Michael Steinberg

LITERARY JOURNALS

"Chin Music" (with a revised epilogue). The Gihon River Review, Fall, 2010, Vol 15, pp 39-51.
"Chin Music" was chosen as a "Notable Essay in Best American Essays, 2010.

"Annotations: An Inside/​Out Approach to Reading Like A Writer,” from Teaching the Essay pp 13-16, Welcome Table Press, October, 2010 Welcome Table.

From Staying In The Game: A Memoir, Solstice: A Magazine of Diverse Voices, Nonfiction, pp 1-5, Fall/​Winter, 2010-11 For complete essay see Solisticelitmag.

“Memory, Fact, Imagination, Research: Memoir’s Hybrid Personality”, Solstice, A Magazine of Diverse Voices, Fall, 2009, On Line Journal, Solistice.

“Shorelines: A Meditation in Seven Beaches,” Iron Horse Literary Review, Summer, 2008, pp 47-54

“Living in Michigan, Dreaming Manhattan,” The Pinch, Fall, 2008, pp 5-15

“Working Out: A Memoir.” Paterson Literary Review, 2007/​8, pp 260-276 Chosen as a Notable Essay, 2007, Best American Essays, ed. David Foster Wallace and Robert Atwan, Houghton Mifflin

“School Daze: Riffs and Reflections on a New York Childhood,” Harpur Palate, Winter, 2006, pp 120-134

“Finding the Inner Story in Memoirs and Personal Essays,” Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction, 5:1, Spring, 2003, pp 185-188

“Elegy for Ebbets,” New Letters, Spring/​Summer, 2002, pp 177-201
Chosen as a Notable Essay, 2003, Best American Essays 2030, ed. Anne Fadiman and Robert Atwan, Houghton Mifflin. Reprinted in Sport Literate, Special Issue: Retrospective Reflections, Spring, 2003, pp 120-135

“Planning For Surprise: The Role of Discovery in Writing Personal Essays and Memoirs.” Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction, 3:2, Fall, 2001, pp 222-227

“A Voice in the Choir: Musings of a Mid-life Writer.” The MacGuffin, Spring 2000, pp 82-86

“Dream Expatriate.” Reprinted in The MacGuffin: Dreams of Travel Thoughts of Home, Spring, 2001, pp 57-67

“Writing Literary Memoir: Are We Obliged to Tell the Real Truth?” Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction 1:1, Spring, 1999, pp 142-146

“Long Courtship,” Sport Literate, Winter, 1997, pp 6-20.

“Chin Music: A Memoir,” The Florida Review, Vol. 23, No. 1, Spring/​Summer 1997, pp 68-79
Chosen as a Notable Essay, Best American Essays, 1999, ed. Edward Hoagland and Robert Atwan, Houghton Mifflin. Reprinted in The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers Of/​On Creative Nonfiction ed. Robert Root and Michael Steinberg, Longman/​Allyn and Bacon (second-fifth editions, 2002, 2005, 2008, 2010)
Reprinted in The MacGuffin, Spring, 2000, pp 73-81

“Living the Leelanau, Writing New York,” The Dunes Review, Spring, 1997, pp 55-58

“Trading Off: A Memoir,” The Missouri Review, Vol. 12, No. 1, Spring, 1994 pp 136-157
Winner of the 1993 Missouri Review Editor’s Prize
Chosen as a Notable Essay, Best American Sports Writing, 1995, ed. Glenn Stout and Dan Jenkins, Houghton Mifflin Reprinted in The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers Of/​On Creative Nonfiction ed. Robert Root and Michael Steinberg, First Edition, 1998, Simon and Schuster/​Allyn and Bacon, pp 184-199
Reprinted in Scoring from Second, ed, Philip K. Deaver, 2007, Bison Books, University of Nebraska Press, pp 104-128. Trading Off.

