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This throwback Thursday we’re revisiting Rachel May’s “The Pen and the Needle: Intersections of Text and Textile in and as Nonfiction.” “We can start to consider stitchery as a form of nonfiction, a work of letters separate from poetry.” Read it here: buff.ly/v290lFT #ThrowbackThursday #Quilting

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Today we’re shining a spotlight on Marco Wilkinson’s essay Self Speaking World from Assay issue 2.2. In this essay, Wilkinson explores the evolving nature of self-narration in creative nonfiction. Read it here: buff.ly/8TQbg9L #AssaySpotlights #EssaysThatMatter #Identity #CreativeNonfiction

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This Sunday we are highlighting a Composition & Rhetoric course from the Assay syllabi bank. An Inquiry Seminar: Adventure, Exploration, and Risk taught by Professor W. Scott Olsen See syllabus for full course description and list of required texts & movies: buff.ly/SnWm0zB #Syllabus#TravelWriting

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🌟New Book Alert!🌟 The Allure of Elsewhere: A Memoir of Going Solo by our very own Karen Babine (@karenbabine) is now out in the world! Take a sneak peek or purchase your own copy here: buff.ly/87TLZJn #CreativeNonfiction #WritersOfInstagram #EssaysThatMatter #ReadMoreBooks #NewBook #MilkweedPress

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This throwback Thursday we’re revisiting Assay issue 8.1 with Theresa Goenner’s The Mania of Language: Robert Vivian's Dervish Essay. “The reader experiences a happy fatigue of having cycled through its plot-like structure…” Read it here: buff.ly/XnZDZdU #ThrowbackThursday #WritingInnovation

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Today we’re shining a spotlight on Randy Fertel’s essay A Taste For Chaos: Creative Nonfiction as Improvisation from Assay issue 1.2. “There is an art to artlessness...” Read here: buff.ly/YWJSNWw #AssayJournal #CreativeNonfiction #EssaysThatMatter #LitMag #Improvisation

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This week we’re pulling from the Assay Interview Project archives with an interview of Chris Arthur conducted by Julija Šukys. Much of the interview focuses on Arthur’s writing process and style. Read the complete interview here: buff.ly/LWeNdXx #Interview #NonfictionBooks

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Check out The Assay Curriculum page over on our website. We have compiled a list of resources from our journal and the “In the Classroom” blog to assist teachers and writers at all levels of writing and teaching nonfiction. Visit here: buff.ly/J1WBcnb #AssayJournal #TeachingResources #Pedagogy

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This Sunday we are highlighting a Form & Theory/Special Topics course from the Assay syllabi bank. Form and Theory of Nonfiction taught by Professor Rachel Toor. Read the full syllabus here: buff.ly/7gsZjPm #Syllabus #TeacherResources #LessonPlans #FreeTeachingResources #CreativeNonfiction

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Looking for the perfect rainy day activity? Consider staying in and submitting to Assay! View our full submission guidelines and submit your work here: buff.ly/2BNbvni Or visit the link in our bio! #AssayJournal #SubmissionSaturday #SubmissionsOpen #SubmitYourWork #Pedagogy #Nonfiction

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This throwback Thursday we’re revisiting Assay issue 9.2 with Jeannine Ouellette’s That Little Voice: The Outsized Power of a Child Narrator. “the voice of a child narrator can crack open a personal story” Read it here: buff.ly/EP5u0cN #ThrowbackThursday #EssaysThatMatter #CreativeNonfiction

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Today we’re shining a spotlight on Nina Boutsikaris’ essay On Very Short Books, Miniatures, and Other Becomings from Assay issue 5.2. “Like the writer who inhabits it, there is no one way for an essay book to be a very short book.” Read it here: buff.ly/4aoUkqa #AssaySpotlights #EssaysThatMatter

