For today's Throwback we're taking lessons from Brian Doyle's uncertainty and Ana Maria Spagna's astute observations in "On 'How We Wrestle is Who We Are' from Assay 4.1. 🫀 Read the full article here: buff.ly/IaYVIuc #AssayJournal #ThrowbackThursday #Nonfiction #analysis #craft

This week we are pulling from Assay 3.1 for today's article spotlight. Written by Lynn Z. Bloom, "The Great American Potluck Party" draws upon a holiday tradition for metaphor & multiple sources when defining the essay. Read Bloom in full here: buff.ly/qmVbgIA #AssayJournal #AssaySpotlights #CNF

"The artistry and the magic happen in the selection and arrangement of the materials." -Donovan Hohn, on comparing Joseph Cornell boxes to nonfiction essays Read Donovan's full 2020 full interview here: buff.ly/pf3yxUk 📸 lucidfrenzy.blogspot.com #AssayJournal #AssayInterviewProject #Interview

Look back w/ us on our first issue w/ Robert Brooke's "Teaching 'Rhetoric: The Essay.'" Brooke focuses on the concept of the "life soundtrack essay" & "application essay" to teach about nonfiction forms. 🔗 buff.ly/33FT7Ab 📸 The New York Public Library (Unsplash) #AssayJournal #Pedagogy #CNF

*opens internet* *closes internet* *reads an essay to feel something*

For today's syllabi Sunday, we're focusing on Walters's "Memoir and Journal Writing" course from University of Minnesota Duluth. Read the full syllabus here: buff.ly/4Dmdk0j Photo by Evie S. on Unsplash #AssayJournal #SyllabiSunday #nonfiction #memoir #journal #CNF #literaryjournalism

Let your writing career grow stronger--submit to us! Assay’s submissions are open year-round, so submitting with us is always the right time. View our full submission guidelines and submit your work here: buff.ly/gKWktDt #AssayJournal #SubmissionsOpen 📸 by Casey Horner on Unsplash

For #FriendsOfAssay today, we're focusing on Bright Flash Literary Review. Submissions of your best compelling memoir (and flash fiction) are accepted on a rolling basis. Head to their website at buff.ly/UrWqFq5 for more info. #AssayJournal #FriendsOfAssay #BrightFlashLiteraryReview

For Throwback Thursday we're spotlighting Ashley Espinoza's "A Las Mujeres: Hybrid Identities in Latina Memoir" from Assay 9.1. Espinoza examines Latina identity and how to hold & work with hybrid identity within memoir. Read the full article here: buff.ly/LnEfzkW #AssayJournal #ThrowbackThursday

Today, we're focusing on children and their often underestimated power. In Assay issue 9.2, Jeannine Ouellette explores why child narrators are uniquely effective in adult creative nonfiction. Read Ouellette's article here: buff.ly/tUlStDu #AssayJournal #ArticleSpotlights #Nonfiction

Today we're spotlighting Vivian Wagner's "Crafting Digression" from Assay 5.1. Wagner argues that gamification can lead to modes of digression that are novel and new for creatives. 🎮 Read the full interview here: buff.ly/Jd2pHUV #AssayJournal #AssayInterviewProject #Interview #Gamification

Celebrate pedagogy this Monday with us by diving into D. Shane Combs's "Go Craft Yourself: Conflict, Meaning, and Immediacies Through J. Cole’s 'Let Nas Down,'" where Cole's lyrics teach the difference between first impulses and crafted responses. Read here: buff.ly/PbCkesv #pedagogy #nonfiction

What compels people to make courageous decisions or take actions that are countercultural? Answer this question and more this Syllabi Sunday. Read the full syllabus here: buff.ly/f4pWjIH Photo by Mykhailo Amirdzhanian on Unsplash #AssayJournal #Syllabus #TeacherResources #LessonPlans #CNF

The cold is biting but we are staying warm! Help Assay grow by submitting your work, and together we’ll nurture the voices that help others burn brighter. View our full submission guidelines and submit your work here: buff.ly/gKWktDt Photo by Martin Grazer on Unsplash

In solidarity with MN's Day of Truth and Freedom general strike scheduled for Friday, Jan 23, Assay's offices are closed. Normal hours resume Saturday. Our contributors are wonderfully diverse, & Assay would not thrive without their scholarship. We will always amplify your voices. #ICEOutMN

We’re pulling from the Assay Interview Project archives with an interview of Anand Prahlad. Prahlad’s work When We Cease to Understand the World, explores his use of music, science, memoir, and cultural criticism to rethink how narrative and knowledge intersect. Listen here: buff.ly/DUW015Y

We’re highlighting Kim Hensley Owens’s essay “Writing Health and Disability: Two Problem-Based Composition Assignments." Owens offers approaches for teaching writing about health and disability that center on lived experience, critical thinking, and ethical engagement. Read here: buff.ly/voPwaI6

