Tom Jenks is a founder and coeditor of Narrative. He is the author of A Poetics of Fiction: Six Chapters on the Art of Imaginative Prose and My Reading: James’s Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues.”
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- Narrative 10, an interview, in Winter 2025
- Tom Jenks on Editing The Garden of Eden, a narrative outloud - audio, in Fall 2022
- A Workshop on James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues”, a narrative outloud - video, in Unscheduled Stories
- Agents: The Business of Writing, an essay, in Fall 2020
- Merry Elf, a short story, in Winter 2019
- So You’re Thinking of Getting an MFA . . ., an essay, in Stories of the Week: 2017–2018
- The Garden of Eden at Twenty-Five, an essay, in Spring 2011
- Introduction to Narrative Reading, a narrative outloud - audio, in Winter 2006
- A Brief Handbook of Revision for Writers, an essay, in Fall 2009
IN THE STORE:
- The Writer’s Life
- From Tom Jenks, A Poetics of Fiction: a Master Class in Writing, the book, an on-demand video tutorial, and a thousand practical tools