Hybrid Writing and the Story Without an Ending

The author of The Body Alone: A Lyrical Articulation of Chronic Pain contemplates how hybrid writing can capture ongoing stories without neat endings.
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The author of The Body Alone: A Lyrical Articulation of Chronic Pain contemplates how hybrid writing can capture ongoing stories without neat endings.
“Trust yourself enough to know that you don’t need to do backflips for your readers on the page. Just walk straight ahead.” —Aaron Robertson, author of The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America
The author of The Body Alone: A Lyrical Articulation of Chronic Pain contemplates how hybrid writing can capture the nonlinear chronology of pain.
“Take a year, pursue it, and see what happens.” —Afabwaje Kurian, author of Before the Mango Ripens
“The orality and intimacy of the lecture bring it closer to some aspects of lyric poetry than the nonfiction essay.” —Srikanth Reddy, author of The Unsignificant
“There is no point in learning how to sculpt if you don’t know where to get the clay.” —Devika Rege, author of Quarterlife.
The author of Us From Nothing offers an exercise to enhance the body’s role in the act of writing.
“Now, though, years have passed, and I do have more peace about my past and my process. From afar, I can finally see what I was doing, and why.” —Jay Baron Nicorvo, author of Best Copy Available: A True Crime Memoir
The author of Us From Nothing offers an exercise to become mindful of the body’s role in the act of writing.
A novelist based in rural Maine shares how she creates community—by reading her literary ancestors, engaging with living writers all over the state, and hosting an online writers studio—all while dispensing with the archetype of the lonely writer.