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Final Mailing

Final Mailing, October, 2019
R. Cross: Johannes Vermeer Blew My Writerly Mind
Alexandra Chang: The Private and The Public
Perri Klass: Protected Health Information
Bret Anthony Johnston: Even in the Gathering Darkness

Bulletin 149

Bulletin 149, July, 2019
Rachael Uwada Clifford: On Beginning with Image
Robin Halevy: The Leap
Siamak Vossoughi: Language and War
Andra Nicolescu: A Vessel for History, Life with Maline, and Other Fictions
Cat Seto: A 20 Year Itch
Kent Wascom: Vandals, Romans, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves
Monica Wood: Creating Context

Bulletin 148

Bulletin 148, May, 2019
Stanley Delgado: There Was a Man in El Salvador Who Owned Four Dogs
Polly Rosenwaike: Patience
Lee Martin: Make It Memorable: Deepening Characters
Ed Allen: What Else Can I Tell You?
Douglas W. Milliken: This Knotted Labyrinth of Self

Bulletin 147

Bulletin 147, April, 2019
David McDannald: On Killing the Cursor
Erika Krouse: Plot Structure and the Myth of the Natural Writer (Also, Ducks)
Ken Cook: A Family Theme, a Family Secret

Bulletin 146

Bulletin 146, March, 2019
Marian Palaia: Words, and Barry Hannah, the Guy Who Taught Me to Love Them
Devin Murphy: We All Do It! Don’t We?
Siamak Vossoughi: The Political Lives of Characters

Bulletin 145

Bulletin 145, February, 2019
Scott Gloden: Square Dancing
Susan Messer: Novelist Needs Realistic Details

Bulletin 144

Bulletin 144, January, 2019
R. Cross: Essay to Follow
Gregory Wolos: Dialogue: Something to Talk About
Melissa Yancy: Playing the Odds

Bulletin 143

Bulletin 143, December, 2018
Jane Delury: Go Small to Go Big
Matthew Vollmer: The Literary Masquerade

Bulletin 142

Bulletin 142, November, 2018
Laura Roque: Writing What We Run From
Rachel Heng: How I Wrote My Novel in Two Years and Other Accounting Tricks
Peter Sheehy: Strikethroughs and Strikeouts

Bulletin 141

Bulletin 141, October, 2018
May-lee Chai: Writing Immigrant Stories
William Luvaas: Novel and Story
Tobias Wolff: Tobias Wolff, from an interview by Travis Holland

Bulletin 140

Bulletin 140, September, 2018
Victoria Alejandra Garayalde: I Write for You?
Valerie Trueblood: Vast
Nellie Hermann: The Curious Border Between Fiction and Nonfiction

Bulletin 139

Bulletin 139, August, 2018
Marian Crotty: Committing to Place
Laura Furman: Notes on Writing
Lee Martin: Taming the Shaggy Beast

Bulletin 138

Bulletin 138, July, 2018
Kari Lund-Teigen: Finding, Tricking, Making
Les Myers: Essay to Follow
Myla Goldberg: The Real World, from an interview by Sarah Anne Johnson

Bulletin 137

Bulletin 137, June, 2018
Jon Chopan: Teaching and Purpose
Jennifer Egan: The Beginning of a Long Trajectory, from an Interview by Jeremiah Chamberlin
Andrew Porter: On Discipline, from an interview by Trevor Gore

Bulletin 136

Bulletin 136, May, 2018
Amy X. Wang: Guts
Kim Brooks: Violent Ends
Terrence Cheng: The Stories That Must Be Told
Kimberly Bunker: The Fear of Not Saying Interesting Things

Bulletin 135

Bulletin 135, April, 2018
Bret Anthony Johnston: From an Interview by Margo Williams
Laura van den Berg: From an Interview by Jeremiah Chamberlin
Baird Harper: Writing Advice

Bulletin 134

Bulletin 134, March, 2018
Peter Nathaniel Malae: The Soft Side of Good Storytelling
Corey Flintoff: Hope for an Old Beginner
Jane Delury: Just Because It's Obvious Doesn't Mean It's Easy

Bulletin 133

Bulletin 133, February, 2018
Thomas Fox Averill: Writing Archival Fiction
Aline Ohanesian: On Rejection
Danielle Lazarin: Question Everything

