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Research and Memoir: Toggling Between Yourself and World, Part 1By Jody Keisner Jody Keisner A Q&A WITH MINNA DUBIN, SOFIA ALI-KAHN, and ERICA BERRY It sometimes...
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Is Chat GPT Coming for Creative Nonfiction?Could a personal essay be crafted by 1s and 0s? By Lise Funderburg At the close of every semester, I’m plunged into nostalgia...
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Brevity Reading Period to Close in Two DaysBrevity’ s reading period for general submissions and also for our special issue on Transgender Experience will end on April...
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It’s Going to Have All the Right StuffBy Victoria Lynn Smith I’ll write the best damn piece of shit that I can write today. I’ll bare my soul, not keep anything...
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How Breadcrumbs Are Making Me a Better WriterBy Amanda Le Rougetel They say teachers make the worst students, but I am loving my writing apprenticeship program—and I am top of...
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Finding Inspiration in the I & the EyeConnecting with readers through heart and head. By Suzanne Cope More than a decade ago, in the haze of finishing my...
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In Favor of Clicking the Submit Button Too SoonBy Kate Langenberg It was a fairly straightforward challenge: write an essay of no more than 500 words about a vacation gone wrong....
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Zen and the Art of QueryingBy Deborah Lindsay Williams I am not by nature a patient person. I think microwave popcorn takes too long. You will thus...
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Memoir is Exploration, So Keep Yourself Open: An Interview with Abigail ThomasLike Abigail Thomas’s previous memoirs and essay collections , Still Life At Eighty: The Next Interesting Thing, is wise,...
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Raising the DeadBy Rona Maynard After my friend Val died at 57, I kept trying to write her back to life. Thirty years of memories flared on my...
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Rejection Is (Still) Not FeedbackBy Allison K Williams Five years ago, I wrote about rejection : Rejection is not feedback. Rejection is not feedback....
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Keeping It a Small World After AllThe Challenges of Bringing Your Narrator into the Broadest (and Most Magical) Places on Earth By Margaret Anne Mary Moore It...
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Writing Group Feedback: How to Maintain Moral IntegrityBy Barbie Beaton In memoir, the narrator’s journey often starts in a forest of confusion as she navigates moral conflicts toward...
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The Perils of Publishing: A Hidden GiftRejections and Setbacks Hurt, But Given Time, They Make Great Stories By Pamela Jane Before I began writing full-time, I...
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True FlashIs there a recipe for writing successful flash? By Heather Sellers I love reading flash essays—true stories that fit on a page...
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A Very Small Writing PracticeBy Carmella de los Angeles Guiol These days, when people ask me how my writing is going, I try my best not to roll my eyes and bite...
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A Full Circle Moment Ten Years in the MakingBy Melanie Brooks Exactly a decade ago, only two months into my MFA, I attended my first Association of Writers and Writing...
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Ayurvedic Eye Care Tips for WritersBy Sweta Srivastava Vikram Over the years, especially since the pandemic hit, and we went on PAUSE … I have noticed...
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Why I Wasn’t Ready to Go to AWP This YearBy Zach Semel The day before I hopped on a cheap Las Vegas flight to Seattle, I apologized to one of my creative writing students....
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Writing Lessons from a Glorious Glutes ClassBy Phyllis Brotherton It sounded like a great challenge. I email the instructor to see if the class is too advanced for me, a just...
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On Restraint: Writing About Grief After SuicideBy Rita Malenczyk My son Nick died by suicide four years ago; I’ve written and published several personal essays and poems...
