June | 2025 | The Brevity Blog
10 posts published by Guest Blogger, Dinty W. Moore, Andrea A Firth, and Allison K Williams during June 2025| The Brevity Blog
10 posts published by Guest Blogger, Dinty W. Moore, Andrea A Firth, and Allison K Williams during June 2025| The Brevity Blog
By Allison K Williams Ever been to a funeral for someone you don’t know? Maybe your spouse’s coworker’s spouse, or your mother’s friend’s cousin. You felt the warm, hu…| The Brevity Blog
10 posts published by Allison K Williams, Guest Blogger, Andrea A Firth, and Dinty W. Moore during September 2025| The Brevity Blog
By Michele Cantos Garcia When I was still a new writer searching for my voice at writing workshops, I was overcome with a conviction that I should apply to artist retreats and fellowships. Earning …| The Brevity Blog
By Bernadette Geyer My writing projects spawn and multiply in various computer folders, or huddle clipped together on my desk topped with a Post-it note that says “For editing.” There are also doze…| The Brevity Blog
10 posts published by Guest Blogger and Allison K Williams during August 2025| The Brevity Blog
By Michele Cantos Garcia “I’m 70 and single again,” the glamorous actor-turned-writer read tenderly from her notes. It was her first time in a memoir class—and my first time teaching it—but she alr…| The Brevity Blog
By Diana Friedman In 1971, my mother published her first book—a Dell Pocketbook guide to employment for female liberal arts graduates. I spent my childhood watching her hunch over her typewriter, p…| The Brevity Blog
By Claire Polders I’m not a poet. I voiced this denial multiple times in my life and with complete conviction. It’s the first thing I told Alyson Shelton when she invited me to contribute to her “W…| 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 Caitlin Wahrer When I checked out Master Slave Husband Wife, the biography of an enslaved American couple who emancipated themselves in 1848, I expected a history lesson. I did not expect suspen…| The Brevity Blog
By Allison K Williams & Jane Friedman A writer asked me, “Allison, why are memoirs so much harder to get published than fiction?” I took the question as fundamentally true—that memoirs are hard…| 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
