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Review: Areas of Fog by Will Dowd
Reviewed by Tony KapolkaWeather is the go-to topic for making small talk. Avoid religion and politics; talk about the weather. Nobody causes it, and we’ll all have to deal. Will Dowd, smartly, works...
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Review: Girls Gone Old by Fiona Helmsley
Reviewed by Rachael J. HughesFiona Helmsley’s Girls Gone Old (We Heard You Like Books, August 2017) is a bold and brave memoir of a woman who confronted emergent and continuing female sexuality,...
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Review: The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature by...
Reviewed by Cate HodorowiczIn recent years, scholars and activists have started to question why and how, as geographer Carolyn Finney writes, “we have come to understand/see/envision the environmental...
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WRITING LIFE: Accepting My Blindness As A Freelance Writer by Kerry Kijewski
I am barely six months into this whole freelance writing thing. So far I’ve learned it’s a struggle for nearly everyone who attempts it. It can be inconsistent. You must learn to juggle pitching...
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Winter and Other Seasons by Blake Fugler
Finalist, Remember in November Contest for Creative Nonfiction 2017 “Why do you only cry when you’re sleeping?” I ask her. Her eyes are purple and bruised from lack of rest. Collapsed, like those old...
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Some Sort of Union by Nina Boutsikaris
Finalist, Remember in November Contest for Creative Nonfiction 2017 When she woke in the air force paramedic’s bed, a weak, warm light was spilling through the narrow window that spanned the length of...
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Pulp by Sarah Morris
Finalist, 2017 Remember in November Contest for Creative Nonfiction Pulp. A soft, wet, shapeless mass of material. No fingers or toes or pupils or teeth or hair. Just a heartbeat. Supposedly. Pulp....
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Baptism by Fire by Gwen Erkonen
Finalist, 2017 Remember in November Contest for Creative Nonfiction Most Memorable: November 2017 My pager alarms and the number in the display is one I’ve never seen before. The white-coated audience...
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Taunting the Abyss by Y.L. Fein
Runner-up, 2017 Remember in November Contest for Creative Nonfiction Almost 30 years ago, Mary-Claire King located the region on the genome that became known as the BRCA1 gene. Later it was...
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Helix by Anne Gudger
Winner, 2017 Remember in November Contest for Creative Nonfiction Bare feet in the cool of sand. We stood almost pinky toe to pinky toe, pale pink polish (hers) to cobalt blue (mine). Two five-foot-two...
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