Literary MagNet: Joe Wilkins
The nonfiction writer Joe Wilkins highlights journals that have published his essays, including Orion Magazine and River Teeth.
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Small Press Points: Lost Kite Editions
New press Lost Kite Editions, launched earlier this year in Minneapolis, has grown out of a partnership between writers incarcerated in Minnesota prisons and non-incarcerated writers from the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop.
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The New Nonfiction 2026
Essays by debut authors Nita Noveno, Phill Branch, Megan O’Grady, Joseph Trinidad, and Elena Dudum, as well as excerpts from their books.
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Small Press Points: Slant Books
Founded in 2013 by Greg Wolfe and now based in Seattle, Slant Books takes up Emily Dickinson’s encouragement to her reader: “Tell all the truth but tell it slant.”
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Literary MagNet: Mandy-Suzanne Wong
The prose writer Mandy-Suzanne Wong highlights journals that have published some of her surprising, emotive essays on mollusks including Digging Press Journal and Black Warrior Review.
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Toward the Sensuous Form: Transing the Essay
The author of Voice of the Fish: A Lyric Essay (Graywolf Press, 2022) reflects on what a trans essay might look like.
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Toward the Sensuous Form: Embracing New Forms of Knowing in the Essay
The author of Voice of the Fish: A Lyric Essay (Graywolf Press, 2022) considers what it would mean for the essay to embrace new kinds of meaning-making.
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Toward the Sensuous Form: Origins and Possible Trajectories of the Essay
The author of Voice of the Fish: A Lyric Essay (Graywolf Press, 2022) reflects on the ancient origins of the essay form.
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Ten Exceptional Literary Magazines for Nonfiction
The author of American Harvest: God, Country, and Farming in the Heartland identifies exemplary journals publishing nonfiction, where editors seek “a novel point of view, a voice willing to confront the true uncharted territory of the imagination.”
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Ten Questions for Lawrence Burney
“Writing lends itself to filmmaking in terms of structuring a story, but I think filmmaking lends itself to more visually stimulating writing.” —Lawrence Burney, author of No Sense in Wishing
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