruction Accessible: A Student-Generated List
Stephanie Vanderslice–Using Discussion Boards for Peer Review
Stacy Murison–Setting Up Peer Review in Google Docs
Sarah Einstein–How to Structure an Online Week in a Creative Writing Workshop
Maya Jewell Zeller–”My Private Property” Writing Exercise and Discussion
Neil Simpkins–Zoom Peer Review Groups
AWP20: A House of our Own: A Tribute to Sandra Cisneros
Neil Connelly–Scoring Students on Workshop Feedback
Rapid Response Pedagogy Resources
AWP20: Pushing Past 70: Reaching Creative Nonfiction Readers
AWP20: More Than Me: Memoirists Looking Outward
AWP20: Unmasking the Masked Self: The Complex Role of Persona in Memoir.
AWP20: Not Your Parents Nature Walk: The Next Environmental Nonfiction
Come Write With Us At AWP! Call for Guest Bloggers – Saturday, March 7
Come Write With Us At AWP! Call for Guest Bloggers – Friday, March 6
Come Write With Us At AWP! Call for Guest Bloggers – Thursday, March 5
Come Write With Us At AWP! Call for Guest Bloggers.
Practical Notes: Author Websites–Heidi Czerwiec
Yukon Dispatches: Textual Research (Part 4 of 4)
“What’s on Your Syllabus?” Decolonizing the Classical Essay Curriculum –Jenny Spinner
When the Classroom is a Public Space: Lessons from a New Writer in Residence –Stacy Murison
Practical Notes: On Grant Writing and Grant Hunting–Julija Šukys
AWP2019: Out of Our Time: Writing Dissent in Creative Nonfiction
AWP2019: How to Talk About Yourself in Nonfiction
AWP2019: Writing the Personal Through Fiction and Nonfiction, Sponsored by Grove/Atlantic, Hugo House, and Seattle Arts & Lectures
AWP2019: Crash Course in Flash: Theories on Brevity
AWP2019: My Memoir’s First Year: Lessons Learned by New Authors of Creative Nonfiction
AWP2019: Information to Astonishment—Research as Creative Process in Nonfiction & Poetry
AWP2019: Going Long: Editors & Writers of Longform Nonfiction in Conversation
AWP2019: Writing Into the Silences: A Reading of Recent Creative Nonfiction
AWP2019: The Landscape of Memory: Writing Places That Don’t Exist
AWP2019: Nonfiction for Kids and Teens: The Art of Writing Fact Not Fake Information
AWP2019: Both, Neither, and Something Else Entirely: Genderqueer Writers & Writing
AWP2019: Que savent-ils?: What Classic Essays Can Teach Contemporary Essayists
AWP2019: Reclaiming the Mine: Nonfiction Writers Explore Mining as Method and Metaphor
AWP2019: Rewriting History: Why It’s Not Okay to Fictionalize Our Memories
AWP2019: More Than a Witness: Writing Social Change
AWP2019: Back to Basics: Untangling Environmental Stories
Yukon Dispatches: Cartographic Ekphrasis (Part 3 of 4)
Ekphragrance–Heidi Czerwiec
Come Write With Us At AWP! Call for Guest Bloggers – Saturday
Come Write With Us At AWP! Call for Guest Bloggers – Friday
Come Write With Us At AWP! Call for Guest Bloggers – Thursday
Assay’s Special Issue–CFP!
