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Archives and Creative Writing

This guide offers resources, prompts, and readings about how to use archival materials for creative writing projects.

Below is a list of selected works of creative writing in which the authors made use of archival sources either for research or as direct source material for their work.

Conrad, C A. Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon: New (soma)tics. AMHERST: WAVE BOOKS, 2013.

Ewing, Eve L. 1919. London: Penguin Books, 2020.Hill, Sean. Blood Ties & Brown Liquor: Poems. Athens, Ga: Univ. of Georgia Press, 2008.

Howe, Susan. That This. New York: New Directions Pub, 2010.

Ivey, Eowyn. To the Bright Edge of the World: A Novel. New York: Back Bay Books, Little, Brown and Company, 2017.

Jordan, A V. M-a-c-n-o-l-i-a: Poems. New York: W.W. Norton & Co, 2005.

Kaufman, Rachel. Many to Remember. Loveland, Ohio: Dos Madres Press, Inc., 2021.

Magi, Jill. Labor. Brooklyn, NY: Nightboat Books, 2014.

O'Donnell, Nicole S. Steam Laundry: Poems. Fairbanks, AK: Boreal Books, 2012.

Philip, M. NourbeSe. Zong!S.l.: SILVER PRESS, 2020.

Trethewey, Natasha D. Bellocq's Ophelia: Poems. Saint Paul, Minn: Graywolf Press, 2002.

Sinor, Jennifer. The Extraordinary Work of Ordinary Writing: Annie Ray's Diary. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2002.