recommended reading
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SHORT FICTION

FLASH SERIES

• Things I Can't Tell Amma by Sudha Balagopal, Split Lip Press
• Emancipation by Victoria Barrett, Monkeybicycle

ARTICLES

• Diversity, Anti-Harassment, and Equity in Publishing, Complied by Yilin Wang for the Magazine Association of BC and the Association of Book Publishers of BC (ABPBC) for the Greater Inclusivity, Accountability and Respect in Publishing Workshops May 23 and 24, 2019
• On Seeing and Being Seen: Writing with Empathy and Writing with Love, Alicia Elliott, Room Magazine
• "Racial Invisibility and Erasure in the Workshop" by Lisa Lee, Vida: Women in Literary Arts
  

CRAFT BOOKS

• Writing Intersectional Identities: Keywords for Creative Writers, Janelle Adsit, Renée M. Byrd, Bloomsbury, 2019
• Art and Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking ​by David Bayles and Ted Orland (1993)
• The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How to Decolonize the Creative Writing Classroom by Felicia Rose Chavez (2021).
  
• About Writing: Seven Essays, Four Letters & Five Interviews by Samuel R. Delany, 2006
• The Writing Life by Annie Dillard, 2013
• The Art of Dramatic Writing by Lajos Egri, 1972
• Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within by Natalie Goldberg, 1986
• A Passion for Narrative: A Guide to Writing Fiction, by Jack Hodgins, 2001
• Critical Response Process: A Method for Getting Useful Feedback, From Dance to Dessert​ by Liz Lerman
• The Way of the Writer: Reflections on the Art and Craft of Storytelling by Charles Johnson, 2016
• When the Rewards Can Be So Great: Essays on Writing and the Writing Life, Ed. by Dawes Kwame, 2016
• Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde, 2007
• Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott, 1995
• A Stranger's Journey: Race, Identity, & Narrative Craft in Writing by David Mura, 2018​
• Writing Alone and With Others by Pat Schneider, 2003​
• Craft and the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping by Matthew Salesses, 2021
  
• Elements of Indigenous Style: a guide for writing by and about indigenous peoples by Gregory Younging, 2018