Craft Capsule: Find Your Metaphor
Poets and writers share their notes on writing in this series of micro craft essays. In the latest installment: developing a metaphorical model for your genre.
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Genre: Creative Nonfiction
National Poetry Month, George Takei’s Graphic Memoir, and More
Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko has died; Abbad Yahya’s novel banned in Palestine; novels about female friendship; and other news.
Dominican University of California
MFA Program
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
San Rafael, CA
Application Deadline:
Mon, 12/01/2025
Application Fee:
$0
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HBO to Air Television Miniseries of Ferrante Novels, Bro Books, and More
Black Mountain Institute acquires the Believer; American Prison Writing Archive receives a $262,000 grant; the public versus the private life of the writer; and other news.
The Zookeeper’s Wife
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Diane Ackerman’s The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story (Norton, 2007) recounts the true story of how keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of lives during the German invasion in Poland. The book has been adapted into a feature film directed by Niki Caro, and stars Jessica Chastain and Johan Heldenbergh.
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Nan Talese’s Rise to Success, Litbait, and More
Bob Dylan to finally accept Nobel Prize this weekend; a recently discovered cache of letters from the suffrage movement; Christopher Soto wins Split This Rock’s social justice and poetry award; and other news.
Pillar of the Community
Photographer Akasha Rabut has documented the Caramel Curves—New Orleans’s first all-female motorcycle club—in a series of portraits over several years. The club has become a unique pillar of their local community, with some seeing the women as role models. Write an essay meditating on a group or a person from your past who unexpectedly made an impact on your community. Were you personally affected by their actions?
AP Style Guide Adds “They” as Singular Pronoun, Writer Automatons, and More
Penguin Random House sales down in 2016; William McPherson has died; fourteen women essayists to read right now; and other news.
PEN Literary Awards, Amazon to Adapt The Underground Railroad, and More
Rigoberto González on the life of the poet outside of publications and awards; a survey of literary nonprofits fighting to protect free speech and the arts; the reality-bending writing of Julio Cortázar; and other news.
Upcoming Deadline: Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant
Applications are currently open for the Whiting Foundation’s second annual Creative Nonfiction Grant. Individual awards of $40,000 are given to up to six writers in the process of completing a book of creative nonfiction.
Creative nonfiction writers currently under contract with a U.S. publisher and at least two years into their contract are eligible to apply. Using the online submission system, submit up to three chapters of a manuscript-in-progress, a signed and dated contract, a progress statement, a letter of reference from the publisher, and two additional letters of reference by May 1. A panel of five anonymous judges will select the winners; the grantees will be announced in the fall. For complete guidelines and eligibility requirements, visit the website or e-mail nonfiction@whiting.org.
Established in 2015, the Whiting Foundation Creative Nonfiction Grant provides support for multiyear book projects that require large amounts of research. The grant’s chief objective is to “foster original, ambitious projects that bring writing to the highest possible standard.” The inaugural grantees were Deborah Baker, Sarah M. Broom, Timothy N. Golden, Joshua Roebke, Sarah Elizabeth Ruden, and John Jeremiah Sullivan.
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