Publishing

“You know people plan these things a full year in advance,” a good friend of mine pointed out. Her calendar was filling up with work and family commitments. She found…

What would you choose if you were granted the gift of free time to read? This month our colleagues share their fantasy reads.

The boldfaced recap of her sexual and reproductive life reminds readers of the personal questions and assumptions they bring to the manuscript—about women, about married people, about the measures used…

I kept writing about my mother: her memory loss, physical incapacities, and the reversing roles when an aging parent begins to depend on a daughter. The consistent theme that emerged…

Robyn K. Schneider’s memoir, Silent Running: Our Family’s Journey to the Finish Line with Autism, shows that as mothers, we can handle almost anything—including conditions that initially seem to threaten…

The doctors and nurses tell me to try to hold onto the baby, to keep him inside of me and not go into labor, but they don’t tell me how.…

In my dreams you’re younger than you are now, everything about you soft and vulnerable. Now you stiffen when I reach for you, your face clenched and brittle, your eyes…

In the car, I smell his night on him: beer, cigarettes, sweat, and the sad slurry of youthful stupidity and a concrete cell. I turn on the air. He leans…

In our last class before summer break, we explored creative nonfiction as a spectrum that incorporates elements of poetry, fiction, and various nonfiction strategies such as research, journalism, memoir, and…

Then one night I heard her remark, quite casually in the bath, ”I’m a bad kid.” I felt like someone had poured a bucket of ice water over my head.…

Who are you? / A mother should know. // I don’t, I swear.