General Resources

1. Creative NonFiction Organization Link
   1. Most Read in 2021 Link
2. Words Without Borders Campus (good for models)
3. The Paris Review “The Art of …” series (good for manuals)
4. Poets and Writers
5. AWP
6. Writer Magazine Link
7. Anne Lamott “Shitty First Drafts” Link
8. Revision: Peter Ho Davies
   1. “The Art of Revision: The Black Box” Link
   2. “A survivors guide to the long, slow, infuriating process of revision” Link
9. Readings from a previous semester class based on Students choices. All works listed are available for free online). Document below.
10. OER Creative Writing Textbook Write or Left Sybil Priebe. Link

Reading-ChoicesDownload

Craft

1. Matthew Salesses “25 essential notes on craft” Link
   1. “Redefining craft terms (ongoing)”  Link
2. Rivka Galchen and Zoe Heller “Can Writing be Taught?” Link
3. James Baldwin “the Creative Process” Link
4.  Joan Didion “On Keeping a Notebook” Link
5. Mary Gannon and Kevin Larimer “How Having a Community stimulates creativity”
6. Annie Dillard “write til you drop” Link

Prose Manuals

1. Zadie Smith “That Crafty Feeling” Link
2. Wayne C Booth “What Every Novelist needs to know about Narrators” Link
3. David Corbett “How to Craft Compelling Characters” Link
4. Emily Barton “Literary or Genre, it’s the plot that counts” Link
5. Teddy Wayne “Tips for Writing Great Dialogue” Link
6. Charles Johnson “The art of revision: most of what you write should be cut” Link
7. Kerrie Flanagan “The Long and Short of the short story form” Link
8. Joan Didion “Why I write” Link
9. George Orwell “Why I write” Link
10. Toni Morrison “the Site of Memory” Link
11. Liz Stephens “Lies I Tell my Nonfiction Students” Link
12. Jill McCabe Johnson “Getting Lost — and Found — in Personal Essays” Link\
13. Sonya Huber “The Sounds of Your Self” Link
14. Heather Lanier “Getting honest about Om: A Brief Essay on Audience” Link
15. Roy Peter Clark “the Line between fact and fiction” Link
16. Lee Gutkind “The 5 Rs of Creative Nonfiction”
17. “The Lyric Essay” by Deborah Tall and John D’Agata Link

Models

Short Essays/Excerpts

1. Abigail Thomas “How to Do Nothing”
2. Habibe Jafarian “How to be a Woman in Tehran”
3. Kenyon Review Short Nonfiction Link
4. Colson Whitehead the colossus Link

Long form Essays

1. Esme Weijun Wang “Perdition Days: on experiencing psychosis” Link
2. Michelle Zauner, “Crying in H Mart”  Link
3. Marjane Satrapi “the Veil” from Persepolis Link

Publishing

1. “How to Submit Your Writing to Literary Magazines” by Aerogramme Writers’ Studio Link
2. “Ask the Writing Teacher: Fifty Shades of Rejection” by Edan Lepucki Link