Craft in Conversation: Following the Scent of the Story with Hyeseung Song
Hyeseung Song demonstrates incredible love through truth-telling in her debut memoir Docile: Memoirs of a Not-So-Perfect Asian Girl (Simon & Schuster, 2024). Docile explores Hyeseung’s..
The Odyssey of Recollection; or, What a Vampire Can Teach Us about the Craft of Memoir
You wouldn’t expect a show centered on undead, blood-drinking, immortal creatures of the night to be the perfect model for how to write personal narrative,..
Writer-Teacher, Teacher-Writer? A Reflection from the Creative Nonfiction Classroom
Many writers earn their living doing something that isn’t writing. We have jobs that are writing-adjacent or that otherwise make use of our skills and..
Criticism has long been imagined as a neutral sorting mechanism—a procedure through which the good is separated from the bad by something other than desire...
Speculation as Art: Mapping Possibilities to Tell Elusive Stories
A decade ago, I visited the Angel Island Immigration Station, the California port of entry where, between 1910 and 1940, Chinese immigrants were detained under..
The dance between journalism and memoir is like two old friends reconnecting at a party—there’s an awkwardness, a curiosity, and an undeniable chemistry. When I..
"As both a nonfiction writer and novelist, I've discovered that these overheard conversations contain the most authentic speech, revealing their generational differences and cultural identities."
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