By Lucinda Guard Crofton The persistent noise grows louder and louder, smashing my dream into bits. Slowly, the realization dawns on me that it’s my alarm insisting I rise up and face the day. Eyes half-open, I grab my cell and swipe it only to have my inbox greet me with yet another “We must […]| The Brevity Blog
By Natalie Serianni It’s been four months since I’ve written anything. Sure, I’ve jotted down ideas. Does that count? And it’s… weird. The problem wasn’t that I wasn’t writing. The problem was that I didn’t miss it. It all started in January. I was teaching a nine-week personal essay writing class outside of my full-time […]| The Brevity Blog
By Allison K Williams Brevity’s Editor-in-Chief considers his options for a new literary agent “Eeeeee! Eeeeee! Eeeeee!” were my measured and intelligent words upon scheduling The Call. For t…| 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