The Writer’s Chronicle
First established in 1967 as the AWP Newsletter, the Writer’s Chronicle serves as a leading source of information for writers, editors, students, and teachers of writing. Each issue features writing news, essays on craft, and interviews with authors. The Writer’s Chronicle is for those who love reading and writing.
Current Issue: April 2024
Featured Articles
- The Chaos Agents: A Conversation with Caitlin Horrocks and W. Todd Kaneko
- Still Very Much Me: On Becoming a Mother and Not Becoming an Art Monster
- Ready to Dream Again: A Conversation with A. Van Jordan
- On Avoiding Melodrama and the Occasional Ditch
- The Mask and the Unmasking: What Poets and Actors Share
- The Best of Both Genres: The Rise of the Novel in Verse
Sample Articles
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Chikodi Adeola Olasode |
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Anna Leahy |
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Christopher Kempf |
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Elizabeth Bradford, Lucille Lang Day, Alison Hawthorne Deming, Ann Fisher-Wirth, & Allison Adelle Hedge Coke |
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Brian Brodeur |
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Deborah Bacharach & Dia Calhoun |
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Tim Waggoner |
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Michael Colbert |
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Philip Metres |
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J.D. Scrimgeour |
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Chapman Hood Frazier |
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Sara Hailstone |
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Alicia Ostriker |
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Debra Spark |
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Richard Goodman |
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Patrick Moran |
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Aviya Kushner, Sharon Dolin, Katherine E. Young, Andrea Jurjevic, Nancy Naomi Carlson |
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Jasmine V. Bailey |
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Cathleen Schine |
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Jasmin Attia |
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Jonathan Harrington |
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Ann Jacobus and Nancy Bo Flood |
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In the Note Between Notes, In Round Sound of Breath: A Conversation with Kazim Ali |
Karthik Purushottaman |
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Poetry Grabbed Me by the Collar: An Interview with Eli Clare |
Kathi Wolfe |
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E. Ethelbert Miller |
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Kathi Wolfe |
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Catastrophe and Survival: Women Ecopoets Navigate Pathways Past Denials: |
Camille T. Dungy, Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, Brenda Hillman, Sandra Meek, & Aimee Nezhukumatathil |
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Eileen Cronin |
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Emily Carr |
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Debra Spark |
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Michael C. White |
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"Embracing my tribe of writers": A Conversation with Sue William Silverman |
Supriya Bhatnagar |
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Annie Finch |
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David Naimon |
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Middle Passage at 25: Charles Johnson Reflects on His National Book Award–Winning Novel and More |
Robin Lindley |
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Fred D'Aguiar |
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Ferguson, Whiteness as Default, & the Teaching of Creative Writing |
David Mura |
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Claudia Rankine |
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William Naparsteck |
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The Quarrel with Ourselves: Robert Penn Warren’s “World of Action and Liability” |
Natasha Trethewey |
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The Master Craftsman: Function Follows Form in Henry James’s The Portrait of a Lady |
Douglas Bauer |
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Ars Poetica and the Talking Cure: Poetry, Therapy, & the Quest to Create |
Lisa C. Krueger |
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Andy Fogle |
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Shine in that Vivid Isolation: A Case Study of the Ghazal in the Contemporary American Lyric |
Tyler Mills |
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Rosellen Brown, Tracy Daugherty, & Ellen Meeropol |
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Hugh Ryan |
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Steven Schwartz |
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Chapman Hood Frazier |
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Martha Cooley |
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Remica L. Bingham |
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Jona Colson |
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Elizabeth Eshelman |
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Aimee Liu |
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Molly Giles |
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Natasha Sajé |
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Like Water Remembering Light: An Interview with Marilyn Nelson |
Leslie McGrath |
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Karin de Weille |
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Martha Cooley |
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Alice Mattison |
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Christopher Buckley |
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Machines Made Out of Words: Translating Function & the Translator's Function |
Tony Barnstone |
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Brian Baldi |
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The Meandering River: An Overview of the Subgenres of Creative Nonfiction |
Sue William Silverman |
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Reginald Shepherd |
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Alan Cheuse |
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Aural Invention as Floral Splendor: Louis Zukofsky's Vision of Natural Beauty in 80 Flowers |
Leon Lewis |
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Beautiful Clarity: Jane Kenyon, Anna Akhmatova, and the Luminous Particular |
David Harbilas |
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Ouija, Canoe, Haiku: A Collaborative Inquiry into Collaborative Poetry |
Isaac Cates & Chad Davidson |
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Elizabeth Alexander |
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Mark Doty |
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Sarah Anne Johnson |
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Sherry Ellis |
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Kaylene Johnson |
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"Imp of Verbal Darkness": Poetry Hoaxes & the Postmodern Politic |
Rebecca Warner |
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Tomas Q. Morin |
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Alan Cheuse |
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Ramola D |
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Rachel Hadas |
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Tom DeMarchi |
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Renée Olander |
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Richard Bausch |
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Gregory Orr |
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Sarah Anne Johnson |
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Marie Jordan |
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Andrew Ciofalo |
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Tony Hoagland |
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André Schiffrin |
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Alice McDermott |
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Jonathan Farmer |
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From Long Shots to X-Rays: Distance & Point of View in Fiction Writing |
David Jauss |
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Renée Olander |
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Jocelyn Bartkevicius |
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Dale Boyer |
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Diana Garcia |
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Valerie Miner |
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Kelleen Zubick |
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Breaking the Code of Silence: Ideology and Women's Confessional Poetry |
Judith Lynn Harris |
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Sven Birkerts |
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Renee Olander |
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Alexander Neubauer |
