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THE CLASSROOM CORNER

We often hear from creative writing instructors that they find CRAFT to be very useful in the classroom. We listened, and we've made this corner as a quick resource, a curated list of some of our favorites. This list is NOT exhaustive—our pages are full of short fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, critical essays, interviews, roundups of all things literary, and more. This is a handy place to start!

We will continually update this list, so check back when making those syllabi, and for quick inspiration anytime.

Image is the book cover for HER NEW EYES by T. J. Martinson; title card for the new interview with Kari Shemwell.

Interview: T. J. Martinson

May 21, 2025

  In T. J. Martinson’s forthcoming novel, Her New Eyes, an experimental eye transplant with unexpected side effects upends the life of a sixty-eight-year-old florist living in modern-day Indiana. Soon after the procedure, the protagonist, Susan, begins receiving sporadic visions…

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Image is the book cover for I'LL GIVE YOU A REASON by Annell López; title card for the new interview with Marguerite Sheffer.

Interview: Annell López

May 2, 2025

  I had the pleasure of chatting with Annell López, author of the award-winning debut short story collection I’ll Give You a Reason over coffee after work in New Orleans, where we both live and write. I’ll Give You a…

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Image is the book cover for WHISKEY TENDER by Deborah Jackson Taffa; title card for the new interview with Gabriel Mosely.

Hybrid Interview: Deborah Jackson Taffa

March 28, 2025

  Essay by Gabriel Moseley • I had the great pleasure of meeting Deborah Jackson Taffa at the Vermont Studio Center in October 2023, where she was the Visiting Writer. It was stick season—the dismal threshold between the time of…

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Image is a photograph of an old computer; title card for the new craft essay, "Show Don't Tell: What AI Can't Do," by Laura Hartenberger.

Show, Don’t Tell: What AI Can’t Do

March 26, 2025

  By Laura Hartenberger • Teaching writing at university sometimes makes me feel like an academic imposter. Compared to my students’ other college courses, with their weighty textbooks, weekly quizzes, and the expectation of all-nighters, my writing classes, I fear,…

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Image is the the book cover for GOOD WOMEN by Halle Hill; title card for the new interview with Courtney Harler.

Interview: Halle Hill

March 20, 2025

  We are thrilled to announce Halle Hill, author of the award-winning debut short story collection, Good Women, as the guest judge for the CRAFT 2025 Short Fiction Prize. In celebration of the contest’s launch, Halle Hill generously granted Editor…

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Image is the book cover for THE BRAILLE ENCYCLOPEDIA by Naomi Cohn; title card for the new interview with Jacqueline Doyle.

Interview: Naomi Cohn

March 7, 2025

  Naomi Cohn was sighted until the age of thirty, when her vision began to decline. Now in her sixties, her pathological myopia has progressed to the point that she is legally blind. One of the ten percent of blind…

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Image is the book covers for HOUSE GONE QUIET by Kesley Norris and CAN'T SHAKE THE DUST by C. H. Hooks; title card for the new conversation between the authors.

Conversations Between Friends: C. H. Hooks and Kelsey Norris

March 5, 2025

  Kelsey Norris and I spoke in December. She was in Washington, DC and I was in St. Augustine, Florida, two arguably very different spaces to prepare for the holidays. We were also preparing for her to join me at…

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Image is the book cover for MY MOTHER IN HAVANA: A MEMOIR OF MAGIC & MIRACLE by Rebe Huntman; title card for the new hybrid interview with Shara Kronmal.

Hybrid Interview: Rebe Huntman

February 28, 2025

  Essay by Shara Kronmal • My Mother in Havana by Rebe Huntman is a memoir about journeys and the lessons learned along the way. In the memoir, the journeys are threefold in nature: physical, a literal journey from Ohio…

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Image is a color photo of street art of a robot with a heart; title card for the new craft essay, “Stepping Out of My Storytelling Box,” by Tim Bascom.

Stepping Out of My Storytelling Box

February 26, 2025

  By Tim Bascom • When I was twelve, I wrote my first short story, which was about a boy who, while hiking alone, falls off a mountain cliff and lands on a narrow outcrop, unable to get down or…

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Image is the book cover for WE ARE DREAMS IN THE ETERNAL MACHINE by Deni Ellis Béchard; title card for the new interview with Shehrazade Zafar-Arif.

Interview: Deni Ellis Béchard

February 7, 2025

  Deni Ellis Béchard’s speculative novel, We Are Dreams in the Eternal Machine, is set in a future dystopian United States divided by a civil war. The machine, a powerful AI which was designed with the goal to protect humans…

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