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Michael Ramos' book, The After: A Veteran's Notes on Coming Home, is both a meditation on Ramos’ life in active service as well as what came after. In his interview with Sayantani Dasgupta, Ramos discusses formatting, music, and tone. Read here: buff.ly/FZN4hiw #Interview #NonfictionBooks

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Feeling Human Again: Toward a Pedagogy of Radical Empathy by Stephanie Guedet is a pedagogy piece from Assay issue 2.2. Guedet explores how sharing personal narratives in the classroom can cultivate deep, transformative empathy among students. Read it here: buff.ly/hc5zdwt #FreeTeachingResources

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This Sunday we are highlighting a Creative Nonfiction Literature course, The Art of True Crime: Reading in Creative Nonfiction taught by Professor Sarah Viren. Find the full syllabus here: buff.ly/vTdiPWG #Syllabus #TeacherResources #LessonPlans

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Feel like your work is on cloud nine? Submit to Assay and inspire other writers, educators, academics to soar to new heights! View our full submission guidelines and submit your work here: buff.ly/5NSLgJh Or visit the link in our bio! #AssayJournal #SubmissionsOpen

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Announcing our new Social Media Assistant Megan Lutes is a recent BSU graduate, where she received her master's in English studies and her bachelor's in Apparel Design. She is the former asst. managing editor at River Teeth and has been published in PATTERN magazine for both her writing and styling

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This throwback Thursday we’re revisiting Assay issue 9.1 with Emma Winsor Wood’s A Lovely Woman Tapers Off into a Fish: Monstrosity in Montaigne’s Essais. “The monster was thus understood to be a product of the female imagination…” Read here: buff.ly/OKQ0OyM #ThrowbackThursday #EssaysThatMatter

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In our most recent Assay issue, Rhonda Waterhouse unravels Toni Jensen’s essay “Carry” and unpacks the intentionality behind every strand in a braided essay. Read “Woven Craft: The Artistic Tools of Toni Jensen’s ‘Carry’” here: buff.ly/SHCeWW8 #AssaySpotlights #CreativeNonfiction #BraidedEssay

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This week we’re pulling from The Assay Interview Project archives with Edvige Giunta. “The history of labor is the story—the stories—of people, of families, of communities.” Read the complete interview here: buff.ly/EgZKR3U #AssayJournal #AssayInterviewProject #Interview #EssaysThatMatter

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Reminiscing on Assay Issue 7.1 with Freesia McKee’s “Feedback as Fan Letter.” McKee reimagines the act of providing feedback to student writers as an opportunity for genuine connection and encouragement. Read it here: buff.ly/5zswLd2 #AssayJournal #Pedagogy #Nonfiction #WritingFeedback

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This Sunday we are highlighting a Prose Nonfiction Writing Workshop syllabus by Dr. Amy Wright. Find the full syllabus here: buff.ly/qtM2kzS #AssayJournal #Syllabus #TeacherResources #LessonPlans #FreeTeachingResources #WritingWorkshop #NonfictionWorkshop #ProseNonfiction

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The spring flowers are blooming! Help Assay grow by submitting your work, and together we’ll nurture the voices that help others grow. View our full submission guidelines and submit your work here: buff.ly/plsRkHU Or visit the link in our bio! #AssayJournal #SubmissionsOpen

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Submissions to The Cincinnati Review (@cincinnatireview.bsky.social) are now open till the end of May! They strive to publish the most exciting creative and critical work being written today as well as make sure their efforts reflect the diversity of the literary community. #FriendsOfAssay #Submit

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Hey, everybody, You Know Who has decided tomorrow is going to be its book sale--which is, checks notes #IndependentBookstoreDay. 🙄 DON'T buy your books there; DO drop links to your favorite indie bookstores along with a book you think we should order! Let's lift up both stores and authors!

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We're really proud of the Assay Curriculum we've put together over the years--we've taken eleven years of Assay (22 issues) and basically created a free, open source textbook for you and your students! If you haven't seen it--or assigned it--you should! www.assayjournal.com/the-assay-cu...

