personal essays

Brief Essays on Altered Sight: On Braille, Loss, and Blindness’ Many Forms

Three Meditations on Vision From Naomi Cohn

 
By Naomi Cohn  October 23, 2024
Crime

The Third Person: Writing in the Aftermath of a Home Robbery

By Kate Sidley  February 19, 2024
Essays

It’s Not Personal: Sarah Viren on Essayistic Visions of the Self

By Sarah Viren  June 13, 2023
Abortion

How to Tell a True Abortion Story

By Nicole Walker  November 2, 2022
Power

Best American Male: An Essay About Masculinity. An Essay About Power.

By Rebecca Hazelton  March 10, 2022
Interview

Elissa Washuta on the Desire to Write a “Big Book”

By Eliza Smith  April 27, 2021
The Maris Review

Jo Ann Beard: What We’re Writing When We Write Personal Essays

By The Maris Review  April 1, 2021
Spiritualists

The Art of Belief: On Talking to the Dead in Lily Dale

By Laura Maylene Walter  March 23, 2021
Libraries

How a Year Without My Library Has Changed Me

By Lauren Du Graf  March 8, 2021
Otherppl

How Tori Amos Helped Laura Bogart Channel Vulnerability on the Page

By Otherppl with Brad Listi  October 15, 2020
On Craft

This is How You Write a Collaborative Essay

By Patrick Madden  April 1, 2020
Memoir

What Can an Essayist Do in the Face of Massive Tragedy?

By Sonya Bilocerkowycz  January 9, 2020
Essays

Leslie Jamison: On Weddings

By Leslie Jamison  September 27, 2019
Childhood

Brandon Taylor: Fear is a Prolonged Argument with the World

By Brandon Taylor  September 13, 2019
Faith

On the Pitfalls and Power of
the Religious Essay

By Sonja Livingston  August 5, 2019
Notes on Twitter

What Happens When You Pose as Susan Sontag on Twitter?

By Rebecca Brill  May 23, 2019
Essay

On Suicidal Sharks and Self-Harm

By Nicole Im  October 1, 2018
Essay

The Mindfuck: Returning to My Mennonite Homeland

By Rachel Yoder  August 6, 2018
Essay

I Worked in Biology for 17 Years… Then I Became a Writer

By Grace Dane Mazur  July 6, 2018
Essay

How Time in the Woods Helped Me Reset My Life

By Elle Nash  June 28, 2018
Conversations

Sloane Crosley on Comedy, Twitter, and the Rise of the Personal Essay

By Megan Amram  April 4, 2018
Essay

Is Any Story Too Private to Use In One’s Art?

By Rachel Lyon  February 28, 2018
Essay

First-Person Stories of the Body Are Much More Than Clickbait

By M. Sophia Newman  October 26, 2017
Personal Essay

The Last Personal Essay About Race I Will Ever Write

By Musa Okwonga  October 6, 2017
Op-Ed

Virginia Woolf: There Are Way Too Many Personal Essays Out There

By Lorraine Berry  May 24, 2017
Personal Essay

Helping My First Generation Students Take Pride in their Personal Essays

By Sonia Taitz  April 13, 2017
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