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CRAFT ESSAYS

Hawks and Walkaways: How Nature Can Aid Revision

Cincinnati Review

Story Crafting Below the Surface

Reckon Review

Tellers

Fiction Southeast “Why I Write” Series

 

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

Smokelong Quarterly

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

Jolene McIlwain on Rural America, Songwriting, and Oral Storytelling

Literary Hub

Bartleby and Workplace Lit: An Essay by Jolene McIlwain

Melville House

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

Heavy Feather Review

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

Jolene McIlwain at Writer's Digest

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Jolene McIlwain is a writer of fiction, flash memoir, and personal essays. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions, and Best American Short Stories and appears in numerous literary journals. Her debut short story collection is forthcoming from Melville House (May 2023).

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