Craft Essays

Hawks and Walkaways: How Nature Can Aid Revision

Story Crafting Below the Surface

Tellers

Flash: The Literary Theory and Analysis Teacher’s Best Friend

Why a Small-Town Record Store in Rural Pennsylvania Was My First Library

Jolene McIlwain on Rural America, Songwriting, and Oral Storytelling

Bartleby and Workplace Lit: An Essay by Jolene McIlwain

"Secret Rewards” Craft Essay: Jolene McIlwain on Writing PTSD in Fiction

The Set List: How to Order Short Stories in a Collection

Jolene McIlwain at Writer's Digest