Bulletin 132

Bulletin 132, January, 2018
Maxime Kawawa-Beaudan: A Constitution for a Young Artist
Amina Gautier: Joy of Revision
Matthew Lansburgh: Writing About Family: Advice, Second Thoughts, Xanax, and a Note to my Mom
Colin Fleming: Written on the Bricks: Composing While You Move

Bulletin 131

Bulletin 131, December, 2017
Sophie Chen Keller: On Writing from a Child's Perspective for Adults
Andrew Porter: The Long First Draft
Will Boast: Cutting out the Bad Bits
Siamak Vossoughi: The Political Lives of Characters

Bulletin 130

Bulletin 130, November, 2017
Arianna Reiche: On Spaceships
Chase Burke: Constraint as a Method of Surprise
Lee Conell: The Art of Distraction

Bulletin 129

Bulletin 129, October, 2017
Matthew Lansburgh: Two Birds with One Stone: The Power of Empathy
Rebecca Podos: Choosing the Details
Paul Griner: Researching and Writing: Pith and Peel

Bulletin 128

Bulletin 128, September, 2017
Dan Murphy: Beesting, Kneecap, Lozenge
David Ebenbach: Writers Aren't Who They Think They Are
Devin Murphy: The Gray Birds of Loneliness

Bulletin 127

Bulletin 127, August, 2017
Rowena Macdonald: On Dialogue
Silas Dent Zobal: All of Old. Nothing Else Ever. Ever Tried. Ever Failed.
Josh Henkin: From the Roots of Character Grow the Branches of Plot

Bulletin 126

Bulletin 126, July, 2017
Peter Parsons: No One There, No One to Talk to…
George Makana Clark: How I Write: the Obstinate Truth
Janis Hubschman: Steal This List

Bulletin 125

Bulletin 125, June, 2017
Weike Wang: A 100% Rejection Rate
Bipin Aurora: Some Lessons Learned
Stefanie Freele: On Gathering Material
Andrew Porter: Looking Back
Peter Ho Davies: Laying Fiction Over History

Bulletin 124

Bulletin 124, May, 2017
Courtney Knowlton: Why I Shouldn't Be a Writer
Katherine Vaz: The Killing Fields and Sean Penn
Stefani Nellen: How to "Write Science" Without Becoming a Lecturer
Andrew Roe: Daily Momentum: A Little Progress Goes a Long Way

Bulletin 123

Bulletin 123, April, 2017
Peter Ho Davies: On Form
Yelizaveta P. Renfro: Making Lists
Daniel Torday: The Secret Lives of Novellas

Bulletin 122

Bulletin 122, March, 2017
Doug Crandell: Your Family, My Family, and the Human Family
David Ebenbach: Try, Try Again
Kimberly Bunker: The Fear of Not Saying Interesting Things

Bulletin 121

Bulletin 121, February, 2017
Karen Brown: My Grandmother's Cigarette Box
Joshua Henkin: Pleasing Contradictions
Danielle Lazarin: Becoming a Mapbuilder

Bulletin 120

Bulletin 120, January, 2017
Toby Wallis: The Questions That Don't Get Answered
Karen Malley: Coyote
Stefanie Freele: Oh, The Mistakes I've Made and The Wonders to Howl About

Bulletin 119

Bulletin 119, December, 2016
Silas Dent Zobal: On the Impoverished World
Valerie Laken: From an Interview by Peggy Adler
William Luvaas: Turning Our Lives into Fiction
Antonya Nelson: What One Feels Compelled to Write
Josh Weil: Breathing Room

Bulletin 118

Bulletin 118, November, 2016
Mark Fishman: Reading
Zehra Nabi: Playing and Planning
John S. Walker: From "Story of My Stories"
Kurt Rheinheimer: Writing About Family

Bulletin 117

Bulletin 117, October, 2016
Robert Schirmer: Every Bit as Hard as It Sounds
E.A. Durden: On Writing as Theft
Melissa Yancy: The Upside of Failure
Vi Khi Nao: Laziness in Molecular Transformation
Gabriel Brownstein: Expository Dialogue and Student Fiction

Bulletin 116

Bulletin 116, September, 2016
Erin Rose Belair: On Making Good with your Ghosts
Karen Malley: The SNCF
Lisa Graley: Accidental Bonsai

