Something to consider

CREATIVITY

IS

NOT

FRAGILE

JOIN Writer's League of Texas

http://www.writersleague.org/38/Conference

Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference

Personal Essayist? Creative Nonfiction? Literary Nonfiction?

 http://www.themayborn.com/conference-and-competitions

Michael Moore's Search Party (Here Comes Trouble)

http://books.google.com/books?id=mJNqEXEf40MC&pg=PT43&lpg=PT43&dq=search+party+by+michael+moore+here+comes+trouble&source=bl&ots=Ws39OZwFfO&sig=NsGIKZ7c4D2Blp2jyQTf-anYvsk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=cvq9U9GjGdCKyASX5ID4DQ&ved=0CEkQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=search%20party%20by%20michael%20moore%20here%20comes%20trouble&f=false

This link is only a portion of this essay. However, email me at nicolezaza@gmail.com if you would like to read the full version of this essay.

Sloane Crossley's The Pony Problem

http://teachers.sduhsd.net/tkortman/documents/The%20Pony%20Problem.pdfhttp://teachers.sduhsd.net/tkortman/documents/The%20Pony%20Problem.pdf

Monica Wood's What Betty Knows

www.oprah.com/relationships/What-My-Sister-Taught-Me-Monica-Woodwww.oprah.com/relationships/What-My-Sister-Taught-Me-Monica-Wood

Jane Bremer's Spice of Life

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/13/magazine/spice-of-life.html?_r=0

Joan Didion's Goodbye to All That

http://essaysspring13.qwriting.qc.cuny.edu/files/2013/04/Joan-Didion-Goodbye-to-All-That.pdf
http://essaysspring13.qwriting.qc.cuny.edu/files/2013/04/Joan-Didion-Goodbye-to-All-That.pdf

Virginia Woolfe's Death of the Moth

Here is a link to the essay we began in class. 

http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/everythingsanargument4e/content/cat_020/Woolf_DeathoftheMoth.pdf

Welcome Tryers.

This blog is an exploration into the boundaries of PERSONAL ESSAY.

Essay is derived from the French word essaier, which means to try.

The blog will be first devoted to posting reading material for those who wish to learn more about the nature of the personal essay. Please feel free to submit suggestions for our library.

We hope that we can evolve into publishing work of essayists.