A Writer’s Craft – Kendall Dunkelberg

How I Finally Wrote a Sestina, and Why

Why receiving a fellowship prompted me to finish a sestina and how I did it.

New Review of Tree Fall with Birdsong

How I happened upon a recent user review of my recent collection of poetry.

How I revised, A Writer’s Craft

Now that the second edition of A Writer’s Craft has been sent to my editor at Bloomsbury, I reflect on the semester-long process of revising.

Recent Developments on AI for Writers

I talke about my experience signing an AI opt-in agreement and with learning about tne Anthropic settlement.

Where in the World Is A Writer’s Craft?

Seeing where A Writer’s Craft has been sold leads to insights and confirms my plans as I work toward a second edition.

A Writer’s Craft Transfer Is Complete

I’ve been chronicalling the transfer of my creative writing textbook A Writers’ Craft between publishers. When I signed the contract, it was with Palgrave, and by the time the book came out, they were officially part of Macmillan International Higher Ed, and it was soon shifted over to their imprint Red Globe Press. This summer,Continue reading “A Writer’s Craft Transfer Is Complete”

Persona vs Narrator

Today a question came in about using persona to describe the narrator in fiction.

Mourning Daunte Wright

This is a terribly horrific and sad week in America. Once again, a young black man has been killed on our streets — this time in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, as the trial of the police officer who killed George Floyd goes on just 11 miles away. This time, Daunte Wright’s death is portrayed as aContinue reading “Mourning Daunte Wright”

Inclusivity: Expanding the Canon

How A Writer’s Craft Can be a (more) Anti-Racist Textbook, Part 5 Chapter 4 of Felicia Rose Chavez’s The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop talks about how Chavez moved from being taught with the standard literature anthologies when she was in college, reading the assigned white writers from library copies in old editions or photocopying assignments becauseContinue reading “Inclusivity: Expanding the Canon”

Confronting My Discomfort About Anti-Racism

How A Writer’s Craft Can be a (more) Anti-Racist Textbook, Part 4 As I’ve tried to lay out in my first three posts of this series, I am very interested in and supportive of the move to create an anti-racist creative writing workshop. That doesn’t mean that the conversation is always comfortable, nor should itContinue reading “Confronting My Discomfort About Anti-Racism”