As a mother, I know how hard it is to find time to write. In the early years, it was all I could manage to scribble out a short journal entry in a 10-minute burst while someone else held the…
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Spotlight Poetry: An Interview with Kenji C. Liu & Ching-In Chen
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On September 26, poets Kenji C. Liu and Ching-In Chen will read from their latest work as part of our first-ever Spotlight Poetry night. Spotlight readings feature writers whose work transcends, engages, and recontextualizes poetry in the current moment. We…
Micro-Lesson: Goal vs. Need by Jeff Bender
Posted Thu, 9/12/2019 - 9:45am by Guest Contributor | Category: Fiction, Hugo Classes, Micro Lesson, Writing Advice
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There are a lot of names for these two ideas. Whatever we call them, they can shape some of our biggest decisions as storytellers. The Goal, or what Robert McKee (Story) calls the “conscious desire,” is the concrete and unconcealed…
What Can We Learn from Harry Potter? by Karen Finneyfrock
Posted Tue, 9/10/2019 - 9:41am by Guest Contributor | Category: Fiction, Hugo Classes, Writing, Writing Advice
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It was July 2007 and I was in line outside the bookstore at quarter to midnight. I was in Maryland and the mosquitos were still biting and the heat of the day clung to the sidewalk. I was only a…
Lyric Essay 101 by Jessica Mooney
Posted Tue, 9/03/2019 - 9:34am by Guest Contributor | Category: Creative Nonfiction, Hugo Classes, Writing, Writing Advice
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Don’t know what a lyric essay is? Not sure if you’re even intending to write one? Don’t worry! My class, Structuring the Lyric Essay, will explore the lyric essay as a form that can be used to help inspire your…
Titles That Don’t Let You Go by Susanne Paola Antonetta
Posted Tue, 8/20/2019 - 9:45am by Guest Contributor | Category: Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Hugo Classes, Writing, Writing Advice
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Writing a title for a flash fiction or nonfiction piece is like dipping your oar into the roaring water while whitewater rafting. That oar stroke had better do some major work. The flash title is the oar that steers your little…
Writing Prompt: Affected Bodies, Trauma, and Non-Human Encounters by Janice Lee
Posted Thu, 8/01/2019 - 9:45am by Guest Contributor | Category: Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Hugo Classes, Micro Lesson, Poetry, Writing Advice
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What really exists is not things made but things in the making. —William James How other kinds of beings see us matters. That other kinds of beings see us changes things. —Eduardo Kohn In my upcoming class, Memory Space: Inherited…
Navigating to the Heart of the Story by Diana Xin
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I just need to find the right way to write this. This is the refrain that comes up sometimes when I open a new blank document for an old story I’ve tried to write about seven times over the course…
How Do Poems End? by Evelynn Yuen
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One of the most challenging parts of writing a poem is figuring out how to end it. You want the ending to be poignant or beautiful or subversive, but how do you do that? These suggestions are by no means…
Micro Lesson: A Short Meditation on the Glamorous Refusal of No! by Anastacia-Renée
Posted Fri, 7/12/2019 - 4:21pm by Guest Contributor | Category: Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Hugo Classes, Micro Lesson, Poetry, Writing, Writing Advice
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In the beginning of my writing career, it was a given that I’d say “Absolutely” or “Yes” to almost anything asked of me—oftentimes watching others reaping the benefits or, even worse, finding out that the heartfelt energy I’d put into…
Micro Lesson: Dig Deep into Character by Stephanie Kuehnert
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Characters are the reason I write. Their voices lodge themselves in my brain. They tug on my sleeve and insist that I tell their stories. The greatest compliment that I can get as a writer is that my characters stay…
Micro Lesson: Detroit or Kansas? How to Hear the Voices Inside Your Head by Emily Warn and Nadia Imafidon
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Emily’s take: When I say poem, it sounds like pome. I can easily mimic Frances McDormand when she says, “What’s in your BYAG, MA’AM?” (Fargo). My sharp “a’s” (grating to some) are sheep bya, byaing and not bah, bahing. That’s…
Micro Lesson: How to Write Yourself Home by Merna Ann Hecht
Posted Fri, 6/28/2019 - 9:43am by Guest Contributor | Category: Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Hugo Classes, Micro Lesson, Poetry
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“To be an immigrant is to always live in some state of exile, even if its shadow seems to have grown faint inside us; you cannot forget your old homes, no matter how comfortingly familiar your new destination becomes, or…
Micro-Lesson: Writing Travel by Carolyne Wright
Posted Thu, 6/27/2019 - 9:30am by Guest Contributor | Category: Hugo Classes, Micro Lesson, Writing, Writing Advice
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Elizabeth Bishop was the consummate American poet and writer of travel—born in Massachusetts, she was raised there and in Nova Scotia. As an adult she traveled extensively through France, Spain, Ireland, Italy, and North Africa, and she lived for fifteen…
What is Speculative Nonfiction? by Kathleen Alcalá
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la·cu·na (ləˈk(y)o͞onə): n. (plural lacunae). 1. an unfilled space or interval; a gap. (“the journal has filled a lacuna in Middle Eastern studies”). 2. a missing portion in a book or manuscript. 3. (anatomy) a cavity or depression, especially in bone….
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