Bulletin 115

Bulletin 115, August, 2016
Bret Anthony Johnston: From an Interview by Margo Williams
Abby Geni: The Gift of Research
Nellie Hermann: The Curious Border Between Fiction and Nonfiction

Bulletin 114

Bulletin 114, July, 2016
Taiyaba Husain: Mozart Had a Mother-in-law
Trevor Crown: Scraps
Benjamin Percy: All In
Karen Outen: On Editing
Aaron Gwyn: Show Me a List

Bulletin 113

Abby Geni: Description
Cary Groner: On Revising
Antonya Nelson: An Artist in the Studio, Working

Bulletin 112

Bulletin 112, May, 2016
Alex Jaros: On Chipotle and Some Mystical Ghost
Amina Gautier: What Do They Do? On Characters, Work, and Conflict.
Carrie Brown: The Difficult Art of Happiness
Josh Henkin: The Best-Laid Plans
Karen Russell: Advice

Bulletin 111

Bulletin 111, April, 2016
Javier Marías: From an interview by Eli S. Evan
Roxana Robinson: What Form It Will Take
Myla Goldberg: From an interview by Sarah Anne Johnson

Bulletin 110

Bulletin 110, March, 2016
David Mizner: What Is It Good for?
Lillian Li: Why Write Characters of Color?
Bob Shacochis: From an interview by Kevin Rabalais
Christine Grace: Building a Collection.

Bulletin 109

Bulletin 109, February, 2016
Gabe Herron: Craft vs. Time
Carrie Brown: From an interview by Jennifer Levasseur and Kevin Rabalais
Stephanie Soíleau: On Ambiguity
George Rabasa: Enriching the Stew

Bulletin 108

Bulletin 108, January, 2016
Anthony DeCasper: On Reading for the Beginning Narrative Artist
Abby Geni: Writing Back Story
Karen Russell: From an interview by David Naimon

Bulletin 107

Bulletin 107, December, 2015
S.P. MacIntyre: 24 Rules for Writing
Melanie Bishop: The Writing Practice: Methodology and Camaraderie

Bulletin 106

Bulletin 106, November, 2015
A. Campbell: The Wars of Vocation
Douglas W. Milliken: A Weapon or a Crutch
Noy Holland: Punctuation Is when You Feel It

Bulletin 105

Bulletin 105, October, 2015
David James Poissant: How to Balance Writing, Family, Work, and Life
Matthew Salesses: Revision as Therapy: I Didn’t Understand My Book Until After I Sold It

Bulletin 104

Bulletin 104, September, 2015
Carmiel Banasky: Do we become better people as we become better writers?
Caleb Leisure: Autograph Seekers
Siamak Vossoughi: On Literary Heroes and Loneliness

Bulletin 103 Essays—August, 2015

Stefanie Freele: It Smacks of Sniveling
Christine Sneed: And So It Begins
Lauren Green: On Building Ships in Bottles
Amalia Melis: A Writing Life After the Greek Referendum

Bulletin 102 Essays—July, 2015

Jennifer Egan: I Knew
Spencer Hyde: Find Your Voice
Samsun Knight: Unspeakable

Bulletin 101 Essays—June, 2015

Jennifer Tseng: The Fire and the Snow
Clare Thompson-Ostrander: The Writometer

Lisa Gornick: An Analyst Teaches the Personal Essay

Bulletin 100 Essays—May, 2015

Lillian Li: I Want You Bad: Can Nice People Make for Good Characters?
Christine Sneed: What a Character! Incorporating a Living Person into a Work of Fiction
Courtney Sender: Narrative Arc in the Novel

Bulletin 99 Essays—April, 2015

Christa Romanosky: Vulnerability and Human Connection
Aline Ohanesian: On Rejection
Andy Roe: Be the Tortoise, Not the Hare
Mojie Crigler: This Ain't Your Grandma’s Publishing Industry

Bulletin 98 Essays—March, 2015

Zeynep Ozakat: It's High School Biology Class All Over Again and Here's Your Frog. His Name Is Kafka
Patrick Hicks: Writing What You Don't Know
Sean Bernard: Just Add Cowboy
Daniel Torday: The Monster Scale

Bulletin 97 Essays—February, 2015

Nellie Hermann: The Fog of Creation
Mark Wisniewski: At Some Point, We All Have Nothing to Say
Julia Strayer: In Search of Art

