Craft Favorites

How to Bring Your Voice to Life in Personal Essays (Dinty W. Moore, Writer’s Digest)

Innocence & Experience: Voice in Creative Nonfiction (Sue William Silverman, Brevity)

Essay Favorites

A Love Language Spoken With Hands (Ross Showalter, Modern Love)

First (Ryan Van Meter, CRAFT Literary)

In Too Deep (Dorian Fox, Booth)

Leap (Brian Doyle, originally published in Leaping: Revelations and Epiphanies by Brian Doyle)

Scared (Michael Chin, Thin Air Magazine)

After a Long Day, We Sat Down to Talk about My Diminished Ovarian Reserve, and Just Then You Found a Lump in Your Breast (Krys Malcolm Belc, Pidgeonholes)

Swerve (Brenda Miller, Brevity)

A Last Act of Intimate Kindness (Michelle Friedman, Modern Love)

O Pioneers! (Benjamin Anastas, Lives, New York Times Magazine)

Humor Favorites

I Am The Health Insurance That Denied Your CT Scan. You Should Try Shopping Organic. (Corey S. Johnsen, Little Old Lady Comedy)

You Should Try Running, According to Me, Your Friend Who Won’t Shut Up About Running (Emily Bressler, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency)

I’M COMIC SANS, ASSHOLE (Mike Lacher, McSweeney’s)

I Missed Out on Toyotathon and My Year Is Wasted (Michael Leonetti, Points In Case)

I Am the Reply All Button and God Am I Sexy (Calen MacDonald, Points In Case)

Pickleball: A Guide for Those Who Are Confused (Ben Kissam, Points In Case)