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Personal Essays: What, How, Who, and Why by Michael Naghten Shanks

Posted by Michael Naghten Shanks in Personal Essays.

What is the personal essay? The personal essay is the freest form of literature: this also makes it the hardest to define. Broadly speaking, it can be broken into two...

Writing Great Personal Essays: Really Useful Links by Ellen Brickley

Posted by Ellen Brickley in Essential Guides, Links for Writers, Personal Essays.

The word ‘essay’ strikes fear into many hearts, with its connotations of heavy academic papers or boring school assignments. Essays don’t need to be dull – some of the best...

Writing about Writing by Corina Duyn

Posted by Corina Duyn in Better Non-Fiction Guides, Blogging, Personal Essays.

Part of our identity and our abilities may be hidden away like treasures at the bottom of the sea until we are forced to find them. Tobi Zausner – When Walls Become...

Memoir: Why Fact is Stranger Than Fiction by Alana Kirk

Posted by in Personal Essays, Writing Memoir.

The wonderful Nora Ephron summed it up beautifully when she said in one of the essays from her memoir I Hate my Neck: “ I can’t believe how real life...