The Artisanal Writer is an online journal and literary arts collective exploring, inquiring and celebrating the craft and practice of writing. It explores what makes great writing, how it happens and how writers we love to read, watch, or listen to, make it happen.
Featuring previously unpublished interviews, reviews and essays about craft in poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction the journal aims to address the forever open question of how best to read, reveal and refine what is meaningful in our world universally and in the place and time we particularly belong. It seeks to find a way into the writer’s unique aesthetic in the context of what we understand as shared principles.
The AW Artist Collective organizes workshops, in memoir and poetry writing for marginalized, excluded, relegated, and disadvantaged social groups. In doing so, it focuses on identity awareness, legacy building, culture preservation, community arts and issues of cultural democracy.
AW accepts submissions for Craft Essays through Duotrope; for submission guidelines visit the Submit page. To request book reviews, interviews or discussions use the contact form.
Content in the Artisanal Writer is protected under the Creative Commons License. The journal will retain exclusive copyright for 30 days for any content published. Within this period content published in the Artisanal Writer may not be republished elsewhere, in any form (original or adapted) without consent from the publishers.
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