This is Working with Wiley Cash
THIS IS WORKING is a monthly guided experience from bestselling author Wiley Cash that engages your creative mind and boosts your creative process, all while you work at your own pace. There are two membership options:
Creators Notebook
$4.99 / month
The monthly CREATORS NOTEBOOK features a personal essay about creativity and process, as well as an exercise designed to get you seeing, thinking, and creating with renewed excitement, regardless of what you're creating.
Living in the Work
$9.99 / month
LIVING IN THE WORK includes the monthly CREATORS NOTEBOOK, as well as monthly videos in which Wiley talks with well-known writers, comedians, artists, and musicians from around the country to discuss creativity and their process.
LIVING IN THE WORK also includes a membership in the OPEN CANON BOOK CLUB, which features a monthly live, virtual book club discussion hosted by Wiley, as well as a 20% discount on book club selections from Bookmarks.
Selections for 2023:
January - Bloodline by Ernest J. Gaines
February - Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
March - Decent People by DeShawn Charles Winslow
April - Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
May - Refuse to Be Done by Matt Bell
June - Poems: New and Selected by Ron Rash
August - Blacktop Wasteland by S. A. Cosby
September - After the Lights Go Out by John Vercher
Click the links above or on the books below to purchase. Use the discount code CANON22 at checkout to receive a 20% discount. Add "Open Canon Book Club" to your order comments.
Wiley Cash is the New York Times bestselling author of four novels and the founder of This Is Working, an online creative community. He's been a fellow at Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony, and teaches fiction writing and literature at the University of North Carolina-Asheville. He lives in North Carolina with his wife, photographer Mallory Cash, and their daughters. Cash's short stories and essays have appeared in The Oxford American, Garden & Gun, Our State Magazine, and other publications, and his fiction has been adapted for the stage and film. He has taught creative writing and literature at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Bethany College, the University of North Carolina-Asheville, and the University of Louisiana-Lafayette. He holds a Ph.D. in American Literature from UL-Lafayette, an M.A. in English from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro, and a B.A. in Literature from UNC-Asheville.
Photo by Mallory Cash
They say writing is rewriting. So why does the second part get such short shrift? Refuse To Be Done will guide you through every step of the novel writing process, from getting started on those first pages to the last tips for making your final draft even tighter and stronger.
In these five stories, Ernest Gaines returns to the cane fields, sharecroppers' shacks, and decaying plantation houses of Louisiana, the terrain of his great novels A Gathering of Old Men and A Lesson Before Dying.
WINNER of the NATIONAL BOOK AWARD and A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
A finalist for the Kirkus Prize, Andrew Carnegie Medal, Aspen Words Literary Prize, and a New York Times bestseller, this majestic, stirring, and widely praised novel from two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward, the story of a family on a journey through rural Mississippi, i
From Center for Fiction First Novel Prize winning author De'Shawn Charles Winslow, a sweeping and unforgettable novel of a Black community reeling from a triple homicide, and the secrets the killings reveal.
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A collection of haunting lyricism that evokes the beauty and hardship of the rural South, by a revered American master of letters—the award-winning, bestselling author of the novels Serena, Something Rich and Strange, and Above the Waterfall.
A New York Times Notable Books of 2020
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A harrowing and spellbinding story about family, the complications of mixed-race relationships, misplaced loyalties, and the price athletes pay to entertain—from the critically acclaimed author of Three-Fifths
