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Article	Date	Author Name
A Conversation on Craft with Ursula K. Le Guin	March/April 2017	David Naimon
Middle Passage at 25: Charles Johnson Reflects on His National Book Award–Winning Novel and More	February 2017	Robin Lindley
Towards a New Creative Writing Pedagogy	October/November 2016	Fred D'Aguiar
Ferguson, Whiteness as Default, & the Teaching of Creative Writing	October/November 2016	David Mura
In Our Way: Racism in Creative Writing	October/November 2016	Claudia Rankine
An Interview with William Least Heat-Moon	December 2015	William Naparsteck
The Quarrel with Ourselves: Robert Penn Warren’s “World of Action and Liability”	March/April 2015	Natasha Trethewey
The Master Craftsman: Function Follows Form in Henry James’s The Portrait of a Lady	March/April 2015	Douglas Bauer
Ars Poetica and the Talking Cure: Poetry, Therapy, & the Quest to Create	October/November 2014	Lisa C. Krueger
Endlessly Branching: An Interview with Arthur Sze	September 2013	Andy Fogle
Shine in that Vivid Isolation: A Case Study of the Ghazal in the Contemporary American Lyric	May/Summer 2013	Tyler Mills
Balancing Craft & Commitment: Writing Political Fiction	March/April 2013	Rosellen Brown, Tracy Daugherty, & Ellen Meeropol
The Postmodern Memoir	March/April 2012	Hugh Ryan
The Absence of Their Presence: Mythic Character in Fiction	December 2011	Steven Schwartz
The Ethics of Cultural Appropriation of Identity in Fiction: A Writer's Choices in Cross-Cultural Writing	March/April 2011	Stephen J. Quigley
A Conversation with Nikki Giovanni	March/April 2011	Chapman Hood Frazier
Novel Anxiety: Notes from the Genre War Trenches	March/April 2011	Martha Cooley
Between Starshine & Clay:An Interview with Lucille Clifton	February 2011	Remica L. Bingham
Turning the Screws of Story Construction with Henry James	May/Summer 2010	Aimee Liu
Odds on Ends	February 2010	Molly Giles
Poetry & Ethics: Writing About Others	December 2009	Natasha Sajé
An Interview with Sheryl St. Germain	October/November 2009	Allison Schuette
How We Are Changed by the Rhythms of Poetry	September 2009	Karin de Weille
Sin's Entertainment: On Dante's Inferno	March/April 2009	Martha Cooley
Silence & Storytelling	February 2009	Alice Mattison
Elegy for Desire: Luis Omar Salinas 1937-2008	October/November 2008	Christopher Buckley
Machines Made Out of Words: Translating Function & the Translator's Function	October/November 2008	Tony Barnstone
The Interval in Writing: What Happens Between Pussycats & Thugs Does Not Stay Between Pussycats & Thugs	September 2008	Brian Baldi
The Meandering River: An Overview of the Subgenres of Creative Nonfiction	September 2008	Sue William Silverman
On Difficulty in Poetry	May/Summer 2008	Reginald Shepherd
My Touchstones	March/April 2008	Alan Cheuse
Aural Invention as Floral Splendor: Louis Zukofsky's Vision of Natural Beauty in 80 Flowers	February 2008	Leon Lewis
Beautiful Clarity: Jane Kenyon, Anna Akhmatova, and the Luminous Particular	September 2007	David Harbilas
Ouija, Canoe, Haiku: A Collaborative Inquiry into Collaborative Poetry	December 2006	Isaac Cates & Chad Davidson
An Interview with Rita Dove	October/November 2005	Elizabeth Alexander
Return to Sender: Memory, Betrayal, and Memoir	October/November 2005	Mark Doty
An Interview with Chang-rae Lee	May/Summer 2005	Sarah Anne Johnson
An Interview with Edward P. Jones	December 2004	Sherry Ellis
Peering at Privacy in Creative Nonfiction	September 2004	Kaylene Johnson
An Interview with Nora Okja Keller	March/April 2004	Sarah Anne Johnson
"Imp of Verbal Darkness": Poetry Hoaxes & the Postmodern Politic	December 2003	Rebecca Warner
An Interview with Ai	December 2003	Tomas Q. Morin
Writing and Moaning	December 2003	Alan Cheuse
An Interview with Ursula K. Le Guin	October/November 2003	Ramola D
The Treasure Trove of Metaphor: More on Poetry Anthologies	October/November 2003	Rachel Hadas
An Interview with Nick Hornby	February 2003	Tom DeMarchi
A Conversation with Dorothy Allison	October/November 2002	Renée Olander
Remembering Eudora Welty	October/November 2002	Richard Bausch
Poetry and Survival	September 2002	Gregory Orr
