Personal Narratives

In today’s guest post, Literary Reflections Editor Andrea Lani shares how inside the car might just be the best place to write.

In today’s guest post, Literary Mama reader Annie Johnson shares how her reality stacks up to her dreams.

In today’s guest post, reader Anna Lee Beyer tells how rejections help her to move forward.

In today’s guest post, Literary Mama reader Carissa Kapcar share how writing is a visceral action for her.

In this guest post, Literary Mama reader Jennifer Hollis shares the beauty of practice.

In today’s guest post, Blog Editor Amanda Jaros shares what her MFA journey is teaching her.

In today’s guest post, Literary Mama reader Wendy Wisner moves from the edge of her writing life to diving right in.

If you’re still finding it difficult to imagine the energy released by 12,000 people in one facility, I encourage you to picture one word: hunger.

Permission to tell my “I story” “IIIIIIII…” the packed room of mostly women sang in unison, conducted by one of my favorite authors, Lidia Yuknavitch. “I want you to be crazy brave…” she’d said in a session titled “Breaking the Body: Women Writers Reconfiguring Creative Nonfiction Forms” at the 2015 AWP conference in Minneapolis. If […]

Literary Mama reader Jeanne Lyet Gassman shares all her ups and downs of her many visits to AWP.

In today’s guest post, Justine Uhlenbrock encourages you to step out of your normal routine.