This Syllabus Sunday we are highlighting a nonfiction as literature course from the Assay syllabi bank. Magazine Culture and the Modern American Essay by Professor Ned Stuckey-French. Read the full syllabus here: buff.ly/y44sd0g #Syllabus#TeacherResources#FreeTeachingResources#Teaching#Pedagogy

Tis the season to submit! 🎁❄️ Share your strongest nonfiction scholarship with Assay this winter. We can’t wait to read what you’ve been working on. View our full submission guidelines and submit your work here: buff.ly/SKO12UV #SubmissionsOpen #Pedagogy #Nonfiction #Interviews #TeachingResources

Is your story written in the stars? If so, it might be the perfect fit for Sunspot Literary Journal’s Geminga writing contest. $100 prize for contest winners. Submissions close January 31st. Read their complete guidelines and submit here: buff.ly/QjZAFuH #SubmissionsOpen

We’re revisiting George Estreich’s essay “Ross Gay’s Logics of Delight." Estreich reflects on how Gay’s practice of writing short “delight-essays” reveals joy as a radical gesture, showing that delight can be as urgent, complex, and political as sorrow. Read the article here: buff.ly/LfTb5Lg #TBT

We’re shining a spotlight on Sarah Pape’s essay “Artistically Seeing: Visual Art & the Gestures of Creative Nonfiction." Pape explores how visual art and creative nonfiction intersect, showing how visual practices can reshape how we write and read nonfiction. Read it here: buff.ly/jGWRlyf #Essay

This week we’re pulling from the Assay Interview Project archives with an interview of Sumana Roy. In the conversation, Roy reflects on her book How I Became a Tree, a genre-blending journey into nature, memory, and identity. Read the complete interview here: buff.ly/UuY04Lz #Interview #Writer

Let your ideas snow! ⛄️ Assay is open for submissions, and we’re looking for sharp, thoughtful nonfiction scholarship to brighten the winter months. We hope to see your submission in our inbox! Submit your work here: buff.ly/SKO12UV #SubmissionsOpen#Pedagogy#Nonfiction#Interviews#TeachingResources

Time is closing in! The Muleskinner Journal is closing submissions for their sixteenth journal on December 15th. Check out some of their guidelines below and visit their website to submit your work. Read their complete guidelines and submit here: buff.ly/uk4zM20 #SubmitYourWork #SubmissionsOpen

This Throwback Thursday, we’re revisiting Erin Fogarty Owen’s essay “How to Write Well About Death." Owen examines the craft of writing about death with honesty, care, and humility, arguing that confronting mortality head-on is essential for writers. Read here: buff.ly/OZjhRa2 #ThrowbackThursday

This week we’re shining a spotlight on Jennifer Lang’s essay “When Worlds Collide: Writers Exploring Their Personal Narrative in Context” from Assay 3.2. Lang reflects on how personal life, family, and identity can’t be disentangled from global politics and history. Read it here: buff.ly/FlBc419

This week we’re pulling from the Assay Interview Project archives with an interview of Melanie Hoffert, conducted by Lisa Streckert. In this conversation, Hoffert reflects on writing her memoir Prairie Silence. Read the complete interview here: buff.ly/wPqI4lc #Interview#CreativeNonfiction#Writer

This Pedagogy Monday, we’re highlighting Kozbi Simmons’s “Literacy as Emancipation.” Simmons argues that literacy isn’t just a skill, it’s a form of freedom, identity, and survival for colored students marginalized by traditional English curricula. Read it here: buff.ly/mMT1ACd #Pedagogy

Don’t forget about Assay this fall! We’re coming up on the perfect weather to stay indoors with a hot beverage and submit to literary journals. We hope to see your submission in our inbox! View our full submission guidelines and submit your work here: buff.ly/rRryWpS #SubmissionsOpen #LitMag

This Throwback Thursday, we’re revisiting Assay issue 1.1 with Ned Stuckey‑French’s essay “Our Queer Little Hybrid Thing.” “The essay has also gotten lost under the big tent of terms..." Read the complete article here: buff.ly/vmZg07o #ThrowbackThursday #CreativeNonfiction #CreativeWriting #Queer

This week we’re shining a spotlight on Ashley Anderson’s essay “Give Them Space: Memoir as a Site for Processing Readers’ Grief” from Assay issue 10.1. “Grief is an experience that needs space..." Read the complete article here: buff.ly/ndhvO4o #Nonfiction#CreativeNonfiction#Grief#Memoir#Memory

This week we’re pulling from the Assay Interview Project archives with an interview of Maggie Paxson. “‘Who does what with whom?’ is a foundational question." Read the complete interview here: buff.ly/ODIIZKY #Interview#NonfictionBooks#CreativeNonfiction#AuthorInterview#Anthropology#Narrative

We’re highlighting Jacqueline Doyle’s essay “Shuffling the Cards: I Think Back Through Judith Ortiz Cofer” from Assay issue 4.1. In this piece, Doyle invites educators to re-deal the deck of narrative inheritance. Read more here: buff.ly/PFjuHOJ #Pedagogy #Nonfiction #TeacherResources