An Interview with Jayne Anne Phillips	May/Summer 2002	Sarah Anne Johnson
An Interview with Li-Young Lee	May/Summer 2002	Marie Jordan
The Muse in the News	February 2002	Andrew Ciofalo
"Tis Backed Like a Weasel": The Slipperiness of Metaphor	March/April 2001	Tony Hoagland
Bend Sinister: A Handbook for Writers	October/November 2000	Alice McDermott
From Long Shots to X-Rays: Distance & Point of View in Fiction Writing	September 2000	David Jauss
The Self as a Literary Construct	December 1999	Jocelyn Bartkevicius
An Interview with Mark Doty	March/April 1998	Dale Boyer
Rules & Reality in Fiction	May/Summer 1997	Ron Tanner
Reviewing Literary Citizenship	September 1995	Valerie Miner
On the Founding of WC&F: Community for Writers	May/Summer 1995	Kelleen Zubick
Hypertext: Of Mouse & Man	October/November 1994	Sven Birkerts
An Interview with Mary Oliver	September 1994	Renee Olander
An Interview with Rosellen Brown	February 1994	Alexander Neubauer
Emily Dickinson, Madonna, Boomers, Busters, the Old Criterion, & the Next Millennium—	September 1993	Martin Schecter
The Great Ventriloquist Act: Gender and Voice in the Fiction Workshop	September 1993	Julie Brown
Poetry as Democracy: A Letter to AWP	February 1990	Garrett Hongo
Boundaries & Frames: Non-Transference in Teaching	September 1989	Robert Langs, M.D.
Rocks in Our Beds: A Dark Valentine to New England	September/October 1987	John Clellon Holmes
The Writer as Midwife	May 1987	Daniel Halpern
Whole Sight: Notes on New Black Fiction	February 1985	Charles Johnson
Tendril: A Brief History	February 1984	Mari Lonano
Solitude or Community: Writing As It is Taught	September 1980	Donald Justice
What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Identity	Summer 2020	Eileen Cronin
Dreaming the Real: An Interview with Marianne Boruch	February 2020	Helena Feder
A Quantitative Approach to Crafting Tension	February 2020	Dustin M. Hoffman
An Interview with Matthew Lippman	February 2020	Tina Cane
Writing Pain with Metaphor	February 2020	Sonya Huber
A Suggested Teaching Guide for “Foundational Narrative Design” by Andy Graff	February 2020	Karen Salyer McElmurray
Give Up Your Ghosts: Character Obsessioins as Conduits to the Uncanny	February 2020	Theodora Ziolkowski
Hecht’s Vital Artifice in “The Book of Yolek”	February 2020	Alexander Long
Who’s Colluding? The Case For Collaborative Writing	February 2020	Sally Ashton
I Have Been on a Fried Chicken Journey: The 2019 AWP Annual Conference & Bookfair Keynote Address	November 2019	Colson Whitehead
Within Two Cultures, With Two Languages: An Interview with Margarita Engle	November 2019	Padma Venkatraman
Tell Don’t Show: On Pseudo-statement	November 2019	Christopher Kempf
Une Femme Du Monde and a Life in Letters: An Interview with Patricia Spears Jones	November 2019	Lauren K. Alleyne
Foundational Narrative Design	November 2019	Andy Graff
The Diagram Still Sketched on the Wind: Self-Portrait Poems and the Poem as Self-Portrait	November 2019	Dante Di Stefano
Against Exclusion	November 2019	Caleb Ajinomoh
Suggested Teaching Guide for “A Woman Alone in a Room Realizing Something” by Alice Mattison	November 2019	Jeannine Ouellette
Suggested Teaching Guide for “Has the Happy Ending Fallen Out of Style” by Lee Lee Goodson	September 2019	Kali White VanBaale
Drunk on Words: Matwaala Festival of South Asian Poets of the Diaspora, 2019	September 2019	Zilka Joseph
Graceful Exits: The Endings of Five Grief Memoirs	September 2019	Carrie Shipers
On the Tip of the Tongue: Cognitive Poetics & Expressive Sound Patterns	September 2019	E.P. Fisher
A Conversation with Sinéad Morrissey	September 2019	Chapman Hood Frazier
A Woman Alone in a Room Realizing Something	September 2019	Alice Mattison
Kwame Dawes & Chris Abani: A Conversation About Mentorship	September 2019	Heather Sappenfield
An Eye for the Long Run: A Tribute to Donald Hall 1928–2018	September 2019	Martin Lammon
An Interview with David Baker	May/Summer 2019	Jason Gray
“What Do We Mean When We Say a War is Over?”: An Interview with Paisley Rekdal	May/Summer 2019	David Winter
Meet Ryszard Krynicki	May/Summer 2019	Sara Backer