Fall 2023 book recommendations—because go ahead, buy more books!
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The Center blog is teeming with tips and inspiration for starting and maintaining your writing practice.
Why do we write? How do we navigate grief? What gives us hope?
Read Shawna's review of a novel with a built-in writing prompt for you to try.
Shawna Ayoub highlights the technique of using multiple narrators to foster compassion in a story, and offers an exercise so you can practice doing the same.
In honor of Pride month, we encourage you to buy books by LGBTQIA authors from LGBTQIA-owned independent bookstores, starting with these five selections in various genres.
Shawna Ayoub moves "beyond the book review" in not only recommending great books by diverse writers, but highlighting a technique to apply to your own writing.
The clear takeaway, the living arc of this book, is how a love of poetry and a commitment to a writing life, or any artistic life, can bind two people to one another.
Shawna Ayoub highlights the strength of character and intuition in Jennifer Givhan's new novel, and offers a writing exercise to help us achieve a similar effect in our own work.
Shawna Ayoub explores Lisa Kwong's memoir as an example of using chronology to organize a life story, and offers a three-step exercise you can apply to yours.
Shawna Ayoub explores a retelling of a beloved classic and points out how retellings can provide structure and an end point from the start of writing.