Posts by Sean Glatch
Memoir Vs Autobiography Vs Biography: The Craft of Nonfiction Books
What is the difference between a memoir vs autobiography vs biography? These three categories of nonfiction describe different approaches to telling your life’s story. But while these books all sit…
Read MoreWriting Therapy: How Language Helps Us Heal
How I came to writing therapy Throughout human history, stories have offered us a way to make meaning from complicated experiences. In the field of psychology, writing therapy is seen…
Read More40 of the Best Places to Submit Poetry Online
Where are the best poetry websites, journals, and magazines to submit poetry online? Every day, new literary journals are founded, but getting your work out into the world feels harder…
Read MoreHow to Write a Children’s Picture Book
Learning how to write a children’s picture book looks easy at first glance. The word count is short. The illustrations carry so much of the storytelling. The stories are simple…
Read MoreInterview: Barbara Henning on “Girlfriend” and the Craft of Poetic Memoir
[Photo: Barbara Henning (right) with poet Maureen Owen (left)] Our selves are collages of the people that impact us; we are products of every person we have met. To put…
Read MoreWhat is an Elegy Poem?
Poetry has a large capacity for human emotion, unpacking (or sometimes complicating) the complexities of our feelings and experiences. When a work in verse dwells on a significant moment of…
Read MorePoetry Inspiration: How to Find Inspiration for Poetry
Poetry inspiration is everywhere. This is evident in the fact that poems have been written on literally every topic: Grecian urns and daffodils; bodily organs and ostracized planets; the mighty…
Read MoreHow to Write an Ekphrastic Poem
Ekphrasis is a literary device in which a work of art, usually visual, inspires a piece of poetry or prose. Ekphrastic poetry, then, describes a poem that finds inspiration in…
Read MoreHow to Write a Sonnet Poem
The sonnet is a poetry form that poets have wielded for centuries—from Petrarch and Shakespeare to Marilyn Nelson and Terrance Hayes. These 14-line poems use restrictions of length and rhythm…
Read MoreHow to Become a Writer
Becoming a writer is actually quite easy. Contrary to the stereotype that writers are divinely-gifted recluses or quirky Beatniks, the truth is, anyone who writes is a writer. Yes, including…
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