Bulletin 96 Essays—January, 2015

Stefani Nellen: Some Things I Didn't Realize About Myself Before I Wrote Them Down
William Luvaas: Write Locally
Eva Lomski: On Perseverance

Bulletin 95 Essays—December, 2014

Rowena Macdonald: Writing Dialogue
Selena Anderson: Want
George Saunders: On the Preconceptual World
Melissa Sipin: To My Unknown Daughter

Bulletin 94 Essays—November, 2014

John Thornton Williams: Indirection of Image
Aurelie Sheehan: My City (or, On the Idea of Making It My Own)
Peter Turchi: Puzzle and Mystery
Greg Schreur: The Creative Process: A Diuretic Metaphor

Bulletin 93 Essays—October, 2014

Claire Luchette: I Have Become the Woman on the Street
Elizabeth Kadetsky: The Art of Distraction
Ron Savage: The Next Most Important Thing to Writing It

Bulletin 92 Essays—September, 2014

Amina Gautier: Joy of Revision
Michael Varga: Find the Seeds in Your Own Biography

Bulletin 91 Essays—August, 2014

Caro Beth Clark: Excuses, Pobrecita
Josh Weil: Sow Your Seeds, Plant Your Rows
Sabina Murray: Worrying the Culture Toward Peace

Bulletin 90 Essays—July, 2014

Julian Zabalbeascoa: Smash the Blasted Scales
Celeste Ng: On Leaving Space for the Reader
Sandra Hunter: One of Your Most Valuable Writing Tools

Bulletin 89 Essays—June, 2014

Douglas W. Milliken: The Least Important Person in the Room
Ruth Ozeki: But If You Start Thinking
Bret Anthony Johnston: What the World Looks Like to a Hammer

Bulletin 88 Essays—May, 2014

Monica Byrne: Idols & Peers
Melanie Lefkowitz: The Blank Page
Brian Gresko: Having Children Might Actually Help Your Writing

Bulletin 87 Essays—April, 2014

Lee Montgomery: The Apprentice
Lisa Catherine Harper: Using The Writer's Notebook: A Practical Guide
David James Poissant: On Relentlessness, Or, How To Make Submitting Your Superpower

Bulletin 85 Essays—March, 2014

Courtney Sender: The Ability to Desire a Thousand
Beth Ann Fennelly: On Collaboration
Andrew Porter: If There's Something There

Bulletin 85 Essays—February, 2014

Natasha Tamate Weiss: The Place Where Writing Grows
Molly Antopol: On Quelling Writerly Doubts
Celeste Ng: Writing the (Quiet) Omniscient Narrator
Peter Sipe: Some Material May Not Be Suitable for Children

Bulletin 84 Essays—January. 2014

Barbara Ganley: On Learning to Tell It True
Benjamin Percy: The Dance of the Flaming Chainsaws
Dawn Sewell McKeever: Advice to Aspiring Writers: "Write Like Hemingway"
Rachel Cantor: On Roman Architecture and Crayon-Colored Sleeping Togs

Bulletin 83 Essays—December, 2013

Mark Hitz: On Shortcuts
Joan Wickersham: On Being Interrupted, or The News from Porlock
Carrie Brown: Listening to the Majestic Silence of Visual Art

Bulletin 82 Essays—November, 2014

Roxana Robinson: Reading Before Writing
Samsun Knight: Habits
Laura van den Berg: It Is All Ours to Make
Ming Holden: Empathy
Lisa Gornick: The Writer-Traveler

Bulletin 81 Essays—October, 2014

Abby Geni: Building a Collection of Stories
Justin Kramon: You're a Fiction Writing Professor
Kimberly Bunker: The Fear of Not Saying Interesting Things
R. Clifton Spargo: Why Write Historical Fiction?
Catherine O'Flynn: Why I Chose to Write About a Father-Son Relationship

Bulletin 80 Essays—September, 2014

Xhenet Aliu: On Being Not a Writer
Philip Tate: Cutting the Hemingway
Carrie Brown: A Picture and a Thousand Words

Bulletin 79 Essays—August, 2014

Gillian Burnes: Two Minds
Dennis Bock: Poking the Tiger—Thoughts on Characterization and Story-Building
Tracy Guzeman: What We Settle For
Tom Kealey: The Dialogue Zone: When Characters Take Over

Bulletin 78 Essays—July, 2014

Ming Holden: Meaningful Dialogue
Christopher Lukas: My "Writing Career" Was an Accident
E.A. Durden: Against Decency: Leading Your Characters Astray
Ron Savage: Notes on the Not So Secret First Rule of Writing

Bulletin 77 Essays—June, 2014

Melissa R. Sipin: Write What Haunts You
Edwin Rozic: From Myth to Meh
D M Gordon: On Multiple Drafts
Joe Vastano: Polyphony in Fiction—What Is It, and What Is It Good For?

