I am a writer, bringing words to life through essays, stories, blog posts, and books. I have contributed essays to three books, including, "Letters to Me: Conversations with a Younger Self". I also am a content editor at The High Calling and a contributing writer at TweetSpeak Poetry. I co-led Tweetspeak Poetry’s “The Writing Life” workshop with Ann Kroeker. I live with my husband and three step-sons in rural Indiana. You can find me online at charitysingletoncraig.com, on Twitter@charityscraig, and on Facebook.
A story from the archive about, among other things, trigger warnings, surviving cancer, YA novels, and democracy.
[The following story was originally published in March of 2016] My family owns a book I will never read. Actually, we own more than one book that I’ll likely not take time for: my stepson’s copy of Si-cology written by Duck Dynasty star Si Robertson, my husband’s 150 Years of Baseball, and a borrowed […]
Tricks Every Boy Can Do falls in the tradition of brother narratives, but it stands apart in its decency.
We live in a world of constant entertainment—but is too much stimulation boring?
“Nobody can get a secure grip on this nearly infinite variety of inquiry and vocabulary, but every attempt to read across the boundaries of one’s own preferred practices is a tonic and a stimulant.” ~ Alan Jacobs
What Mary Karr’s New Book Teaches Us About Ourselves
Dinosaurs, Time Travel, and the Importance of Being Where You Are
Charity S. Craig on memory, Amy Poehler, and the act of discovery
The Genus and Species of Writing
Are publishers limiting the scope and quality of writers’ work when they force them into strict categories?
We recently talked with Paul Budnitz, CEO of Ello, the “revolutionary social network that is transforming how people connect.”
Creating Better Art through the Process of Revision
Exploring Our Ephemera on Three Levels
…it wasn’t until I experienced for myself the extent of the repetition and revision of painting the same few objects over and over again—the bones, the flowers, the mountains, the doors—that I understood the collective effect of a long career and close collaboration in not only documenting, but defining a place and time.
“Maybe we all dream of being God, the god who breaches dams, moves houses suddenly, erects bridges, decides where forests will be and who will die.” -Rebecca Sonlit
ArtEverywhereUS.org answers: what about those for whom exposure to art isn’t readily available, or those whose negligible or nonexistent interest in art prevents them from seeking out opportunities to view it?
“Mid-century Modern designers never expected their post-war homes to be temporary dwellings, replaced cheaply in just a few decades. But they also could not have pictured that the light of those floor-to-ceiling windows and the open-concept floor plan would nurse a woman back to health from cancer.”
On Wallace Stegner's Advice and the Blogosphere
In asking who we are writing for, we often come back around to asking why are we writing in the first place. Why would we even want an audience? When it comes to identifying our solitary reader, perhaps why is the better question.
Charity Singleton Craig on the essays of Scott Russell Sanders
On incarnating a “new awareness we have been granted through the genius of someone else”
Despite our modern confusion, food is not individual, but communal, cultural even. We let the same flavors tease our palates as we tease each other with our proximity and our humor.
What About the Shop Around the Corner?
The hardware store around the corner closed down sometime in the last few weeks, and it’s my fault.
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