On Writing, Craft, and Meaning

Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within, Old Friend From Far Away, and Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life by Natalie Goldberg

Reflections on a Writing Life by Madeleine L'Engle

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott

The Writing Life  by Annie Dillard

The Marginalian by Maria Popova

On Writing and Writers by C.S. Lewis

Let Your Life Speak by Parker Palmer

Steering the Craft: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story  by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Paris Review Interviews featuring interviews with Toni Morrison, T.S. Eliot, and more

Poets & Writers Magazine featuring current topics, tips, authors, agents, publishers, fellowships, grants and more

A Room of Her Own Foundation featuring work from diverse women writers worldwide, past and present

The Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr. and E.B. White

The Associated Press Stylebook by the Associated Press

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King

Diary of Anais Nin, Volume 4:1944-1947

Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers by Leonard Koren

The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp

The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity by Julia Cameron

The Book of Alchemy by Suleika Jaouad

Pilgrim and The Heart Aroused  by David Whyte

On Cultural Intelligence

All About Love by bell hooks

Night by Elie Wiesel

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings  and Oh Pray My Wings are Gonna Fit Me Well by Maya Angelou

Becoming Wise by Krista Tippett

Breathe: A Letter to My Sons & A Narrative of Sojourner Truth by Imani Perry

Becoming Rooted by Randy Woodley

Black Indian by Shonda Buchanan

American Indian Stories by Zitkála-Šáa

Journey into Speech with Michelle Cliff

The War Still Within: Poems of the Korean Diaspora by Tanya Ko Hong

A Door Made for Me by Tyler Merritt

Clay Walls by Ronyoung Kim

Braiding Sweetgrass and The Serviceberry by Robin Kimmerer

Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask by Anton Treuer

The Language of Trees by Katie Holten

Thinking in Pictures, The Autistic Brain, & Animals in Translation by Temple Grandin

Demystifying Disability  by Emily Ladau

Disability Visibility (Anthology) by Alice Wong

The Story of My Life by Helen Keller

Borderlands by Anzaldúa, Gloria, Norma E. Cantú, and Aída Hurtado

Frida Kahlo and My Left Leg by Emily Rapp Black

I Am Not a Label by Cerrie Burnell and Lauren Mark Baldo

I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown

We Are Bridges by Cassandra Lane

The Hill We Climb by Amanda Gorman

Maori Boy by Witi Ihimaera

Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin

Read Your World: A Guide to Multicultural Children's Books for Parents and Educators by Mia Wenjen (ed)

WHEREAS: Poems by Layli Long Soldier

Finding Your Element by Sir Ken Robinson

The Power of Vulnerability by Brene' Brown

Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings , How We Became Human, American Sunrise, and A Map to the Next World by Joy Harjo

ONEING: Loving in a Time of Exile edited by Mark Longhurst



“Writing novels is much the same. You gather up bones and make your gate, but no matter how wonderful the gate might be, that alone doesn't make it a living breathing novel. A story is not something of this world. A real story requires a kind of magical baptism to link the world on this side with the world on the other side.” 

– Haruki Murakami

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