Today's Interview Project highlight focuses the spotlight on Black queer, femme power. โ๐พ๐
Cicely Belle Blain is a Black/mixed, queer femme, and their 2020 debut "Burning Sugar" exposes colonization and its impact on Black bodies.
Read the interview here: buff.ly/3IvOyHH
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"Armed with a pack of blank note cards, I begin to copy quotations...my thoughts fall into a succession of kaleidoscopic patterns, as various as the voices around me," writes Jacqueline Doyle in Assay 4.1.
Read it here: buff.ly/V4fHFuw
๐ธ Kelsy Gagnebin (Unsplash)
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Who's headed to AWP in Baltimore this year? Come see our EIC Karen Babine for either a panel on creating literary magazines with students, or a signing of her recent release, THE ALLURE OF ELSEWHERE! Head to Rm 320, Level 300, Baltimore Convention Center, for the panel. The Milkweed booth is 830/832
Today's Spotlight is Floreani's wonderful "Sewing and Telling" from Assay 6.1. Floreani "articulates the potential subversions of our cultural assumptions about what we makeโor donโt." ๐ชก
Read it here: buff.ly/G99lclQ
๐ธ by Art Institute of Chicago
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We're thinking about flash today--flash interviews, that is! Joni Tevis covers a lot of ground in this quick chat from 2021.
Read today's interview here: buff.ly/9we1mNP
๐ธ courtesy of jonitevis.com
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Today's pedagogy comes from Terry Thaxton in Assay 5.1, who revolutionizes her workshop by letting her students go wild and create their own workshop.
Read today's pedagogy article here: buff.ly/trjaTaj
๐ธ by Callum Eddings on Unsplash
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Our friends are open for submissions! Fourth Genre's Steinberg Memorial Essay Prize and Multimedia Essay Contest are both now open! Submissions are due by April 15. Head to fourthgenre.org for more info
๐ธ by @fourthgenre
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For today's Wednesday Spotlight, let's take a look at Issue 2.2, where Jie Liu, a Chinese fiction writer with four books out for children, examines the impact of the video essay in "Thirteen Canada Geese." ๐ชฟ
Read it here: buff.ly/wCVJyWh
๐ธ by Aboodi Vesakaran on Unsplash
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In our 2025 interview with Laura Julier, former editor of Fourth Genre, Laura speaks about her debut memoir, "Off Izaak Walton Road," her literary touchstones, and more from a book steeped in loss and how to walk alongside it.
Read the interview here: buff.ly/XAKvo70
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In our most recent issue of Assay with Amy Garrett Brown's "Teaching the Researched Family...", Brown reimagines the family profile essay & shows how she taught her students to mine their histories and cultures for a researched family profile.
Read it here: buff.ly/T1vGX6g
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this weekend bootcamp focused on the ethics of memory in nonfiction looks to be a blast!
3-session weekend Online, Fri 2/27 3-5p PT/6-8p ET + Sa-Su 2/28-3/1 11a-1p PT/2-4p ET.
Registration link: buff.ly/zF4X1hJ
๐ธ by @caravanwriterscollective
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For today's #ThrowbackThursday, let's journey back to the time of the Walkman & investigate the quotidian with "Containing the Lives of Ordinary Things" from Assay 4.2.
Read it all here: buff.ly/KJKkfuL
๐ธ by Florian Schmetz on Unsplash
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In his piece for Assay issue 8.2, Michael Cox explores a masterclass in how a single sentence and a deleted paragraph can change the entire soul of a story.
Read the full article here: buff.ly/9AhSeL4
Photo by Foto Pettine on Unsplash
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For Kathryn Nuernberger, research is baked into her writing practice and ritual, and she encourages other writers to embrace this in today's Interview Project highlight.