Bulletin 76 Essays—May, 2014

Ella Mei Yon: Finding a Way In
Benjamin Percy: Method Writing
Daniel Wallace: Notes Toward Future Works
Michelle Richmond: On the Joys of Not Finishing What You Started
Lance Weller: Gut. Or, Never Knowing the Next Word.
Robert Powers: Thieving Time

Bulletin 75 Essays—April, 2014

Siamak Vossoughi: The Political Lives of Characters
Allison Amend: Dear Younger Writing Self
Joshua Henkin: Humming Fiction
Gregory Spatz: What We Talk About When We Talk About Change

Bulletin 74 Essays—March, 2014

Vi Khi Nao: Literary Fabric
William Luvaas: ON REVISION / REVISION
Matthew Salesses: Being Open to Opportunities
Joyce Thompson: The Fan Letter

Bulletin 73 Essays—February, 2014

Christopher Marnach: Apocalypse Not
Aria Beth Sloss: Acting on Faith
Steve Adams: Your Sanctuary
Susan Jackson Rogers: Closing the Gap: Moving from Notebook to Story

Bulletin 72 Essays—January, 2013

Soma Mei Sheng Frazier: Frame Game
Anthony Doerr: Am I Still Here?
Kate Gale: Find Someone Who Is a Stakeholder in Your Writing Life, Find a Few Someones

Bulletin 71 Essays—December, 2012

Doug Lawson: Eating the Thousand-Year Egg
Micah Nathan: A Fatalist's Manifesto
Geoff Wyss: Character and Mystery

Bulletin 70 Essays—November, 2012

Natalie Sypolt: The Risk, the Reward of "Writing What You Know"
Josh Henkin: Consequence and Agency in Fiction
Maggie Shipstead: Focus
David Ebenbach: Turquoise Shoes: Short Stories Care About the Little Things

Bulletin 69 Essays—October, 2012

Josh Swiller: Twelve Tips on Writing
Louise Farmer Smith: On Betraying Family
Hugh Sheehy: Getting Outside
John M. Keller: Keep Away
Gregory Spatz: Story Endings with Staying Power

Bulletin 68 Essays—September, 2012

Karen Brown: The Story That Will Not Write Itself
Joe Bunting: Eight Writing Techniques to Win You a Pulitzer
Stefani Nellen: Things to Do in German When You're Bored
Sybil Baker: Writing the Unfamiliar: Incorporating Different Cultures and Lands in Your Fiction

Bulletin 67 Essays—August, 2012

Johanna Skibsrud: This Will Be Difficult to Explain: What is writing? Why do we write?
Benjamin Percy: Where's Papa Going with that Axe?
Micah Nathan: Selectively Stubborn

Bulletin 66 Essays—July, 2012

Danielle Lazarin: Becoming a Mapbuilder
Andrew Porter: Looking Back
Stefanie Freele: The Mistakes I've Made and The Wonders to Howl About

Bulletin 65 Essays—June, 2012

Silas Dent Zobal: All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed.
Natalie Bakopoulos: Whose Are You?
Josh Henkin: Risk

Bulletin 64 Essays—May, 2012

Daniel Torday: The Secret Lives of Novellas
Syed Ali Haider: Heavy Lifting
Gregory Spatz: Finding "The Shape of a Man"
Michael Poore: The Story of Writing a Story

Bulletin 63 Essays—April, 2012

Brad Beauregard: Where Can I Find Some Style?
Kim Brooks: Violent Ends
Kurt Rheinheimer: Cars
Amalia Melis: Sunday Morning, Pireos Street

Bulletin 62 Essays—March, 2012

Eugene Cross: A Powerful Sort of Doubt
Jonathan Freiberger: Burying Henry Miller
Samantha Shea: Q&A with an agent

