Work in Progress
Lizzie LawsonReflections on writing, career-building, and life after leaving the Catholic Church.
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Behind the Scenes: Essay in Slate
I’m excited to offer a 4-week class, Writing about Relationships in Personal Essays and Memoir, starting August 3rd! This class is great for anyone writing stories that involve parents, friends, romantic partners, siblings, archenemies, a...
What You Can Learn From Writing Multiple Genres
I’ve heard the distinction between genres described this way: fiction is action, nonfiction is analysis, and poetry is song. In other words, you write fiction to make something happen, nonfiction to figure something out, and poetry to expre...
I Told My Mom What My Book is About
When my mom invited me to lunch in downtown Minneapolis, just the two of us, I wondered if this was the moment I should tell her I’m not Catholic anymore.
I hadn’t practiced the Catholic faith for four years at that point. I thought of my...
Memoir Writing Lessons From Famesick
Lena Dunham has always fascinated me. I discovered Girls right after the last season came out, when I was in my early twenties and had a vastly different life from the girls on the show. A devout Catholic at the time, I had gotten married a...
Writing as Endurance Sport
Recently, I was complaining to some friends about having to write a book proposal—a 50+ page document that has become mandatory for nonfiction writers even if the full manuscript is completed. This led to us talking about the amount of non-...
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Writer and teaching artist with publications in Electric Literature, The Florida Review, The Sun, and more. ✨ Sharing reflections on writing and publishing as I finish my first book.
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