Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies
Assay publishes the best critical, pedagogical, and craft-conversational work exploring everything #nonfiction
Posts by Jay Kibble and @karenbabine
- For today's Friends spotlight, we're spotlighting The Palisades Review, a journal founded in 2022 & currently open for nonfic submissions of 1000 words or less. Head to their website at buff.ly/BikJD8q to learn more! 📸 Palisades Review #AssayJournal #LitMag #OpenSubmissions #community #nonfiction
- For today's Throwback we're taking lessons from Brian Doyle's uncertainty and Ana Maria Spagna's astute observations in "On 'How We Wrestle is Who We Are' from Assay 4.1. 🫀 Read the full article here: buff.ly/IaYVIuc #AssayJournal #ThrowbackThursday #Nonfiction #analysis #craft
- This week we are pulling from Assay 3.1 for today's article spotlight. Written by Lynn Z. Bloom, "The Great American Potluck Party" draws upon a holiday tradition for metaphor & multiple sources when defining the essay. Read Bloom in full here: buff.ly/qmVbgIA #AssayJournal #AssaySpotlights #CNF
- "The artistry and the magic happen in the selection and arrangement of the materials." -Donovan Hohn, on comparing Joseph Cornell boxes to nonfiction essays Read Donovan's full 2020 full interview here: buff.ly/pf3yxUk 📸 lucidfrenzy.blogspot.com #AssayJournal #AssayInterviewProject #Interview
- Look back w/ us on our first issue w/ Robert Brooke's "Teaching 'Rhetoric: The Essay.'" Brooke focuses on the concept of the "life soundtrack essay" & "application essay" to teach about nonfiction forms. 🔗 buff.ly/33FT7Ab 📸 The New York Public Library (Unsplash) #AssayJournal #Pedagogy #CNF
- *opens internet* *closes internet* *reads an essay to feel something*
- For today's syllabi Sunday, we're focusing on Walters's "Memoir and Journal Writing" course from University of Minnesota Duluth. Read the full syllabus here: buff.ly/4Dmdk0j Photo by Evie S. on Unsplash #AssayJournal #SyllabiSunday #nonfiction #memoir #journal #CNF #literaryjournalism
- Let your writing career grow stronger--submit to us! Assay’s submissions are open year-round, so submitting with us is always the right time. View our full submission guidelines and submit your work here: buff.ly/gKWktDt #AssayJournal #SubmissionsOpen 📸 by Casey Horner on Unsplash
