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Writer's Craft Corner

Writer’s Craft Corner: Jocelyn Jane Cox

“What Is Your Sauce Policy? On Literary Devices and Craft Choices in Quiet Memoir,” appeared in the November 6, 2026 issue of true. We know..

What Is Your Sauce Policy? On Literary Devices and Craft Choices in Quiet Memoir

A few seconds after our 13-year-old asked for lunch during a road trip this summer, those ubiquitous McDonald’s arches suddenly appeared, turned into index fingers,..

We’re Still Making the Story: A Conversation with Kristen Millares Young

Deep into our conversation, Kristen Millares Young’s kittens got into it with a bigger cat from next door, and she broke off to send him..

Writer's Craft Corner

Writer’s Craft Corner: Wendy M. Thompson

“Writing Against: Training, Genre, and Poetic Interference,” appeared in the October 9, 2026 issue of true. What inspired you to interrogate the primary question of..

Community and Resistance: The Writing Process as an Antidote to Upheaval

“A whole civilization will die tonight.” This upsetting nugget was delivered to me during a bit of early-morning social media scrolling, and it may have..

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..

Redemption Through Re-Narration

Courtney Ann LaFaive’s second book, Follow the Signs: Searching for Linda Goodman, America’s Forgotten Astrology Queen, came out this spring through the University of Iowa..

The Architecture of Care

Craft, Consciousness, and Ethical Form in Girlhood In Girlhood, Melissa Febos does not merely recount the experience of growing up female; she constructs an ethical..

Mosaic: Craft as Discrete Infinity

I. The Writer’s Life Certain people tend to be good listeners. Writers, for example. The writer might hear how, when you swing the fence shut,..

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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,..

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