“Dreams of Immortality,” The Writing Self: Journeys Into the Art of Writing, 33, Summer, 1994, pp 11-13

“In Memory of a World Class Horse Player,” Hoofbeats, 1992, pp 47-58
Winner of the 1992 Harness Racing Association Prize for Best Feature Article

“Hymie: A Memoir,” Roberts Writing Award Annual, Kansas City, 1991, pp 67-71
Winner, 1991 Roberts Writing Award

LITERARY ANTHOLOGIES

"Notes From an Accidental Journal Keeper,"Writers and Their Notebooks, ed, Dianna Rabb, University of South Carolina Press, 2009, pp 101-109

“High School Baseball Tryouts,” After the Fall, ed. Maggie Anderson and David Hassler, University of Iowa Press, 2007, pp 143-145

“Trading Off: A Memoir” (reprint), Scoring from Second, ed, Philip K. Deaver, Bison Books, University of Nebraska Press, 2007, pp 104-128

“Trading Off: A Memoir,” reprinted in The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers Of/​On Creative Nonfiction, ed. Robert Root and Michael Steinberg, Simon and Schuster/​Allyn and Bacon, first edition, 1998.

“Chin Music: A Memoir,” reprinted in The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers Of/​On Creative Nonfiction, ed. Robert Root and Michael Steinberg, second-fifth editions (2002.2005, 2007.2010) Allyn and Bacon/​Longman

“Dream Expatriate,” Peninsula: Essays and Memoirs From Michigan, ed. Michael Steinberg, Michigan State University Press, 2000, pp 209-221

“Finding the Inner Story in Personal Essays and Memoirs,” reprinted in,” The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers Of/​On Creative Nonfiction ed. Robert Root and Michael Steinberg, third-fifth editions, 2007, Allyn and Bacon/​Longman


TEACHING JOURNALS

“Teaching Writing Creatively: A Very Personal Approach to Creative Writing,” New Plains Review, Fall, 2008 pp 134-140

“Teaching Composition, Writing Creative Nonfiction: A Personal Narrative,” Writing on the Edge, Fall, 2007, pp 34-40.

‘Writing Literary Memoir: Are We Obliged to Tell the Real Truth?” reprinted in Writing on the Edge, 12:1, Fall/​Winter 2001, pp 15-20.

TEACHING ANTHOLOGIES

“Three Things That Stopped Me in My Tracks: An Exercise in Discovery and Reflection,” reprinted in Now Write Nonfiction: Memoir, Journalism, and Creative Nonfiction From today’s Best Writers and Teachers, ed. Sherry Ellis, Tarcher/​Penguin December, 2009, pp 3-5

“Planning for Surprise: The Role of Discovery in Writing and Teaching Nonfiction,” reprinted in Open Book, ed Kate Fetherston, Roger Weingarten, Cambridge Scholars, Press, 2006, pp 297-302

“Self Discovery to Self Examination: Teaching the Personal Essay as Inquiry,” Teaching Writing Creatively, ed. David Starkey, Boynton Cook/​Heinemann, 1998, pp 71-85

“The Writing is For Us: Granting Ourselves Permission Though Personal Narratives,” Robert L. Root and Michael Steinberg, Those Who Do, Can: Teachers Writing, Writers Teaching , A Sourcebook, National Council of Teachers of English Press (NCTE), 1996, pp 3-18

“Creating Our Own: Writing About Literature in Expressive and Imaginative Forms,” Robert L. Root and Michael Steinberg, Those Who Do, Can: Teachers Writing, Writers Teaching, A Sourcebook, National Council of Teachers of English Press (NCTE), 1996, pp 149-159

“Teachers Writing, Writers Teaching: Serving Two Passions, Workshop 6:The Teacher as Writer, ed. Maureen Barbieri and Linda Rief, Heinemann, 1994, pp 10-17

“Moving On" and "Why Write Narrative, Writers in the Classroom", ed. Ruth Nathan, Christopher Gordon Publishers,1994, pp 1-3 and 4-13.

SELECTED (VERY) POEMS

“Stand and Deliver Meets Dead Poets Society,” Writing on the Edge, Fall/​ Winter 1996/​1997 p 46

“Elegy for Ebbets” Sport Literate, Winter, 1996/​1997, p. 46