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Curated by author Darien Hsu Gee and Writer-ish. Updated regularly with lots of geeky love. 

 

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Nonwhite and Woman: 131 Micro Essays on Being in the World
Allegiance
Fast Funny Women: 75 Essays of Flash Nonfiction
The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
What about the Baby?: Some Thoughts on the Art of Fiction
The Writing Life
Steering the Craft: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story
One Continuous Mistake: Four Noble Truths for Writers
When the Rewards Can Be So Great: Essays on Writing and the Writing Life
The Elements of Style
The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative
Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life
The Art of Perspective: Who Tells the Story
The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative
Writing about Your Life: A Journey Into the Past
Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir
The Memoir Project: A Thoroughly Non-Standardized Text for Writing & Life
Your Life as Story: Discovering the New Autobiography and Writing Memoir as Literature
Tell It Slant, Third Edition
Why We Write about Ourselves: Twenty Memoirists on Why They Expose Themselves (and Others) in the Name of Literature
To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction
Naked, Drunk, and Writing: Shed Your Inhibitions and Craft a Compelling Memoir or Personal Essay (Revised)
Handling the Truth: On the Writing of Memoir
The Art of Memoir
Old Friend from Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir
Writing Hard Stories: Celebrated Memoirists Who Shaped Art from Trauma
Writing the Memoir
Family Resemblance: An Anthology and Exploration of 8 Hybrid Literary Genres
35 Tips for Writing a Brilliant Flash Story: a manual for writing flash fiction and nonfiction
Brevity: A Flash Fiction Handbook
Flash!: Writing the Very Short Story
Shell Game: Writers Play with Borrowed Forms
The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry: Contemporary Poets in Discussion and Practice
The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Nonfiction: Advice and Essential Exercises from Respected Writers, Editors, and Teachers
The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction: Tips from Editors, Teachers, and Writers in the Field
Untamed
The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present
Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage
Recipes for a Sacred Life: True Stories and a Few Miracles
The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir
Eavesdropping: A Memoir of Blindness and Listening
I Could Tell You Stories
Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen
Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
Safekeeping: Some True Stories from a Life
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
All the Wild Hungers: A Season of Cooking and Cancer
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present
Holding Silvan: A Brief Life
Nonwhite and Woman: 131 Micro Essays on Being in the World
Leaping: Revelations & Epiphanies (Anniversary)
Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss
Intimate: An American Family Photo Album
It's Not Yet Dark: A Memoir
You Don't Have to Say You Love Me: A Memoir
Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs
Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions
Safekeeping: Some True Stories from a Life
100 Tricks Every Boy Can Do: A Memoir
Just Breathe Normally
Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977-2002)
This Never Happened
100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write: On Umbrellas and Sword Fights, Parades and Dogs, Fire Alarms, Children, and Theater
Increase
When the Emperor Was Divine
Citizen: An American Lyric
The Buddha in the Attic
World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
Bluets
300 Arguments
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You about Being Creative
Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
The Practice of Poetry: Writing Exercises from Poets Who Teach
Allegiance
Friendship Bread
The Avalon Ladies Scrapbooking Society
Good Things
Family Room
An Avalon Christmas
This Time Tomorrow The Fixed Stars Four Treasures of the Sky
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