Archive for category: Reports from the Field

Report from the Field: Seeing Is Changing
[This Report from the Field is a post by KC Trommer, regarding the controversy surrounding a member of the publishing world and a UK-based for-profit press.]...

Report from the Field: On Literary Sexual Abuse, Sock Puppets, and White Sage—A Story in Blog Posts
This Report from the Field is authored by Annie Finch, and originally appeared on her personal blog, AnnieFinch.com, in three installations, Part 1, Part 2,...

Report from the Field: Quadrants
Late Summer, 2016 It’s been a long, cool Portland summer and goose bumps are, at this point, a familiar friend to my southern-born body....

Report from the Field: The Permission to Reveal
This July 11 Report from the Field is a post by a Addie Tsai regarding their personal experiences concerning a noted literary figure. Confession 1:...

Report from the Field: Zero Tolerance, An Open Letter from Jewish Writers about U.S. Immigration Policy
This Report from the Field has been authored by Richard Zimler and signed by members of the Jewish writing community, in response to US Supreme...

Report from the Field: Of Myopia, White Supremacy and the Personal Essay
In 2017, I took my first creative nonfiction workshop with a reputed author, editor, and teacher of creative writing in the heart of Los Angeles,...

Report from the Field: The Fearful I: Confessional Modes of Address and Speaking the Self
When I crested 12 and took the first tentative steps down authorship’s overgrown path, the trees and buzzing insects spoke with the voices of Sylvia...

Report from the Field: Justice
This Report from the Field is a post authored by Jody Hobbs Hesler regarding her account of her personal experiences with the Title IX process...

Report from the Field: Money, Writing, & Opportunity: A Manifesto
In creative fields where labor is undervalued, writers and artists are asked to work for “exposure” in lieu of compensation that would address our most...