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

May/Summer 2018 Writer's Chronicle Cover

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
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Sample Articles

Article	Author
A Conversation on Craft with Ursula K. Le Guin	David Naimon
Addressing Structural Racism in Creative Writing Programs	Kazim Ali
Towards a New Creative Writing Pedagogy	Fred D'Aguiar
Ferguson, Whiteness as Default, & the Teaching of Creative Writing	David Mura
In Our Way: Racism in Creative Writing	Claudia Rankine
An Interview with William Least Heat-Moon	William Naparsteck
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
Kurt Brown and What You Can Do for Poetry	David J. Rothman
Balancing Craft & Commitment: Writing Political Fiction	Rosellen Brown, Tracy Daugherty, & Ellen Meeropol
The Postmodern Memoir	Hugh Ryan
The Absence of Their Presence: Mythic Character in Fiction	Steven Schwartz
Novel Anxiety: Notes from the Genre War Trenches	Martha Cooley
Between Starshine & Clay:An Interview with Lucille Clifton	Remica L. Bingham
Turning the Screws of Story Construction with Henry James	Aimee Liu
Odds on Ends	Molly Giles
Poetry & Ethics: Writing About Others	Natasha Sajé
An Interview with Sheryl St. Germain	Allison Schuette
How We Are Changed by the Rhythms of Poetry	Karin de Weille
Sin's Entertainment: On Dante's Inferno	Martha Cooley
Silence & Storytelling	Alice Mattison
Elegy for Desire: Luis Omar Salinas 1937-2008	Christopher Buckley
Machines Made Out of Words: Translating Function & the Translator's Function	Tony Barnstone
The Interval in Writing: What Happens Between Pussycats & Thugs Does Not Stay Between Pussycats & Thugs	Brian Baldi
The Meandering River: An Overview of the Subgenres of Creative Nonfiction	Sue William Silverman
On Difficulty in Poetry	Reginald Shepherd
A Bridge Flung Over the Abyss: On the Work of Italo Calvino	Martha Cooley
My Touchstones	Alan Cheuse
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
An Interview with Rita Dove	Elizabeth Alexander
Return to Sender: Memory, Betrayal, and Memoir	Mark Doty
An Interview with Chang-rae Lee	Sarah Anne Johnson
An Interview with Edward P. Jones	Sherry Ellis
Peering at Privacy in Creative Nonfiction	Kaylene Johnson
"Imp of Verbal Darkness": Poetry Hoaxes & the Postmodern Politic	Rebecca Warner
An Interview with Ai	Tomas Q. Morin
Writing and Moaning	Alan Cheuse
An Interview with Ursula K. Le Guin	Ramola D
The Treasure Trove of Metaphor: More on Poetry Anthologies	Rachel Hadas
An Interview with Nick Hornby	Tom DeMarchi
A Conversation with Dorothy Allison	Renée Olander
Remembering Eudora Welty	Richard Bausch
Poetry and Survival	Gregory Orr
An Interview with Jayne Anne Phillips	Sarah Anne Johnson
An Interview with Li-Young Lee	Marie Jordan
The Muse in the News	Andrew Ciofalo
"Tis Backed Like a Weasel": The Slipperiness of Metaphor	Tony Hoagland
Bend Sinister: A Handbook for Writers	Alice McDermott
From Long Shots to X-Rays: Distance & Point of View in Fiction Writing	David Jauss
The Self as a Literary Construct	Jocelyn Bartkevicius
An Interview with Mark Doty	Dale Boyer
Rules & Reality in Fiction	Ron Tanner
Multicultural Students: Bearing Witness, Willing Power	Frances Payne Adler
Reviewing Literary Citizenship	Valerie Miner
Hypertext: Of Mouse & Man	Sven Birkerts
An Interview with Mary Oliver	Renee Olander
An Interview with Rosellen Brown	Alexander Neubauer
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
Literary Cross-Dressing	Marianne Hauser
Rocks in Our Beds: A Dark Valentine to New England	John Clellon Holmes
The Writer as Midwife	Daniel Halpern
Whole Sight: Notes on New Black Fiction	Charles Johnson
Tendril: A Brief History	Mari Lonano
Solitude or Community: Writing As It is Taught	Donald Justice
Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?	John Clellon Holmes

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Current Issue: May/Summer 2018

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