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How do you frame a life? How do you condense research into narrative? How do you wrangle archival sources and harness the power of the interview? Mayukh Sen, doreen st. félix, Jiayang Fan 樊嘉扬, Julie Phillips @jcfphillips.bsky.social, and J. Escobedo Shepherd are here to answer your questions: offassignment.com/writing-people
Grateful to learn that my essay is one of Off Assignment’s most read of 2024, along with nine other stunning stories from around the world. Thank you to everyone who read and shared my work 🥹 offassignment.com/articles/steve…
My year in publications was a slow one, but I did hand in the sh*tty first draft of my bonkers dissertation! I was proud to have an essay in Off Assignment - also recorded for audio at Atlas Obscura. Writers, post your brags!
Through our partnership with Off Assignment, we’re pleased to share a recent gem from them, “Midnight on the Volta River” by Charlotte McManus | [email protected] — a poignant tale of love, risk and reinvention. offassignment.com/witching-hour/…
New essay by DISQUIET staff member Steven Tagle in Off Assignment (Off Assignment)! offassignment.com/articles/steve…
Thrilled to have my essay be a part of Off Assignment's Witching Hour series. offassignment.com/witching-hour/…
Always call your mom. Love this from Off Assignment offassignment.com/articles/eliza…
Last summer, Off Assignment's month-long “Writing the Modern Love Essay” Masters’ Series course, led by Lavinia Spalding, gave me insight into the column’s structure & helped me answer the trickiest question: What's my unique revelation about the nature of love and relationships?
Launching our new Off Assignment column, "Goodbye to that Place," with this stunner of an essay by Leslie Jamison. Please read: short & oh-so-powerful. Writers, if you have your own narrative farewell to a bygone place--start drafting, we'd love to read it. offassignment.com/gttp/leslie-ja…
Introducing our new column—"Goodbye to That Place"—with a gut-punch of a short piece by Leslie Jamison (one of OA's very first contributors!) about a home—now lost—that witnessed her childhood and adolescence in the Palisades. Read this stunning piece here: offassignment.com/gttp/leslie-ja…
"Where I practiced what I would say to everyone on the first day of junior high. (I love how rain looks falling on water.)" Leslie Jamison Off Assignment offassignment.com/gttp/leslie-ja…
We've long been thinking about how farewell can mediate our relationships to place: whether it be temporary departure or, in the case of Leslie Jamison's essay this week, permanent loss. Read about the inspiration behind our new column, Goodbye to That Place: mailchi.mp/offassignment/…
In 2007, Dr. Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai stood at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, unable to enter—until a letter at the foot of the black marble changed her life. This month marks the 50th anniversary of Vietnam war; this essay calls for humanity in the face of horror: offassignment.com/articles/nguye…
If you're looking to attend a writing seminar this summer, check out Off Assignment's new series on Writing the Body! Guest authors include SLM contributor @christinajcooke and memoir editor krys malcolm belc, so you know it'll be great. Learn more here: buff.ly/FUxQphC
In this week's "Behind the Essay," Dr. Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai tells us about what surprised her while writing her Letter to a Stranger, her hopes surrounding the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam war, and the books that inspire her. Read the full interview: mailchi.mp/offassignment/…
Wrote about my buddy Kate's Garfield from Memory art project for Off Assignment offassignment.com/undertheinflue…
Excited to share my latest words in one of my favorite literary magazines Off Assignment. Thank you to my wonderful editor! offassignment.com/witching-hour/…