This Syllabus Sunday we are highlighting a creative writing workshop course from the Assay syllabi bank. The Personal Essay by Professor Deborah Thompson. Read the full syllabus here: buff.ly/inHTi6l #Syllabus #TeacherResources #LessonPlans #FreeTeachingResources #CreativeNonfiction #Teaching

As we close down spooky week, we want to remind you that Assay is open for submissions year round! We’re seeking essays, pedagogy, and conversations that engage deeply with the craft, history, and theory of nonfiction - spooky and non-spooky! Submit your work here: buff.ly/8BXEzxI #SubmissionsOpen

Quotidiana.org is back! We're so excited that this magnificent nonfiction is resource is back up and running--check it out this from Patrick Madden! buff.ly/kaGI9k6

For spooky week we’re highlighting a literary magazine with a scary short submission period! The Stinging Fly is getting ready to open for submissions starting November 4th and lasting only a short 2 weeks. Spooky! Read their complete guidelines and submit here: buff.ly/ZkAQe9L #SubmissionsOpen

This spooky week Throwback Thursday, we’re revisiting Assay issue 7.1 with August Owens Grimm’s essay “Haunted Memoir.” In this piece, Grimm explores how memoir can become a form of ghost story. Read the complete article here: buff.ly/Bdi5qtw #ThrowbackThursday#Nonfiction#CreativeWriting#Spooky

This spooky week we’re shining a spotlight on Allison Ellis’s essay “Nonfiction Ghost Hunting” from Assay issue 8.1. In this piece, Ellis ventures into the eerie intersection of nonfiction and the supernatural. Read it here: buff.ly/ri1uKyn #EssaysThatMatter #Nonfiction #GhostStories #Spooky

This spooky week we’re pulling from the Assay Interview Project archives with an interview of Gail Griffin. In this chilling conversation, Griffin delves into her book “The Events of October: Murder-Suicide on a Small Campus.” Read the complete interview here: buff.ly/Z0FNp97 #Interview

This spooky week’s Pedagogy Monday we’re revisiting Wendy Ryden’s essay “Liminally True: Creative Nonfiction as Transformative Thirdspace” from Assay issue 6.1. Read it here: buff.ly/J56CR9o #Pedagogy #Nonfiction #TeacherResources #FreeTeachingResources #SpookyWeek #LiminalSpace #Transformation

👻Today marks the first day of spooky week at Assay! 👻 This Syllabus Sunday we are highlighting a Special Topics course from the Assay syllabi bank, an Honors Seminar with a theme of True Crime taught by Professor Amy Monticello. Read the full syllabus here: buff.ly/O6cHFzB #Syllabus #ForTeachers

Autumn is the season for reflection… and for sending out your best work! As the leaves turn, we invite you to share your essays in nonfiction with Assay. Let your words fall into place this season 😊 View our submission guidelines and submit here: buff.ly/7XsiSq4 #SubmissionsOpen

It’s getting down to the wire! Atlantic Northeast Literary Journal is closing submissions for their Winter issue on October 31st. Read their complete guidelines and submit here: buff.ly/m7nxQwg #SubmitYourWork #SubmissionsOpen #CreativeNonfiction #Nonfiction #AtlanticNortheast #LitMag #LitJournal

This Throwback Thursday, we’re revisiting Assay issue 2.2 with William Bradley’s conversation piece “On the Pleasure of Hazlitt.” “But I have to be honest—I enjoy hating things that suck.” Read it here: buff.ly/EyTjj7T #ThrowbackThursday #EssaysThatMatter #CreativeNonfiction #LitMag #Nonfiction

This week we’re shining a spotlight on Joanna Eleftheriou’s essay “Is Genre Ever New? Theorizing the Lyric Essay in Its Historical Context” from Assay 4.1. Read the complete article here: buff.ly/FK2JYCH #Spotlights #EssaysThatMatter #Nonfiction #CreativeNonfiction #Genre #Narrative #Poetry #Prose

This week we’re pulling from the Assay Interview Project archives with an interview of Debra Monroe conducted by Heidi Czerwiec. “I wanted an anthology that reflected the genre now." Read the complete interview here: buff.ly/Btp8hs0 #Interview #EssayBooks #CreativeNonfiction #Anthology #Writing

This Pedagogy Monday we’re highlighting Freesia McKee’s “Where and How We Might Teach Hybrid: A Pedagogical Review of Kazim Ali’s Silver Road.” McKee examines how Ali’s hybrid work can inspire classrooms to blur the boundaries between genres. Read more here: buff.ly/8ldMxSH #Pedagogy #LitMag

This Syllabus Sunday we are highlighting a Literary Editing course from the Assay syllabi bank. Literary Editing and Publishing by Professor Dinty W. Moore. Read the full syllabus here: buff.ly/Yvzn3tl #Syllabus #TeacherResources #LessonPlans #FreeTeachingResources #CreativeNonfiction #Pedagogy