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Magic Made RealBy Ploi Pirapokin If pigs can fly, how might farmers secure their livestock at night? During my time as a student at the...
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That’s Tight: A Brief Lesson on Flash WritingBy Chelsey Clammer It was nineteen years ago, when I was just twenty-one years old, that I kissed my dead father’s cold, gray,...
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What I Learned About Writing from a Podcast on Celebrity MemoirsBy Christine Norman I spend a lot of time alone in my car, checking on parents a four-hour drive away, then continuing along a...
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It’s Not You. Really.By Allison K Williams There was nothing wrong with Goldilocks (other than a little breaking-and-entering, of course). Or the beds....
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Writing Struggles—How a DIY Retreat HelpedBy Lina Lau and Jennifer Robinson Lina Lau Two decades ago, we met in grad school, where we sat across from each other in...
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Why Taboo Topics Can Make the Best Creative Nonfictionby Katie Bannon For many of us, writing about a stigmatized topic like mental illness, sex, and violence can seem akin to stripping...
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Thank You For Being HonestBy Sarah Canney The dead-end road climbs to the little 1800s farmhouse they bought when they sold my childhood home. I’m speeding...
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Journaling as a Private Playground: In Search of the Burning QuestionBy Olga Katsovskiy At the recent Boston Book Festival, memoirist Kelly McMasters told her fellow writers that she simply does not...
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What to Do When the Vitriol Comes for YouBy Blair Glaser Though she knew better, memoirist Suzanne Roberts ( Animal Bodies; Bad Tourist ) bit into the forbidden apple of...
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Buried Under a Pile of Not Good Enoughby Amy Suardi Whenever I hear an author advise, Finish what you start, I slink backward. I just spent 4 years writing a memoir...
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Technology Holds My New Writing Secret. No, It’s Not AI.By Karen DeBonis During the years I struggled to keep up with the demands of working motherhood, I often lamented to my mother...
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A Brevity ThanksgivingA sincere giving of thanks to the thousands of readers who visit our pages, the dedicated teachers who feature us in the classroom, and all of...
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In Praise of “Ain’t”By Richard Goodman Reading a column by Roy Blount, Jr.—such a delightful fellow—on regional speech inspired me to write a few...
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Time Well Spent (at Sea): A Live ReportFollowing in the wake of Dinty W. Moore’s Blog Post last week. By Amy Goldmacher I write to you from somewhere southwest of...
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Write A Letter, Develop Your VoiceBy Ann MacDonald In The Art of Memoir, Mary Karr writes, “Each great memoir lives or dies based 100 percent on voice.” But how do...
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Writing about Race (Without Fear)By John Streamas More than a century ago, W. E. B. Du Bois wrote that the greatest issue facing the United States in the twentieth...
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A Collaboration of Bodies: How Publishing in an Anthology Can Expand Your Literary CommunityBy Nina B. Lichtenstein I was thrilled when my essay, “Belly,” was accepted to the anthology Awakenings: Stories of Body &...
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A Micromemoir FailBy Suzette Mullen Seven years after my divorce, I was part of a beautiful tableau: my wife and I, my ex-husband and his wife, and...
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Time Well Spent (at Sea)By Dinty W. Moore I am not a cruise person. Or to be more specific, I have never been on a cruise, have never imagined myself on a...
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Five Scenes Your Book NeedsBy Allison K Williams What I love most about being married to a non-writer is the conversations. His questions about publishing are...
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ImperfectionBy Abigail Thomas If I were shooting for perfection, I’d never have bought more clay. Luckily I prefer imperfection. It feels more...
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Hooked by a CommaBy Diane Kraynak & Scott Hurd We are a literary couple. We’re not famous household names, like Stephen and Tabitha...
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Lit Mag Submissions Minus the MysteryBy Becky Tuch The first time I heard people talking about literary magazines was at a writing conference almost two decades ago. A...
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Memoir or Novel?By Rebecca Morrison After losing my legal contracting job at the beginning of the pandemic, I put my fears aside and pursued my...
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Work Your WritingBy Clorisa Phillips Writing essays and a memoir-in-progress is work for me. In a good way. When I retired from my...