Towards Transdisciplinary Social Justice: Normalizing Creative Writing Scholarship in the Classroom (Part 2 of 4)–Micah McCrary
Who Touches This: Thoreau and the (Auto)Biographical Imperative –Stan Tag
Teaching the Pen Breakers: On JoAnn Beard’s “Fourth State of Matter”–Siân Griffiths
Yes, I Care What You Think — Stacy Murison
“Heavy: An Anorexic Perspective The Voice Inside of Kiese Laymon’s Head”– Rochelle Newman-Carrasco
Practical Notes: Writing A Craft Paper–Karen Babine
Yukon Dispatches: Deep Research (Part 2 of 4)
Practical Notes: Writing Book Reviews–Vivian Wagner
We’re Going to Need More than Erasure: Normalizing Creative Writing Scholarship in the Classroom (Part 1 of 4)–Micah McCrary
Lisa Groen Braner’s “Soundtrack”–Sari Fordham
Transparency and the Writing Teacher: Sharing Our Process (and, sometimes, our work)–Stacy Murison
Collision with Reality: Narrative Persona in Poe Ballantine’s “Free Rent at the Totalitarian Hotel”–Elin Peterson
Practical Notes: Revising Your Conference Paper for Assay
The Dangers of Classification in Beth Peterson’s “Special Ed”–Joanna Eleftheriou
Practical Notes: Research Statements for Creative Writers–Julija Šukys
NFN18: “Assaying the Work of Nonfiction Studies”
NFN18: “Húslestur on ‘Hauntings,’ A Roundtable Moderated by Piper Daniels”
NFN18: “We Need Some Kind of Tomorrow: Academia in Re-Verse”
Using Poetic Forms in Nonfiction–Heidi Czerwiec
NFN18: “Just Be Yourself and Teach Us”
NFN18: “Beyond the Event”
NFN18: “From Memoir to #MeToo”
NFN18: “Writing the Hermit Crab Essay”
NFN18: “Essay As Ecosystem”
NFN18: “Unexpected Activism”
NFN18: “The Peripatetic Panel”
NFN18: “A Toxic Masculinity Cleanup Crew”
NFN18: “The ‘I’ of the Storm”
NFN18: “Women on the Edge: Writing and Reporting Risky Stories”
NFN18: “Just Be Yourself and Teach Us”
NFN18: “Homing In”
NFN18: “Hauntings in Nonfiction”
NFN18: “Hurdles and Epiphanies on the Way to Finishing a Work of Creative Nonfiction presented by the Whiting Foundation”
NFN18: “Not From Around Here”
NFN18: “Race, Gender, Politics, and the American Dream”
NFN18: “What We Talk About When We Talk About Guns”
NFN18: “Just Be Yourself and Teach Us”
NFN18: “On Collections”
NFN18: “Writers Writing About Literature”
NFN18: “Intersecting with the Aphorism”
NFN18: “Science and Storytelling”
NFN18: “Writing the Day”
NFN18: “Alternate Histories”
NFN18: “Where Fact Meets Fantasy”
NFN18: “Sub/Urban Environmental Writing”
NFN18: “Women on the Edge: Writing and Reporting Risky Stories”
NFN18: “The Essay As Unstrung Lyre”
The Cycles Do Not Turn: On Teaching E.B. White’s “Once More to the Lake”–Kay Cosgrove
Yukon Dispatches: Writing from Art in the Changing North (Part 1 of 4)
Bridging the Gap: Articulating the Motivating Question in the Personal Narrative–Sarah Curtis
Teach This, Not That–Marissa Landrigan
Kao Kalia Yang’s The Latehomecomer–Whitney Jacobson
Crafting Female Friendships: Susanna Sonnenberg’s “She Matters: A Life in Friendships”–Marilyn Duarte
Finding the Self: Amy Liptrot’s The Outrun–Aurora Bonner
Come Write With Us At NonfictioNow! Call for Guest Bloggers – Saturday
The Book Americans Need to Read Right Now: on Valeria Luiselli’s Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions–Megan Brown
Come Write With Us At NonfictioNow! Call for Guest Bloggers–Friday
Come Write With Us At NonfictioNow! Call for Guest Bloggers–Thursday
“Circling to Shape Your Ideas”: An Interview with Michele Morano–Rima Rantisi
Women Writing Lives: Pedagogy in the Archives–Julija Sukys
Angela Morales’s “Girls in My Town”–Jennifer Dean
Reading Beverly Lowry’s Crossed Over: Inside/Outside, Part 2
Reading Beverly Lowry’s Crossed Over: Inside/Outside, Part 1
AWP2018: Truer Words Were Never Spoken: On the Challenges of Writing About Family in Creative Nonfiction/Memoir
AWP2018: The Historical Women: Reimagining Past Narratives Through the Contemporary Female Perspective
AWP2018: Singing the Body Electric: Praise for the Disabled Body
AWP2018: The Enhanced Memoir: When It Happened to Me Isn’t Enough
AWP2018: Narrative Audio and Podcasting: Crafting Stories for the Ear
AWP2018: Complex Narratives: A VIDA Voices and Views Disability Focus Interview
AWP2018: Dispatches from Flyover Country: Building Literary Community in Far-off Places
AWP2018: Sum of the Parts: Creating Cohesion from Fragmented Narratives
AWP2018: Memoir as an Agent of Social Change
AWP2018: The World Grows: New Directions in Environmental Writing
AWP2018: Feminist Flash: Five Women Talk Flash Nonfiction
AWP2018: The Body’s Story: On Writing Narratives of Illness
AWP2018: From the Stanza to the Paragraph: Poets Who Write Prose
AWP2018: Reading the Dead: Bringing the Past to Life in Nonfiction
AWP2018: That Ticking Clock: The Handling of Time in Fiction, Poetry, and Nonfiction
AWP2018: Making Room for Essayistic Thinking during Hard Times
AWP2018: Writing From Privilege: Who Can Write What and Why?