Bulletin 61 Essays—February, 2012

David Goguen: Ballad of a Sentence Writer
Yelizaveta P. Renfro: Creating The Fictional Family: No character is an island

Bulletin 60 Essays—January, 2012

Kate Gale: What should you expect of yourself as a writer? What should you expect of your characters?
Joseph Vastano: Into the Sublime
Bret Anthony Johnston: What Every Fiction Writer Can Learn About Plot From That Lovable, Furry Old Grover

Bulletin 59 Essays—December, 2011

Joshua Henkin: From the Roots of Character Grow the Branches of Plot
Janis Hubschman: Steal This List
Jon Chopan: Teaching and Purpose
Jimmy Olsen: Finding the Right Words

Bulletin 58 Essays—November, 2011

Daniel Torday: A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Parent
Karen Malley: Toddlers, Cogs, Trees, and Mechanical Butterflies: What a Story is Not
Michael Schiavone: Why I Don't Write Today
Laura Oliver: Territory

Bulletin 57 Essays—October, 2011

Will Boast: Cutting out the Bad Bits
Sanja Jagesic: Why I Write
K. L. Cook: The Pleasures of Form
Patricia Henley: Of Muscle Cars and Newfound Faith

Bulletin 56 Essays—September, 2011

Lynne Barrett: What Editors Want; A Must-Read for Writers Submitting to Literary Magazines
Philip Tate: Deep Time
Melanie Rae Thon: The Heart Breaks, and Breaks Open: Seven Reasons to Tell a Story in 2011

Bulletin 55 Essays—August, 2011

Susan Messer: Novelist Needs Realistic Details: Research for Fiction Writers
James Smart: A Beginner on Beginning
Yelizaveta P. Renfro: Making Lists

Bulletin 54 Essays—July, 2011

Peter Ho Davies: Laying Fiction over History
Rebecca Podos: Choosing the Details
Kevin Haworth: Reading Beyond Genre

Bulletin 53 Essays—June, 2011

Terrence Cheng: On 9/11
Melissa Yancy: Playing the Odds
Cary Groner: A Few Words about Conflict
Lee Martin: Taming the Shaggy Beast: Letting Your Novel Write Itself

Bulletin 52 Essays—May, 2011

Joanna Arnow: Writing Groups
Anna North: Keeping Them Separate: When Writing Is Also Your Day Job
Ursula Hegi: Did This Really Happen to You?

Bulletin 51 Essays—April, 2011

Matt Lapata: Niche
Dana Kroos: I Know Why the Earth Doesn't Touch the Sky
Margaret DeAngelis: Color and Connection

Bulletin 50 Essays—March, 2011

Stefanie Freele: On Gathering Material
Lisa Catherine Harper: Writing and Parenting: Finding a Balance
Melanie Bishop: Something Happens

Bulletin 49 Essays—February, 2011

Laura Furman: A few notes on writing
Clayton Luz: Writing Above Your Head
Jennifer Tomscha: Fruitfulness

Bulletin 48 Essays—January, 2011

Lee Martin: Make It Memorable: Deepening Character
Michelle Richmond: On Accidentally Finding Your Way

Bulletin 47 Essays—December, 2010

Lydia Fitzpatrick: Characters, Unfettered
Lisa Catherine Harper: Fiction for the Future

Bulletin 46 Essays—November, 2010

Kathryne Young: On Writing, Not Writing, and the Writing Life
Lori Ann Stephens: Wrangling with Characters
Christopher Bundy: On Revision
Evan Lavender-Smith: Chekhov's Ironic Pathos

Bulletin 45 Essays—October, 2010

Benjamin Percy: All In
J. Kevin Shushtari: Learning To Trust Your Reader
Justin Kramon: Improving My Plotting Skills
Paola Corso: From Without and From Within

Bulletin 44 Essays—September, 2010

Nona Caspers: The Horse
Ron Savage: The Ten Things I've Learned Writing Fiction
Patrick Hicks: Begin with Something True

Bulletin 43 Essays—August, 2010

Charles Baxter: Revelations
Olufunke Grace Bankole: Going Solo
Peter Ho Davies: On Form
Tom Grimes: Memoir Writing

Bulletin 42 Essays—July, 2010

Jenny Zhang: The Truth
Nic Brown: Make It Easy
Thomas E. Kennedy: A Small Press Writer in the Big City
Justin Kramon: Musical Inspiration