Read the full conversation here: buff.ly/Wb9vmvb
๐ธ by by ๐ธ๐ฎ Janko Ferliฤ on Unsplash
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Let's revisit Erin Fogarty Owenโs essay โHow to Write Well About Deathโ from Assay issue 10.1. Owen offers tools like the โCPR Methodโ to help authors connect with readers. ๐
Read the complete article here:
buff.ly/R6Xpw5C
Photo by Ron Szalata on Unsplash
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In Assay 2.1, Daniel Nester interrogates his personal relationship with the term "working class memoir," ultimately finding his own understanding of what it means to be a "straddler memoirist."
Read the full article here: buff.ly/hU60Gm6
๐ธ by Laura Fuhrman on Unsplash
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This week weโre pulling from the archives with an interview of Sumana Roy, conducted by Sayantani Dasgupta.
Read the complete interview here:
buff.ly/aYMDNvX
๐ธ by Birmingham Museums Trust on Unsplash
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We're salivating over Mike Catron's "Thereโs No Such Thing as Too Much of
Jason Sheehanโs โThereโs No Such Thing As Too Much Barbecueโ:
A Pedagogical Discussion" from Assay 8.1.
Read it here: buff.ly/90UaeRm
๐ธ by Emerson Vieira on Unsplash
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Looking for the perfect rainy day activity? Got a new reading list you're excited to try out w/ your students? Consider staying in and submitting to Assay! ๐ฆ๏ธ
View our full submission guidelines and submit your work here: buff.ly/5IAc4Qz
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For today's Friends spotlight, we're spotlighting The Palisades Review, a journal founded in 2022 & currently open for nonfic submissions of 1000 words or less.
Head to their website at buff.ly/BikJD8q to learn more!
๐ธ Palisades Review
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For today's Throwback we're taking lessons from Brian Doyle's uncertainty and Ana Maria Spagna's astute observations in "On 'How We Wrestle is Who We Are' from Assay 4.1. ๐ซ
Read the full article here: buff.ly/IaYVIuc
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This week we are pulling from Assay 3.1 for today's article spotlight. Written by Lynn Z. Bloom, "The Great American Potluck Party" draws upon a holiday tradition for metaphor & multiple sources when defining the essay.
Read Bloom in full here: buff.ly/qmVbgIA
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"The artistry and the magic happen in the selection and arrangement of the materials."
-Donovan Hohn, on comparing Joseph Cornell boxes to nonfiction essays
Read Donovan's full 2020 full interview here: buff.ly/pf3yxUk
๐ธ lucidfrenzy.blogspot.com
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Look back w/ us on our first issue w/ Robert Brooke's "Teaching 'Rhetoric: The Essay.'" Brooke focuses on the concept of the "life soundtrack essay" & "application essay" to teach about nonfiction forms.
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๐ธ The New York Public Library (Unsplash)
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*opens internet*
*closes internet*
*reads an essay to feel something*
For today's syllabi Sunday, we're focusing on Walters's "Memoir and Journal Writing" course from University of Minnesota Duluth.
Read the full syllabus here: buff.ly/4Dmdk0j
Photo by Evie S. on Unsplash
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Let your writing career grow stronger--submit to us! Assayโs submissions are open year-round, so submitting with us is always the right time. View our full submission guidelines and submit your work here: buff.ly/gKWktDt
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For #FriendsOfAssay today, we're focusing on Bright Flash Literary Review. Submissions of your best compelling memoir (and flash fiction) are accepted on a rolling basis.
Head to their website at buff.ly/UrWqFq5 for more info.
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For Throwback Thursday we're spotlighting Ashley Espinoza's "A Las Mujeres: Hybrid Identities in Latina Memoir" from Assay 9.1. Espinoza examines Latina identity and how to hold & work with hybrid identity within memoir.
Read the full article here: buff.ly/LnEfzkW
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Today, we're focusing on children and their often underestimated power. In Assay issue 9.2, Jeannine Ouellette explores why child narrators are uniquely effective in adult creative nonfiction.
Read Ouellette's article here: buff.ly/tUlStDu
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