AWP2018: The (Art) World is Everywhere Whispering Essays
AWP2018: Towards Truth and Brevity: All About Creative Nonfiction Chapbooks
AWP2018: It’s (Not) All About Me: Personal Writing in an Age of Narcissism
AWP2018: Flesh and Blood: Women Writing Our Bodies
Assay Interviews Mimi Schwartz
Come Write With Us At AWP! Call for Guest Bloggers–Saturday!
Tree Books for the Classroom
Come Write With Us At AWP! Call for Guest Bloggers–Friday!
Norman Mailer, The Executioner’s Song–Karen Babine
Christine Cusick–Reflections on Teaching
One Must Follow One’s Bliss: Interviewing the Essay with David Lazar
An Interview with Sophfronia Scott
Dinty W. Moore’s “Son of Mr. Green Jeans: A Meditation on Fathers”–Charles Green
Paige Bryson & Rachael Speck: Navigating Undergraduate Publications
“These Little Returns” by Desirae Matherly (NFNOW17 Panel: Talk 5 of 5)
“Me, Again” by Hope Edelman (NFNOW17 Panel: Talk 4 of 5)
“What Remains Unvoiced” by Richard Hoffman (NFNOW17 Panel: Talk 3 of 5)
Why of All the Stories I Can Tell…? By Mimi Schwartz (NFNOW17 Panel: Talk 2 of 5)
“When Writers Repeat Themselves: New Disguises or Fresh Approaches?” by Michael Steinberg (NFNOW17 Panel: Talk 1 of 5)
Steven Harvey & Sonja Livingston–On “Brief Encounters” and “Sputnik 2”
Assay Interviews Anthony Bart Chaney
Gail Hosking–A Conversation on Leaving the University: Getting to a New Shore With One Old Paddle and One New One I Haven’t Found Yet
“The Middle Passage” by V.S. Naipaul–Colin Hosten
My NonfictioNOW 2017 by Genia Blum–Part II: Celebration and Humiliation
My NonfictioNOW 2017 by Genia Blum–Part I: Celebrity and Humility
“On Common Books, Civic Engagement, and Claudia Rankine’s ‘Citizen'”–Creighton Nicholas Brown
Assay’s “In the Classroom” Series Returns!
