Category Craft Essays
BETTERED BY A BOT: A Hopeful Submission, an Immediate Response, and an Existential Crisis, A Craft Essay by John Sergio
WHAT WE CHASE AND WHAT STAYS, a Craft Essay by Jillian Schedneck
HAIKU PRACTICE FOR PROSE WRITERS, A Craft Essay by Phil Wetjen
POETRY AS VENN DIAGRAM, A Craft Essay by Jacob Butlett
NO “I” IN CNF ? A Less Reflective Approach to Creative Nonfiction, a Craft Essay by Emma Rowan
ALL THE THINGS: WRITING CATALOG POEMS, a Poetry Craft Essay by Erin Murphy
HOW TO WRITE A LOVE POEM, a Poetry Craft Essay by Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo
Writing to the End: Artistic Choices in Apocalyptic Times, a Poetry Craft Essay by Heidi Seaborn
Other Wisdoms: The Divinatory Potential of Poetry, A Poetry Craft Essay by Michele Battiste
The Present Tense: Conversing with Characters, Then and Now, by Elaine Neil Orr
Poetry and the Kink: The Inherent Queerness of the Poetic Line, by Matthew W. Baker
So You Think You Know Your Characters? Think Again, by Gerry Wilson
In Praise of the Memoir of the Mundane, by Tom McAllister
There’s No Cheating in Poetry, by Elizabeth Galoozis
Strangeness and the Art of Revision, by Joshua Wetjen
Writing About Another (Who’s a Public Figure!) Without Malicious Intent, by Bev Boisseau Stohl
On Writing “What Is Left” and How a Poem Remembers and Speaks, a Poetry Craft Essay by Bunkong Tuon
It Started with a List: CRAFTING A HELIX POEM, a Poetry Craft Essay by Eileen Toomey
THE GENEROUS ACT OF PUBLISHING DRAFTS, a Poetry Craft Essay by Abbie Kiefer
HOW I’M RECALIBRATING FOR THE THIRD AGE, A Creative Nonfiction Craft Essay by Elizabeth Bird
WRITING A MEMOIR PARTLY ABOUT A PERSON I NEVER MET, A Craft Essay by Carole Duff
SOMETIMES A REVISION REALLY IS A RE-VISION, a Craft Essay by Elizabeth Stone
WRITING TIMELY FICTION, a Craft Essay by Laura Leigh Morris
METAPHOR AS SEDUCTION, a Craft Essay by Henrietta Goodman
WHAT CONSULTING A PSYCHIC DID FOR MY MEMOIR—AND FOR ME, a Craft Essay by Ona Gritz
DETAILS, DETAILS, DETAILS: A Writing Tip by Beth Kephart
NO SURPRISE FOR THE WRITER? WHAT A RELIEF FOR ME, a Craft Essay by David Galef
ROOTED IN THE PLACE YOU KNOW, a Craft Essay by Bradley Sides
I TOOK INSTRUCTIONS FROM MY HANDS, a craft essay by Beth Kephart
A CRAFT CHAT WITH SUE MELL, by Andrea Caswell
THE USES OF ANAPHORA in Jason Schneiderman’s Poems “Anger” and “Star Dust” by Adrie Rose
MYSTERY, MISCARRIAGE and MENDING, a Craft Essay by Kelly DuMar
Navigating Back: Stargazing and the Threat of AI, a Craft Essay by Scott Hurd
THE FICTION MULTIVERSE, or What Happens Next. Or next, or next… a craft essay by John Fried
ON AUTOBIOGRAPHIA: YOURS, MINE, AND OURS, a craft essay by Ian Clay Sewall
FROM DRAWER TO BOOKSTORE IN JUST TWENTY-FOUR YEARS: The Long and Worthy Journey to Publication by Ona Gritz
CENTER OF AN IMAGINARY WORLD: Place in Fiction, a craft essay by Mandira Pattnaik
THIRTEEN POTSHOTS AT THE PROSE POEM, a Craft Essay by Mike James
GROWING SEASONS: On Plants and Poetry, a craft essay by Luiza Flynn-Goodlett
SHOW, THEN TELL: Crafting Fiction with Alive Exposition by Grace Evans
A LESSON FROM MY THIRD-GRADE SELF: On Writing from the Heart, a Craft Essay by Vivian Conan
COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS: on Lewis Hyde’s Advice for Creativity, and How I Became an Artist in the Modern World, a craft essay by Geoff Watkinson
WANTED: TWO WRITERS MUSE ON THE ART OF SAYING NO by Beth Kephart and Stephanie Weaver
REAL ROT: My Newfound Impatience with Antiheroes, a Craft Essay by Tom Gammarino
HARNESSING WILDNESS: THE PRACTICE OF POETIC LEAPS , a Craft Essay by Kari Ann Ebert
BUILDING BOATS, WRITING POEMS A Craft Essay by James Diaz
THE ELEPHANT OF SILENCE, a poetry craft essay by John Wall Barger
YOU ARE A POET (Even When You Aren’t Writing) A Craft Essay by Mark Danowsky
SPECULATIVE MEMOIR: MAKING THE INVISIBLE VISIBLE a craft essay by Laraine Herring
