Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies

Assay publishes the best critical, pedagogical, and craft-conversational work exploring everything #nonfiction

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Happy Fall! The shiny 10th anniversary issue of Assay is hot off the presses and smelling of apple cider and maple leaves! Grab some hot chocolate and a cozy blanket, and check out the delightful new nonfiction scholarship and pedagogy we have for you!

https://t.co/0j7VtbUcea

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Brand new today on the Assay Interview Project, Molly Tompkins' wonderful interview with Wei Tchou about her new book, Little Seed. Don't miss it!

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It's Submission Saturday! Send us your nonfiction scholarship, your informal craft papers, your pedagogical brilliances--we want to see them!

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Brand new on the Assay Interview Project: Julija Sukys interviews Sarah Viren about her new book, TO NAME THE BIGGER LIE!

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The final piece in our fall issue is the last installment in our six-word memoir spotlight, this one from Katherine Fredlund: "Six Words Toward Knowing and Feeling."

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Today, we're celebrating Gwen Niekamp's "The Case for Situating Olaudah Equiano’s Interesting Narrative in the CNF Classroom and Canon" from our new fall issue!

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The next installment in our Six Word Memoir spotlight in this issue is Jennifer Stewart's "Six-Word Memoirs as Programmatic and Pedagogical Reflection"--don't miss it!

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Today, we're celebrating Peter Wayne Moe's "Grocery Shopping with Leonardo DiCaprio:v On Time, Routines, & Writing"--what kind of writerly rituals have you developed?

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Start your week off right with the second installment from our spotlight on six word memoirs, with Elizabeth Leahy's terrific "Creating Space for Writing Tutor Vulnerability: Six-Word Memoirs in the Writing Center"--don't miss it!

https://t.co/QYkQIXTzsZ

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Start your day with James Allen Hall's wonderful "Wholly Fragmented" from our new fall issue!

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Today, we're celebrating Rachel N. Spear's "Saving Self and Others in Telling: Rhetoric, Stories, and Transformation"--don't miss it!

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We have a marvelous Spotlight feature for you in this issue--four discussions of the six-word memoir as a tool for assessment. First up is Kim Hensley Owens & Yongzhi Miao, with "Six (Words) is Enough: Memoirs for Assessment"--don't miss it!

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It's Submission Saturday! We might have just sent our fall issue out into the world this week, but we're reading for the spring issue and beyond!

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Happy Friday, everyone! To send you off into a delightful weekend, why don't you start with Abby Manzella's "In Search of Delight (à la Ross Gay) at the Art Museum: A Writing Exercise with Pen in Hand"?

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Start your day off right with Jehanne Dubrow's marvelous piece, "The Essay's Volta," from our new fall issue!

https://t.co/mN7QMyGuVs

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Join us as we celebrate our brand new Fall 2024 issue! Up first, you'll want to see @anannadroid's "A Question on Genre: The Binary of the Creative/Theoretical Text in Elif Batuman’s The Possessed"--don't miss it!

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Don't miss these amazing pedagogy pieces!

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So thrilled to have this amazing spotlight on six-word memoirs!

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Check out these fantastic pieces from our Conversations section!

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We're so pleased to have it--thank you!

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There is a tendency to reify a kind of writing binary, which is odd bc many CNF writers do "research" (+ cite academics) while academics find liberation in CW. I'm more interested in how writing is institutionalized.

Thank you, @AssayJournal , for publishing.

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Happy October! The shiny new Fall 2024 issue of Assay (11.1) is hot off the presses and smelling of apple cider and maple leaves! Grab some hot chocolate and a cozy blanket, and check out the new nonfiction scholarship and pedagogy we have for you!

https://t.co/0j7VtbUcea