Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies

Happy Fall! The shiny 10th anniversary issue of Assay is hot off the presses and smelling of apple cider and maple leaves! Grab some hot chocolate and a cozy blanket, and check out the delightful new nonfiction scholarship and pedagogy we have for you! assayjournal.com/

Brand new today on the Assay Interview Project, Molly Tompkins' wonderful interview with Wei Tchou about her new book, Little Seed. Don't miss it! assayjournal.com/wei-tchou.h…

It's Submission Saturday! Send us your nonfiction scholarship, your informal craft papers, your pedagogical brilliances--we want to see them! assayjournal.com/submit.html

Brand new on the Assay Interview Project: Julija Sukys interviews Sarah Viren about her new book, TO NAME THE BIGGER LIE! assayjournal.com/sarah-viren…

The final piece in our fall issue is the last installment in our six-word memoir spotlight, this one from Katherine Fredlund: "Six Words Toward Knowing and Feeling." assayjournal.com/katherine-f…

Today, we're celebrating Gwen Niekamp's "The Case for Situating Olaudah Equiano’s Interesting Narrative in the CNF Classroom and Canon" from our new fall issue! assayjournal.com/gwen-niekam…

The next installment in our Six Word Memoir spotlight in this issue is Jennifer Stewart's "Six-Word Memoirs as Programmatic and Pedagogical Reflection"--don't miss it! assayjournal.com/jennifer-st…

Today, we're celebrating Peter Wayne Moe's "Grocery Shopping with Leonardo DiCaprio:v On Time, Routines, & Writing"--what kind of writerly rituals have you developed? assayjournal.com/peter-wayne…

Start your week off right with the second installment from our spotlight on six word memoirs, with Elizabeth Leahy's terrific "Creating Space for Writing Tutor Vulnerability: Six-Word Memoirs in the Writing Center"--don't miss it! assayjournal.com/elizabeth-l…

Start your day with James Allen Hall's wonderful "Wholly Fragmented" from our new fall issue! assayjournal.com/james-allen…

Today, we're celebrating Rachel N. Spear's "Saving Self and Others in Telling: Rhetoric, Stories, and Transformation"--don't miss it! assayjournal.com/rachel-n-sp…

We have a marvelous Spotlight feature for you in this issue--four discussions of the six-word memoir as a tool for assessment. First up is Kim Hensley Owens & Yongzhi Miao, with "Six (Words) is Enough: Memoirs for Assessment"--don't miss it! assayjournal.com/kim-hensley…

It's Submission Saturday! We might have just sent our fall issue out into the world this week, but we're reading for the spring issue and beyond! assayjournal.com/submit.html

Happy Friday, everyone! To send you off into a delightful weekend, why don't you start with Abby Manzella's "In Search of Delight (à la Ross Gay) at the Art Museum: A Writing Exercise with Pen in Hand"? assayjournal.com/abby-manzel…

Start your day off right with Jehanne Dubrow's marvelous piece, "The Essay's Volta," from our new fall issue! assayjournal.com/jehanne-dub…

Join us as we celebrate our brand new Fall 2024 issue! Up first, you'll want to see @anannadroid's "A Question on Genre: The Binary of the Creative/Theoretical Text in Elif Batuman’s The Possessed"--don't miss it! assayjournal.com/anna-nguyen…

Don't miss these amazing pedagogy pieces!

So thrilled to have this amazing spotlight on six-word memoirs!

Check out these fantastic pieces from our Conversations section! assayjournal.com/

We're so pleased to have it--thank you!

Happy October! The shiny new Fall 2024 issue of Assay (11.1) is hot off the presses and smelling of apple cider and maple leaves! Grab some hot chocolate and a cozy blanket, and check out the new nonfiction scholarship and pedagogy we have for you! assayjournal.com/