Want to Learn How Other Writers Have Incorporated Objects?

Here are a few resources regarding looking at artifacts:

• Smithsonian Institute: Looking at Artifacts, Thinking about History
• What is Material Culture? (University of Delaware)
• Analyzing Artifacts

Here are a few resources for writing about objects:

• Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats | The Poetry Foundation
• How Everyday Objects Can Help You Write Better Stories
• The Great War: Stories Inspired by Objects from the First World War
• Writing Things: Writing Prompts for the Things We Carry | Writing Maps: Creative Writing Prompts and Ideas for Stories
• The Magic of Objects | The Ploughshares Blog
• Generate Ideas Through “Object Writing” | WritersDigest.com
• Guide | Objects Exercise | College Essay Guy
• Object Lessons – Essays
• People Holding …
• Singular Images: Essays on Remarkable Photographs
• Significant Objects | …and how they got that way
• FOUND POLAROIDS
• Notes on Ekphrasis | Academy of American Poets
• The Book | 26treasures.com
• ‘Portrait of a working class woman’ by Deborah Tyler-Bennett – Victoria and Albert Museum
• ‘Little song’ by Deborah Tyler-Bennett – Victoria and Albert Museum
• ‘Handle with care’ by Nii Parkes – Victoria and Albert Museum
• ‘Mary’s elephant, Elizabeth’s spinet’ by Ruth Padel – Victoria and Albert Museum
• ‘The British Galleries’ by Andrew Motion – Victoria and Albert Museum
• ‘Antimony’ by Antony Dunn – Victoria and Albert Museum
• ‘Upon A Claude Glass’ by Michael Donaghy – Victoria and Albert Museum
• ‘The Wearer’ by Colette Bryce – Victoria and Albert Museum
• ‘Once Upon A Time’ by Valerie Bloom – Victoria and Albert Museum
• ‘Margaret Laton’s Jacket’ by Steve Barker – Victoria and Albert Museum
• Rainer Maria Rilke, Torso of an Archaic Apollo
• The New Formalist – Volume VI, Number 2
• The Things They Carried
• Guest Blog: 10 Examples of Ekphrasis in Contemporary Literature | Interesting Literature