by Charity Singleton Craig | Mar 17, 2016 | Blog, Writing
Last fall, I was teaching a workshop on how to write essays, and one question came up again and again: what is an essay. A simple question from the outside, but a harder one to answer from the inside, because so much of what is called an essay these days feels like a lot of other things.
by Charity Singleton Craig | Mar 3, 2016 | Blog, Writing
For a new book manuscript I’m working on, I’m trying to capture the world I grew up in, the world where my parents worked with their hands to pay the mortgage, we grew and hunted food because we had to, and dinner out usually meant a potluck meal at a relative’s …
by Charity Singleton Craig | Oct 7, 2015 | Blog, Read and Respond
The title first drew me to Rebecca Solnit’s The Faraway Nearby. I was working on an essay about Georgia O’Keefe, and though mention of her painting “The Faraway Nearby” didn’t even make it into my finished piece, I found Solnit’s book and knew I had to have it. I...