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It's Submission Saturday! Polish up those craft papers, seminar papers, brief and informal forays into nonfiction texts and writers and ideas and send them to us! Seriously. It's pollen season. We're staying inside. Send us something to read. www.assayjournal.com/submit.html

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It's pollen season here in Tennessee, so we're all vaguely irritated with the trees around us, but Marco Wilkinson's fantastic "Exquisite Copse" might just send us out into the newly budded green--worth adding to your pedagogical repertoire! www.assayjournal.com/marco-wilkin...

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It's no secret we're fans of Brian Doyle around here, so Patrick Madden's open letter one of our favorites is a great way to start your Thursday. What's your favorite Doyle essay? buff.ly/WBn1SNl

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Here's a timely offering from our new spring 2025 issue of Assay--Kelly Myers and Bruce Ballenger tackle the thorny subject of generative AI in the classroom and what essayism has to offer the conversation! www.assayjournal.com/kelly-myers-...

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The celebration of our new Spring 2025 issue continues! Today, spend some time with Thomas Larson's marvelous piece, "The Reader's Mental Ear" and let us know who will you go out of your way for to attend a reading, just because they're marvelous at the performance of it? buff.ly/F8Ems8a

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"have you tried writing stories with ChatGPT???" "no, I'm actually an interesting person"

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So glad to lift up this list of mixed race memoirs for @electricliterature.com electricliterature.com/8-memoirs-ab...

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In the latest issue of Assay, @matthewbutler.bsky.social and I co-wrote a piece about empathy and how important it is to both of our jobs: teaching creative nonfiction and treating cancer patients.

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Lovely to see Michael Ramos' new interview highlighted here!

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Start your Monday off right with the newest installment from our brand new Spring 2025 issue! Amy Cook considers the craft of 9/11 literature in "Where There’s Smoke, There’s Blue Sky: The Hallmarks of 9/11’s Imagery in Prose"--don't miss it! www.assayjournal.com/amy-cook-whe...

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We're really proud of our community pedagogy resources--but our syllabi bank needs some fresh ideas! If you're teaching a CNF class--of any type--send it to us to archive for the community. And no, it doesn't need to be perfect or groundbreaking somehow--it just needs to be yours! buff.ly/EnXI2Pe

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Hey, hey, we might have just launched our new issue, but we're reading for our Fall 2025 issue and beyond, so polish up your craft papers, articles, pedagogy, and blog posts and send them our way! (It'll give us something to do while we're stuck inside hiding from pollen...) buff.ly/rSclnnq

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Fresh from our new Spring 2025 issue, Lynn Z. Bloom's marvelous interview with Justin Martin about his biography of Frederick Law Olmsted--don't miss it! buff.ly/LqDdVjT

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Becky Blake and Matthew Butler's interview "Avoiding Empathy Fatigue: What CNF Educators Can Learn from an Oncologist" from our brand new spring issue seems particularly good timing, considering the weight of the world. Check it out!

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It's so dang good--and so necessary in the world right now.

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Brand new from our new Spring 2025 issue, Megan Brown considers the work and function of Quit Lit--don't miss it!

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If we've published you and you're not in our Contributors Starter Pack, let us know and we'll add you-- The rest of you--go follow these geniuses and read their work! go.bsky.app/QV7bAkK

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Does your classroom need a breath of fresh air? Come check out the pedagogy we have for you in our brand new spring issue! www.assayjournal.com/112-pedagogy...

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New informal analysis in our Conversations section, accompanied by two brand new interviews in the Assay Interview Project! www.assayjournal.com/112-conversa...

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Look at these wonderful new articles we have for you from our brand new spring issue! Don't miss them! www.assayjournal.com/112-articles...

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No foolin'! The Spring 2025 issue of Assay is here and it's chock full of wonderful articles, conversations, and pedagogy to brighten your spring morning! www.assayjournal.com

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