From the Book - First edition.
Introduction / Jericho Brown
Rhythm in writing / Daniel Omotosho Black
Asking questions and excavating memory : creating complex fictional characters / Crystal Wilkinson
When a character returns / Rion Amilcar Scott
What do you want from me / Jacqueline Woodson
The "natives of my person" or blood is not enough : a meditation on literary kinships / Curdella Forbes
Sweet, bittersweet, and joyful memories / Jewell Parker Rhodes
How to write a memoir or take me to the river / Marita Golden
Looking for a place called home / W. Ralph Eubanks
On abiding metaphors and finding a calling / Natash D. Tretheway
imaginary Tulsa : empathy and writing historical fiction /
This Louisiana thing that drives me : an interview with Ernest J. Gainese / Charles H. Rowell with Ernest J. Gaines
Seven brides for seven mothers / Rita Dove
Once more with feeling / Camille T. Dungy
Craft capsules : An American Marriage / Tayari Jones
Craft and the art of pulling Lincoln from a hat / E. Ethelbert Miller
Ready for the world : on classroom, craft, and commanding Black space / Tony Medina
Wrangling the line, meditations on the bop / Afaa Michael Weaver
Fiction forms : how to make fun and profundity possible in fiction / Tiphanie Yanique
Jericho Brown in conversation with Michael Dumanis / Jericho Brown with Michael Dumanis
Those words that echo...echo...echo through life / Jamaica Kincaid
Write what you know or nah? / Tricia Elam Walker
Nations through their mouths : silence, inner voices, and dialogue / Ravi Howard
Writing through loss and sorrow : poetry as a practice of healing / Frank X Walker
An interview with Barry Jenkins and Morgan Jerkins / Barry Jenkins with Morgan Jerkins
Nothing new : Black poetic experiment / Evie Shockley
Yearning, despair, and outrage : writing loss in fiction / Angela Flournoy
Muscularity and eros : on syntax / Carl Phillips
Plotting the plot / Elizabeth Nunez
Re-vision / Mitchell S. Jackson
The art of revision : most of what you write should be cut / Charles Johnson
Afterword / Darlene R. Taylor and Dana A. Williams.