Bulletin 41 Essays—June, 2010

Jenny Hollowell: Learning to Write
John Stazinski: Rejecting the Reasonable Explanation
Malena Watrous: Setting Matters
Steven Polansky: Starting

Bulletin 40 Essays—May, 2010

Selena Anderson: Saddle Shoes
Susann Cokal: On Coincidence and What Was Meant to Be
Peter Gordon: Married to My Work

Bulletin 39 Essays—April, 2010

Thomas E. Kennedy: Cutting Up to Free Your Instinct
Paul Michel: Singing in the Shower
Aria Beth Sloss: Behold the Beast

Bulletin 38 Essays—March, 2010

Stephanie Soileau: Fiction Is a Wilderness
Josh Henkin: The Best-Laid Plans
Allison Amend: Do-It-Yourself Book Tour

Bulletin 37 Essays—February, 2010

Terrence Cheng: Rejection
Eric Puchner: The Land of Underwater Birds
D M Gordon: Multiple Drafts

Bulletin 36 Essays—January, 2010

Cary Holladay: I Want My Basket
Gina Ochsner: Who Wins?
David Rothman: Muse Lost, Muse Found
Andrew Porter: The Long First Draft

Bulletin 35 Essays—December, 2009

Carrie Brown: Skirting a Dark Shore
Andrew Kass: Two Epiphanies
Josh Henkin: Risk

Bulletin 34 Essays—November, 2009

Evan Christopher Burton: A posteriori
Barb Johnson: On Getting a Late Start

Bulletin 33 Essays—October, 2009

J.P. Lacrampe: Humor in Fiction
Eric Wasserman: Avoiding the Corner

Bulletin 32 Essays—September, 2009

Ingrid Hill: The Devil's Trampoline
Charles Baxter: Five Questions

Bulletin 31 Essays—August, 2009

Noa Jones: How Not to Go Nuts
Paul Griner: Researching and Writing
George Rabasa: Memory, Imagination, Research

Bulletin 30 Essays—July, 2009

Randolph Thomas: Making Stories Out of Stories
Lynn Ahrens: The Music of Words
Josh Henkin: Risking Failure

Bulletin 29 Essays—June, 2009

Justin Torres: We Bullshit
Josh Weil on Breathing Room

Bulletin 28 Essays—May, 2009

Rollie Hochstein: Life Class
Maggie Shipstead: Going Home
Annie Dawid: From Transcript to Fiction
Thomas E. Kennedy: A Writer Is Someone Who Writes

Bulletin 27 Essays—April, 2009

Jeremiah Chamberlin: Workshop Is Not for You
Erica Johnson Debeljak: Writing the Memoir (Twice!)
Aaron Gwyn: Trouble

Bulletin 26 Essays—March, 2009

Cary Groner: on One Perspective on Learning to Write
Ken Barris: Blood on the Floor

Bulletin 25 Essays—February, 2009

Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig: Strategies for Revision
Steve Almond: From an interview by Aaron Gilbreath

Bulletin 24 Essays—January, 2009

Karen Outen: on How I Learned to Love Revision
Bruce McAllister: About Writing

Bulletin 23 Essays—December,2008

Abby Geni: The Gift of Research
Sean Beaudoin: Chess for Refills

Bulletin 22 Essays—November, 2008

Michael Schiavone: Must I Write?
Aria Sloss: Field Notes

Bulletin 21 Essays—October, 2008

Nellie Hermann: The Curious Border between Fiction and Nonfiction
David Allan Cates: Stories
Louis Gallo: Place and Apocalypse: Post-Katrina New Orleans as Fictional Set

Bulletin 20 Essays—September, 2008

Shimon Tanaka: Literature and Belief
Josh Henkin: Pleasing Contradictions
Patricia Henley: The Potholder Model of Literary Ambition

Bulletin 19 Essays—August, 2008

John S. Walker: Story of My Stories
Roxana Robinson: Hackneys, Huskies
Michael Schiavone: Why I Wanted To Kill My Instructor and How He Got Me Published

Bulletin 18 Essays—July, 2008

Terrence Cheng: Idol Worship
Patrick Hicks: Writing Stories, Teaching Students
Lin Enger: Echoes in the Woods

Bulletin 15 Essays—April, 2008

Catherine Ryan Hyde: Another Perspective on Rejection