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Writing the Life: A Student’s Guide to Memoir

Memoir principles, ethics and privacy, scene and structure work, a revision ladder, guided exercises, and a 14-day practice plan.

Student Workbook for Literary Analysis

Guided close-reading exercises, thematic prompts, and model annotations built on public-domain passages from Chopin, Joyce, Mansfield, Wharton, and Hurston.

Contemporary Poetic Forms: A Companion Booklet

The sonnet, ghazal, golden shovel, erasure, duplex, Instagram poem, and more—how each form works, poets to study, and step-by-step writing processes.

Twenty-Six Blueprints

Twenty-six outlines for writing poems, short stories, novels, and short memoirs—classroom handouts you can adapt rather than follow.

Publishing Memoir & Personal Essay

How to prepare, place, and track memoir and personal essays, with cover-letter guidance and a curated list of welcoming journals, contests, and tools.

Submitting Short Stories

How to prepare, place, and track short stories and flash fiction, with cover-letter guidance and a curated list of welcoming journals, contests, and tools.

Memoir Types & Model Outlines

Ten memoir types, the techniques that define each, a published example to study for every type, and model outlines to adapt for your own manuscript.

The Poetry of James Mulhern: A Student Study Guide

Six poems with commentary, notes on style and technique, the question of school and tradition, and discussion questions.

The Shape of a Short Story

Eight structural templates, measured beat maps, and models from the masters—where the turn falls and why.

Writing the Short Story

Directions, ideas, and exercises from first spark to final draft.

The Short Story Today

Lengths, genres, and the word counts editors accept, checked against each publication’s own guidelines in October 2026.

Further Reading for Writers of Creative Nonfiction

A starter shelf and annotated reading list of craft guides, the writing process, and essay anthologies of every kind.

At the Bay: A Reader’s and Writer’s Companion

Katherine Mansfield’s story in full context—biography, critical reception, 1922 history, open discussion questions, craft activities, and a comparison with Chekhov’s “The Lady with the Dog.”

The Greatest Short Stories: A Discussion Companion

Close-reading questions, craft questions, and writing prompts for the twelve stories on the Greatest Short Stories reading list, plus comparison questions and essay prompts. The stories themselves are not reproduced.

The Silver Current Writing Workshop Handbook

A twelve-week curriculum for a workshop or a writer working alone—one craft principle a week, a public-domain reading, and exercises, with a classroom photocopy license.

A Companion to Literary Analysis: Six Moves for Reading with Attention

Six moves for reading closely, each demonstrated on public-domain fiction and poetry, with exercises for students and independent readers.

Short Story Toolkit

The Shape of a Short Story, Writing the Short Story, The Short Story Today, and Submitting Short Stories.

$25 if bought separately.

Memoir Writer’s Set

Writing the Life, Memoir Types & Model Outlines, and Publishing Memoir & Personal Essay.

$32 if bought separately.

Complete Writer’s Library

Thirteen core guides and workbooks in one purchase: every title from Writing the Life through At the Bay.

$110 if bought separately.

The Publishing Course: Student Workbook

A 15-session student workbook for writers learning the business: guided notes, activity sheets, and reflections on publishing paths, rights and permissions, agents and queries, editing, design, metadata, distribution, marketing, and money, plus a capstone portfolio plan and a course reference reading.

The Publishing Course: Handouts Packet

Twenty-five printable worksheets, checklists, and planners: an ecosystem map, predatory-offer red flags, a permissions decision tree, a query letter template, a metadata worksheet, a publishing budget, a royalties planner, and more.

The Publishing Course Set

The Student Workbook and the Handouts Packet together.

$22 if bought separately.

Where the Poem Has Been: Reprint Policies at Twenty Poetry Journals

Reprint and disclosure policies at twenty leading poetry journals, drawn from each journal’s own guidelines in May 2026, with a comparison table.

The Publisher’s Companion: A Practical Guide for Self-Publishing Authors

When to hire an editor, the editorial order of operations, choosing services, cover design, publication platforms, and life after publication.

A Glossary of Editorial and Publishing Terms

The vocabulary an author meets from first edit to distribution, defined plainly.

The Submitter’s Companion: A Field Guide for Writers Sending Work to Literary Journals

Preparing a submission, cover letters that work, simultaneous submissions, tracking, and reading rejections, with sample letters.

Poetry Submission Suggestions: A Practical Guide for Adult & Emerging Poets

How to prepare, format, place, and track poems, with a list of welcoming journals, contests, and tools as of July 2026.

Altogether Beautiful: The Religious Architecture of James Mulhern’s Work

A full concordance of religious and literary allusion across the collected fiction—the complete scholarly study, with “Altogether Beautiful” as its opening chapter.

All We Ever Needed: The Architecture of Mercy

Mercy across all eight stories—themes, motifs, character archetypes, allusion, and craft, with close reading and direct quotation throughout.

Essays, Criticism, Craft: Book Club Companion

Second edition: discussion questions and a critical essay on five readings about recurring images, religious interpretation, and working belief, with a reading map of the full essay archive—built for reading groups and classrooms.

Taking Notes in English Class: A Student Guide

Board notes, discussion notes, the Cornell method, and turning notes into an essay.