Assay’s Academic Year 2016-17 Annual Report
Gail Riekie—Of its time and for all times: Darwin’s “The Voyage of the Beagle”
FREUDENSCHANDE: PRIV(AC)Y — by Heidi Czerwiec
Megan McInerney writes about Charles Bowden’s “On the Edge with Edward Abbey, Charles Ives, and the Outlaws”
Assay Interviews Deborah Poe
Listicle: A Brief International Women’s Day/Day Without a Woman Reading List:
Listicle: Resources for Teaching Jo Ann Beard’s “The Fourth State of Matter”
#AWP17 Conference Report — Penny Guisinger on “But That’s Not How It Was: Memoir Writers on Pushing Back Against Expected Narratives”
#AWP17 Conference Report — Rachael Hanel on “Attempting the Impossible: Strategies for Writing Creative Biography”
#AWP17 Conference Report — Tara Betts on “The Written Orality of Hip Hop Lyricism”
#AWP17 Conference Report — Marissa Landrigan on “Imagining the Essay”
#AWP17 Conference Report — Katie Hatcher on “What Writers of Color Want White Editors To Know”
#AWP17 Conference Report — Kim MacQueen on “Digital Pedagogy for Beginners”
#AWP17 Conference Report — Kristine Langley Mahler on “Home: A Four-Letter Word”
#AWP17 Conference Report — Sophia Kouidou-Giles on “Looking Outward: Avoiding the Conventional Memoir”
#AWP17 Conference Report — Ryder Ziebarth on “The Long from the Short: Turning Flashes pieces into a Novel, Novella, or Memoir”
#AWP17 Conference Report — Heidi Fettig Parton on “The Craft of Empathy”
#AWP17 Conference — B. Douglas Caldwell reports on “The National Book Critics Circle on the Art of Criticism”
#AWP17 Conference Report — Vivian Wagner on “Essaying on the Edge: Teaching Alternative Forms of Nonfiction”
#AWP17 Conference Report — Sophia Kouidou-Giles on “Juggling from Within: The Art of Voice”
#AWP2017 Conference Report – Vivian Wagner on “Opening the Doors to Discovery: The Generative Writing Workshop”
#AWP17 Conference Report—Teri McDowell Ott on “Following the Thread of Thought”
#AWP17 Conference Report—Nadia Ghent on “The Personal (Essay) is Political: Nonfiction as an Agent of Social Change”
#AWP17 Conference Report — Anne Pinkerton on “Tell the Truth & Lie to Me”
#AWP17 Conference Report — Telaina Eriksen on “Does Gender Matter? Wrestling with Identity and Form in the Golden Age of Women’s Essays”
#AWP17 Conference Report — Enid Kassner on “Mommy Dearest/Daughter Darling”
#AWP17 Conference Report — Laura Moretz on “Guilty Pleasures: Autobiography into Fiction”
Assay at #AWP17 — Panel & Book Fair Information — We’ll See You There!
Waveform #AWP17 Reading and Panel
Assay Interviews Marcia Aldrich, editor of Waveform: Twenty-First-Century Essays by Women
The Context of “Disobedience” — Michael Estes
Assay@ #AWP17: Call for Saturday Bloggers!
Come Write With Us at #AWP17: Call for Guest Bloggers for Friday Panels
Come Write With Us At #AWP17! Call for Guest Bloggers–Thursday, February 9
Assay @AWP17 — Our Book Fair & Panel Information
Martin Luther King Day 2017 — Online Teaching Resources
On Shifting the Narrative by Taylor Brorby (Writers to Read: Brian Doyle)
Reading List: Essays that Define the Essay
Listicle: Punctuation & Grammar Essays that Entertain as well as Teach
Sui Sin Far’s “Leaves from the Mental Portfolio of a Eurasian” –Brenna M. Casey
Writers to Read: Sophfronia Scott on Donald Quist’s “Harbors”
Jenna London on Terry Tempest Williams’s “Refuge”
Jenna London on “The Nine Mile Wolves” by Rick Bass
“The Shepherd’s Life” by James Rebanks–Jenna London
CFP: The Nonfiction of Social Justice
James Alan McPherson’s “Umbilicus”–Chauna Craig
Becoming the Student: Jennie Case Reflects on the Bread Loaf Orion Environmental Writer’s Conference
A Truly Gigantic Journey: Uncovering Leah Lax by Stacey Engels
Susan Orlean’s “Meet the Shaggs”–Kyle Simonsen
Benjamin Batley on Anthony Bourdain: The Punk Rocker of Food, Culture, and Travel Blogging
Writers to Read: Karen Babine on Paul Gruchow
Assay’s “In the Classroom” Series Returns!
Assay’s Academic Year 2015-2016 Annual Report
#cnfwc16 — Twelve Quotes Full of “Insight and Inspiration” from the 2016 Creative Nonfiction Writers’ Conference
#cnfwc16 — Personal Essay at the Creative Nonfiction Writers’ Conference
#cnfwc16 — Connecting at the Creative Nonfiction Conference
#cnfwc16 — Report from the Creative Nonfiction Writers’ Conference
Topic – Resource List: Diversity / Difference / Power in the Writing Classroom
Lauren Wilson: Writer’s Block While Traveling Abroad
Sam van Zweden on “Small Acts of Disappearance: Essays on Hunger,” by Fiona Wright
R. Flowers Rivera: Poetry Is Nonfiction and Other Things My Students Learn to Trust
A Nerve for Excellence: Teaching Annie Dillard’s “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”–Jennifer Case
Jamaica Kincaid’s “A Small Place”–Creighton Nicholas Brown
Our BAE Call for Submissions Explained: Submit!
