By Ren Cedar Fuller In the fall of 2020, my child, Indigo, flew back to their East Coast college. During a weekend phone call, I told them about a writing class I was taking online through Hugo House, and asked, “What would you think of me writing about the golden afternoon?” I meant the day […]| The Brevity Blog
By Allison K Williams “Writing an essay collection or a memoir is an act of generosity. A common misconception is that these kinds of books are all about the author. They’re not. They’re about the reader.” (Maria Goldverg) A few years ago, I was teaching at the Hippocamp Creative Nonfiction Conference, where the keynote speaker […]| The Brevity Blog
By Allison K Williams Do you need an MFA to be a published writer? Heck no! But you do need an education. Develop your writing craft, test your queries, analyze proposals, learn about marketing and publicity, build your literary community. The best part? A lot of this information is free. Some education is time-sensitive. Today […]| The Brevity Blog
By Katie Rose Pryal Life doesn’t come to us as a complete story. It comes in pieces, or fragments—what I call “leftovers.” Like this: I stumbled over a crack in a sidewalk today, which remind…| The Brevity Blog
By Laura Zinn Fromm A few days ago, one of my students emailed. She had read an essay I’d just published about my father—dead now 19 years but still giving me plenty of juice to write about. The es…| The Brevity Blog
