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Rx for writers (under construction)
 

When you need to know how others wrote it:

Book:

"A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Readering, and Life," George Saunders

 

Online:

Paris Review interviews with authors

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When you need funding:

Online:

City of Chicago Dept. of Cultural Affairs and Special Events

Illinois Arts Council
National Endowment for the Arts writing fellowships; translation fellowships; list of state & regional arts councils

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When you're looking for an agent:

Roseanne Kenny

Online:

Agent Query

Jane Friedman: publishing & marketing advice & links
Manuscript Wish List (what agents and editors want) 

 

And, if you want to contact a small publisher directly:

Community of Literary Magazines and Presses directory

 

Six steps to get your query letter to an agent out of of the slush pile 

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Memoirs and essay collections written in fragments and small stories (list that accompanied my Jan. 26, 2022 class via Park Ridge Public Library)

 

Shifting the Silence, Etel Adnan

Of Colour, Katherine Agyman Agard

Companion to an Untold Story, Marcia Aldrich

Two or Three Things I Know for Sure, Dorothy Allison

Berlin Childhood around 1900, Walter Benjamin

Notes from No-Man's Land; Having and Being Had, Eula Biss

The Book of Imaginary Beings, Jorge Luis Borges

I Remember, Joe Brainard

Decreation (multi genre), Anne Carson

No Relation, Paula Carter

The Crying Book, Heather Christle

On the Home Front, Mary Jo Clark as told to Jack Clark

Paris Vagabond, Jean-Paul Clebert

The Devil Never Sleeps, Andrei Codrescu

This Story Will Change, Elizabeth Crane

The Memory of Fire Trilogy: Genesis, Faces and Masks, and Century of the Wind; Eduardo Galeano

Heating and Cooling, Beth Ann Fennelly

Presentimiento: A Life in Dreams, Harrison Candelaria Fletcher

Little Labors, Rivka Ricki Galchen

Colored People: A Memoir, Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Woman and Nature, Susan Griffin

Still Life With a Bridle, Zbigniew Herbert

I Remember King Kong (The Boxer), Denis Hirson

A Bestiary, Lily Hoang

The Book of Resemblances; The Book of Margins; Edmond Jabes

Trespasses, Lacy Johnson

The Folded Clock: A Diary, Heidi Julavits

Wife/Daughter/Self: A Memoir in Essays, Beth Kephart

The Periodic Table, Primo Levi

Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life, Yiyun Li

Later: My Life at the Edge of the World, Paul Lisicky

Selected Cronicas, Clarice Lispector

Sidewalks, Valeria Luiselli

Socialist Realism, Trisha Low

300 Arguments, Sarah Manguso

How to Stop Time, Ann Marlowe

A Leak in the Heart, Faye Moskowitz

Bluets; Argonauts; Maggie Nelson

Still No Word from You: Notes in the Margin, Peter Orner (10/22)

I Remember, Georges Perec

Citizen: An American Lyric, Claudia Rankine

Intimate: An American Photo Album, Paisley Rekdal

Late Migrations, Margaret Renkl

Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life, Amy Krouse Rosenthal

100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write, Sarah Ruhl

Sex Talks to Girls, Maureen Seaton

Unbearable Splendor, Sun Yung Shin

A Postcard Memoir, Lawrence Sutin

A Three Dog Life; Safekeeping: Some True Stories from a Life, Abigail Thomas

FIve Plots, Erica Trabold

My Life as a Foreign Country, Brian Turner

Micrograms, Nicole Walker
The Suicide Index: Putting My Father's Death in Order, Joan Wickersham

 

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