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What is a Personal Essay in Writing?

“A personal essay is ‘all over the map’. There’s nothing you can’t do with it. No subject matter is forbidden, no structure is prescribed. You get to make up your own form every time.” Annie Dillard, To Fashion a Text,…

  • Jenny Zimmer
  • September 20, 2022
  • book reviews, flash fiction, literature

6 Selected Flash Fiction Stories and Collections in the Age of Lightning-Fast Reads

“For sale: baby shoes, never worn”   -Ernest Hemingway (1991) Flash fiction is not a recent discovery in the world of literature. It has been around for generations, its genres evolving from micro-fiction and short short-stories. As a writer and…

  • Jenny Zimmer
  • September 7, 2022
  • Essay

Must-Read Personal Essay Collections Recommended by an Essayist

“A writer, or any man, must believe that whatever happens to him is an instrument; everything has been given for an end. This is even stronger in the case of the artist. Everything that happens, including humiliations, embarrassments, misfortunes, all…

  • Jenny Zimmer
  • August 26, 2022
  • Short Stories

5 Favorite Short Story Collections to Read in 2022

I have always found that short stories offer readers more than just a quick feast of literature. When written right and read properly, short stories hold a likeness to fireworks that explode in front of us with captivating imagery, prose…

  • Jenny Zimmer
  • August 17, 2022
  • Short Stories

Legendary Short Story Writers and What We Can Learn From Them

“It was a joy. Words weren’t dull, words were things that could make your mind hum. If you read them and let yourself feel the magic, you could live without pain, with hope, no matter what happened to you.” Ham…

  • Jenny Zimmer
  • August 11, 2022
  • Poetry

Introduction to Traditional Poetry vs. Modern Poetry – as Perceived by a Poetess

“Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all.” From Hope is the Thing with Feathers by Emily Dickinson (1891) “But there are moments, walking, when…

  • Jenny Zimmer
  • July 29, 2022
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