Artifacts & illuminations : critical essays on Loren Eiseley / edited and with an introduction by Tom Lynch and Susan N. Maher.

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Below freezing : elegy for the melting planet / Donald Anderson ; foreword by Aritha van Herk. by Anderson, Donald, 1946 July 9-

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What are we becoming? : developments in undergraduate writing majors / edited by Greg A. Giberson, Thomas A. Moriarty.

Table of Contents: “…Moriarty and Greg Giberson -- Composing multiliteracies and image: multimodal writing majors for a creative economy / Joddy Murray -- Not just another pretty classroom genre: the uses of creative nonfiction in the writing major / Celest Martin -- The writing arts major: a work in process / Jennifer Courtney, Deb Martin, and Diane Penrod -- What exactly is this major? …”

The writing life / Ellen Gilchrist. by Gilchrist, Ellen, 1935-

Table of Contents: “…-- Sunday Morning -- Eudora Welty -- Another Hard Thing for a Writer to Learn to Handle -- How I Invented Traceleen -- How to Move Characters from One Place to Another -- How to Become Inspired -- Decons -- Learning to Teach -- The War with the Squirrels -- What They Write About -- Teaching: -- Teaching, A Journal -- Teaching, A Journal (Continued) -- My Third Year -- Worrying -- Students -- The Ice Storm -- Creative Nonfiction (as Fiction) -- The Semester from Hell -- Drunks, Dope Addicts, and Losers, Characters My Students Give Me -- How Can I Help These Students Learn to Write? …”
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What we are becoming : developments in undergraduate writing majors / edited by Greg A. Giberson, Thomas A. Moriarty.

Table of Contents: “…Moriarty and Greg Giberson -- Composing multiliteracies and image: multimodal writing majors for a creative economy / Joddy Murray -- Not just another pretty classroom genre: the uses of creative nonfiction in the writing major / Celest Martin -- The writing arts major: a work in process / Jennifer Courtney, Deb Martin, and Diane Penrod -- "What exactly is this major?"…”
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Dough : a memoir / Mort Zachter. by Zachter, Mort, 1958-

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Beautiful flesh : a body of essays / edited by Stephanie G'Schwind.

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The dream of a broken field / Diane Glancy. by Glancy, Diane

Table of Contents: “…A House, a Cabin, and a Summer Trip -- On the Academic Front -- I Am Wearing the Dialogue of Another -- Costume -- A Dress of Rain -- A House -- A Room -- A Cabin -- Intaglio -- Rocks -- I Pick Them Up in Travel -- Engraved on a Rock -- A Dock -- The Dream of a Broken Field -- Ascension Convention -- Book Four Geographies of Language The Act and Question of Creative Nonfiction -- A Rocky Shelf -- Geographies of Language -- Buffalo Nickel -- Sonata -- Is not telling the truth the same as lying? …”

Chiva : a village takes on the global heroin trade / Chellis Glendinning. by Glendinning, Chellis

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Campus sexpot : a memoir / by David Carkeet. by Carkeet, David

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Words overflown by stars : creative writing instruction and insight from the Vermont College of Fine Arts M.F.A. program / edited by David Jauss.

Table of Contents: “…Before we get started / Bret Lott -- The girl I was, the woman I have become: fiction's reminiscent narrators / Ellen Lesser -- From long shots to x-rays: distance and point of view in fiction / David Jauss -- Breaking the "rules" of story structure / Diane Lefer -- Notes of novel structure / Douglas Glover -- Wake up and go to sleep: dreams and writing fiction / Philip Graham -- Keeping open the wounds of possibility: the marvelous, the uncanny, and the fantastic in fiction / Christopher Noël -- How do we mean what we do not say: the uses of omission in fiction / Victoria Redel -- Multi-culti literati: or, ways of writing fiction beyond "PC" / Xu Xi -- The textures of fiction: an inquiry / François Camoin -- Showing and telling / Laurie Alberts -- Painful howls from places that undoubtedly exist: a primer of deceit / Robin Hemley -- The fictional "I" in nonfiction / Phyllis Barber -- The meandering river: an overview of the subgenres of creative nonfiction / Sue William Silverman -- "I recognize thy glory": on the American nature essay and lyric poetry / Sydney Lea -- Poetic technique in nonfiction writing / Cynthia Huntington -- Collaborating with chaos: not knowing and the creative process / Jack Myers -- Staking the claim to the title / Nance Van Winckel -- On beginnings / Mary Ruefle -- Souls on ice / Mark Doty -- Roots in our throats: a case for using etymology / Natasha Sajé -- Mind the gap / Betsy Sholl -- Towards a poetics of pull-and-release: some thoughts on silence in poems / Leslie Ullman -- The word overflown by stars: saying the unsayable / Richard Jackson -- The poem, as and of address / Ralph Angel -- The changing other / William Olsen -- Incidental music: the grotesque, the romantic, and the retrenched / Roger Weingarten -- Striking the wrong hours: poetry and time / Nancy Eimers -- Notes on notes,/: punctuation and poetry / Robin Behn -- On voice and revision / Mark Cox -- The writer as revisionary / Clare Rossini -- "If you have to be sure don't write": poetry and self-doubt / David Wojahn.…”

I'll be your mirror : essays and aphorisms / David Lazar. by Lazar, David, 1957-

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Find your story, write your memoir / Lynn C. Miller and Lisa Lenard-Cook. by Miller, Lynn, 1951-

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Lovely asunder : poems / by Danielle Cadena Deulen. by Deulen, Danielle Cadena, 1979-

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Choctalking on other realities / by LeAnne Howe ; foreword by Dean Rader. by Howe, LeAnne

Away happens / Phil Crossman. by Crossman, Phil

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The anti-racist writing workshop : how to decolonize the creative classroom / Felicia Rose Chavez. by Chavez, Felicia Rose

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Big house on the prairie : 75 years of the University of Nebraska Press / Staff of the University of Nebraska Press.

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Anglo-Saxon(ist) pasts, postSaxon futures / Donna Beth Ellard. by Ellard, Donna Beth

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How to make digital stories / Video Education Australasia.

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