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When the Arc is Too Small

When a narrative arc doesn't work, how do we find a structure for a work of narrative nonfiction?
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Wading Through Research: An Annotated Interview with Vicki Valosik

In this annotated interview, Swimming Pretty author Vicki Valosik talks about how she dove into an ocean of primary sources and kept her head above the water.
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Prose and Connotations

"It seems like such a small thing to consider, with all of the other elements writers are asked to pay attention to, but I know I need to consider the specific connotations of my words," writes Jenny Hughes.
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That One Time A Writer Signed All My Books

How Andi Stout found a literary community and how it makes her a better writer: An Essay on Literary Citizenship.
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All of Us Ghosts

"This is how ghosts represent trans people. Cactus Country made me realize nonbinariness was a spirit that wanted me to notice it," writes August Owens Grimm in their review essay of Zöe Bossiere's new memoir.
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The Writing Life: How Teaching Helped Me Reclaim My Voice

Olga Katsovskiy explores getting over the writer's block she faced after her dad's death through teaching others to "find the question that needs to be answered."
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Meeting the Complexity of Grief

Pam Anderson shows how B.J. Hollars takes on the complex task of writing about grief without sounding cliche or trite in his memoir, Year of Plenty: A Family's Season of Grief.
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The Power of Crafting Your Own Beginning: A Talk with Debut Author Suzette Mullen

Suzette Mullen shares how she stepped off the straight path of her life and onto the winding one that became her memoir.
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Truth, Shame, and Writing A Memoir

Jonathan Corcoran explores how shame and family secrets nearly prevented him from writing his memoir.
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The Journalist in Me: An Annotated Interview with Putsata Reang

By her own admission, Putsata Reang has an “insatiable appetite for research.”