Creative nonfiction is a tricky genre in that it typically starts out as processing a lived experience rife with complexity. Many of us come to the genre as keepers of journals, chronic processors, habitual seekers, and adamant sense-makers. We record everything and...
My best friend and I have taken to calling each other “weirdos.” In our world, calling someone a weirdo is the highest strata in the hierarchy of love and understanding. I’ve often heard that the impulse to write feels like a creature clawing at your throat and...
I’ve been thinking about how to begin this little letter for a few weeks now, mostly because, well, who am I to tell you what makes a good story? As far as I’m aware, nobody died and made me President of Fiction, unless the letter informing me of my promotion got lost...
