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April 8, 2026 at 3:48 PM
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Our syllabi bank? Resources for days. Check out our tools for workshops, pedagogy, and more at assayjournal.com #SyllabiSunday #AssayJournal #CNF #Nonfiction #WritingCommunity
November 24, 2024 at 2:20 PM
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November 25, 2024 at 2:20 PM
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Our community resources will give your class so much life. Check out our tools for workshops, pedagogy, and more at assayjournal.com

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November 17, 2024 at 4:18 PM
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Think poems and nonfiction don’t have much overlap? Think again.
Read Jehanne Dubrow’s thoughts on the overlap between voltas and hermit crab essays, poetry and essays, in Assay issue 11.1.
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November 19, 2024 at 10:47 PM
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April 24, 2026 at 3:41 PM
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Madhushree Ghosh's memoir "Khabaar" is a beautiful book that blends and braids the global journeys of South Asian food through immigration, migration, and indenture. 🍽️

Read her 2023 Interview Project chat here: buff.ly/KdN1jTe

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March 17, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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This Syllabus Sunday we are highlighting a Form & Theory course from the Assay syllabi bank. Advanced Creative Nonfiction Prose: On Structure by Professor Julia Šukys.

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September 21, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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This Pedagogy Monday, we’re revisiting Assay issue 2.1 with Crystal N. Fodrey’s essay “Teaching CNF Writing to College Students: A Snapshot of CNF Pedagogical Scholarship.”

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August 18, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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In honor of #ThrowbackThursday, we highlight Miles Harvey’s work, “The Two Inmates,” which explores 'outer feeling'—situating yourself within historical context to view personal narratives as part of a larger story.

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November 28, 2024 at 2:20 PM
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We're focusing on flash interviews today! Take a glance at these wonderful tidbits from @amymonticello in this 2021 To Wit interview.

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May 13, 2026 at 9:00 PM
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How does Gen AI make meaning for CNF students? Myers and Ballenger make the case for moderated AI in the classroom in Assay 11.2

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March 23, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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May 1, 2026 at 4:28 PM
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April 16, 2026 at 2:35 PM
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The conversations of Assay Issue 12.1!

🗣️Desirae Matherly
✏️In Defense of Navel Gazing

🗣️Kathryn Nuernberger
✏️Research as Ritual

🗣️Molly Tompkins
✏️Interview with Margaret Juhae Lee

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October 1, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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This Syllabus Sunday we are highlighting a Literary Publishing course from the Assay syllabi bank. The Art & Craft of Editing by Dr. Jenny Spinner.

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June 15, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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NonfictioNOW starts today! We have a lot of Assay representation at the conference this year. Swipe to see where you can find our team this week!

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June 11, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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April 7, 2026 at 1:20 PM
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May 18, 2026 at 8:04 PM
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How do images change the way we read? In this Assay #throwback, Elizabeth Paul dives into Eduardo Galeano’s "The Book of Embraces."

Check out Paul's "Seeing in Embraces" here: buff.ly/NAAwKjG .
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April 9, 2026 at 6:00 PM
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For today's Throwback we're taking lessons from Brian Doyle's uncertainty and Ana Maria Spagna's astute observations in "On 'How We Wrestle is Who We Are' from Assay 4.1. 🫀

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February 5, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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Friendly reminder that we are moving our In the Classroom blog to Substack! Follow assayjournal.substack.com for #pedagogy and craft talk, as well as #publication opportunities for grads! #nonfiction #AssayJournal
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The purpose of Assay is to publish the best critical scholarship of nonfiction texts, to facilitate all facets of nonfiction conversations in a variety of disciplines, and to be a resource for writers, scholars, readers, and teachers of nonfiction. Click to read Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies, a Substack publication.
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April 9, 2026 at 6:02 PM
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Today's Spotlight is Floreani's wonderful "Sewing and Telling" from Assay 6.1. Floreani "articulates the potential subversions of our cultural assumptions about what we make—or don’t." 🪡

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March 4, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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What is a "rightly shaped" vehicle for personal truth? Natalie Villacorta explores the rise of #autofiction as the ultimate tool for women writers in Assay 6.2, pointing to Virginia Woolfe, Sheila Heti, and others as example. 📖

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March 18, 2026 at 2:25 PM
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Day 3 of NonfictioNOW and the last day of the conference! Before you head home consider attending the “Craft Conversations: Collaboration, Craft, and Creative Work” panel featuring our very own Karen Babine and Heidi Czerwiec.

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June 13, 2025 at 12:01 PM