Fact and Fiction
My sister recently told me, when she browses for books, she will almost always select a nonfiction title over a fiction one. I’m a fiction writer, so she was compelled to justify her choice:“Fiction isn’t real.” [Read More]
creative nonfiction
To Perceive Is to Suffer (The Empathy Exams: Essays by Leslie Jamison)
Leslie Jamison's extraordinary essay collection combines the personal essay, reportage, cultural criticism, and philosophy to examine human empathy. [Read More]
Unusual Calls for Submissions: March Edition
Spring is almost here and with it a bunch of deadlines! [Read More]
The House of Wisdom, Sacked (Letter to a Future Lover by Ander Monson)
Ander Monson's eclectic essays explore ephemera discovered in libraries and beyond. [Read More]
Unusual Calls for Submissions: February Edition
Our monthly listing of unusual calls for submissions and contests! [Read More]
Unusual Calls for Submissions: January Edition
Is “submit more” one of your resolutions for 2015? Consider one of the following! [Read More]
Unusual Calls for Submissions: December Edition
What better way to weather the long winter than by submitting your work? Here are some unusual [Read More]
Unusual Calls for Submissions: October Edition
October is here, which means a number of your favorite lit mags have opened submissions for the [Read More]
No Common Reader (Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman)
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1998) collects eighteen [Read More]
On Truthiness and Beauty* (The Lifespan of a Fact by John D’Agata and Jim Fingal)
How far are essayists allowed to bend the truth before they’re no longer writing nonfiction? In [Read More]
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