Visit Us at AWP2016!
The Travel-Writer-In-Process by Lauren Wilson
CFP: Assay 3.1 and Beyond!
The Travel Writer-in-Process by Lauren Wilson
Don’t Say It: Meghan Daum Writes It in “Unspeakable” by Amanda Page
The Travel Writer-in-Process by Lauren Wilson
Teaching “Captain Love” by James M. Chesbro
English Composition & Commonly Misspelled Words: Songs Can Help
Writers to Read: On Compression by Taylor Brorby
Writers to Read by Jois Child: Wide-eyed, a Little Breathless, and Falling Slowly Earthward
“The annihilating ocean of whiteness”: J. D. Schraffenberger on Scott Russell Sanders’ “Cloud Crossing”
A Moveable Feast #PorteOuverte by Jen Palmares Meadows
Assay’s Call for Submissions and “In the Classroom” Review
Contemporary Memoirs or Collections of Essays by Writers of Color: An Incomplete List — Collected by Steven Church
Every Day Awe: Stacy Murison on Brian Doyle
Assay@NFN15: You Lived Through It; Do We Have to Read About It?
In the Classroom: How Human Behavior Studies Aid the Memoirist by Sophia Kouidou-Giles
Hey You, Speak Up!: On Teaching “Save the Whales, Screw the Shrimp” by Joy Williams
In the Classroom: Teaching “Citizen Vince” by Erin Davis
The Travel Writer-in-Progress — by Lauren Wilson
Favorite Writers to Read: Sophfronia Scott on Robert Vivian’s “Mystery My Country”
Assay@NFN15: Keynote Address by Michael Martone and Ander Monson
Assay@NFN15: The Beasts Amongst Us: Essayists Narrating the Animal World
Assay@NFN15: Exploring Women’s Bodies, Sex and Sexuality in Writing Non-Fiction
Assay@NFN15: Weird Places and Particular Spaces
Assay@NFN15: Hydra-headed Memoirs and Well-connected Essays: Negotiating Your Book-length, NonFiction Thing
Assay@NFN15: The Lyrical Essays of Virginia Woolf
Assay@NFN15: Crime Into Story
Jorge Luis Borges’ “On Blindness” –Gwendolyn Edward
Assay@NFN15: “The Science of Story: Creative Nonfiction and Cognitive Science”
Assay@NFN15: “Writing the Difficult Other”
Assay@NFN15: “Adventures in Poetic Biography”
Assay@NFN15: “Crafting True: The Complementary Worlds of Narrative Journalism and The Essay”
Assay@NFN15: “The Essayist as Human”
Assay@NFN15: “Rewriting Those We Love”
Assay@NFN15: “The Lyric Moments”
Assay@NFN15: “Music and Writing”
Assay@NFN15: “It’s a Family Affair: The Exciting/Perilous Task of Writing About our Relations”
Assay@NFN15: “The Poessaytics of Form”
Assay@NFN15: “Entropy Magazine: A Case Study”
Assay@NFN15: “Writers on Essays that Took Forever to Get Right”
Assay@NFN15: “Beyond Scaffolding: Constructing an Essay Collection”
Assay@NFN15: “On Failure, or the Essay as Ruin”
Assay@NFN15: “Writing from Within a Dissenting Subjectivity”
Assay@NFN15: “Performing the Essay”
Reading List: Nonfiction Craft Books
Call for Submissions!
Writers to Read: On Layers — by Taylor Brorby
My Favorite Essay to Teach: Debra Marquart’s “Hochzeit” — by Dinty W. Moore
Topic: Food–Books
Topic: Food–Essays
Writers to Read: In Praise of Odder Women — by Stacey Engels
The Travel Writer-in-Progress — by Lauren Wilson
Assay’s “In the Classroom” Series is Back!
My Favorite Essay to Teach: On Keeping A Notebook — by Jessica Handler
Assay@NonfictionNow2015: Call for Saturday Bloggers!
Assay@NonfictionNow2015: Call for Friday Bloggers!
Assay@NonfictioNow2015: Call for Guest Bloggers–Thursday!
Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies 