The Writer’s Chronicle
For over four decades, The Writer’s Chronicle has served as a leading source of articles, news, and information for writers, editors, students, and teachers of writing. Published six times during the academic year, the Chronicle provides diverse insights into the art of writing that are accessible, pragmatic, and idealistic. Each issue features in-depth essays on the craft of writing, as well as extensive interviews with accomplished authors. Readers can also find news on publishing trends and literary controversies; a listing of grants, awards, and publication opportunities available to writers; and a list of upcoming conferences for writers, including AWP’s Annual Conference & Bookfair. Our pages are for those who love reading and writing.
Current Issue: May/Summer 2018
Featuring
On the Value of Science and Art
Looking Straight in the Eyes
From Screen to Page
Parsing Elfland
On Bad Behavior
Interviews with Lydia Millet and David Biespiel
Read more
Sample Articles
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David Naimon |
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Kazim Ali |
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Fred D'Aguiar |
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Ferguson, Whiteness as Default, & the Teaching of Creative Writing |
David Mura |
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 |
The Master Craftsman: Function Follows Form in Henry James’s The Portrait of a Lady |
Douglas Bauer |
Ars Poetica and the Talking Cure: Poetry, Therapy, & the Quest to Create |
Lisa C. Krueger |
David J. Rothman |
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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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Martha Cooley |
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Remica L. Bingham |
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Marjorie Sandor |
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Aimee Liu |
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Molly Giles |
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Natasha Sajé |
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Allison Schuette |
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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 |
Brian Baldi |
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The Meandering River: An Overview of the Subgenres of Creative Nonfiction |
Sue William Silverman |
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 |
Beautiful Clarity: Jane Kenyon, Anna Akhmatova, and the Luminous Particular |
David Harbilas |
Ouija, Canoe, Haiku: A Collaborative Inquiry into Collaborative Poetry |
Isaac Cates & Chad Davidson |
Elizabeth Alexander |
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Mark Doty |
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Sarah Anne Johnson |
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Don Bogen |
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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 |
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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Alice McDermott |
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From Long Shots to X-Rays: Distance & Point of View in Fiction Writing |
David Jauss |
Jocelyn Bartkevicius |
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Dale Boyer |
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Ron Tanner |
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Valerie Miner |
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Sven Birkerts |
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Renee Olander |
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Alexander Neubauer |
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Emily Dickinson, Madonna, Boomers, Busters, the Old Criterion, & the Next Millennium— |
Martin Schecter |
The Great Ventriloquist Act: Gender and Voice in the Fiction Workshop |
Julie Brown |
Marianne Hauser |
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John Clellon Holmes |
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Daniel Halpern |
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Charles Johnson |
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Mari Lonano |
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Donald Justice |
