I’m a typical obsessive-compulsive writer with a lot of insecurity so I usually end my assertions with the question: “Does that make sense?” It’s tiring to second guess myself all the time. Like recently during a writing workshop I attended in Queretaro, Mexico. While I was eating gummy bears and wasting time on the Internet […]
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Who knows how far his poem will travel? For many of us, most of our poems won’t make it past the rectangular space of our door. And, if a poem does manage to make it into the world and thrive, it’s often without our intent. The poem makes its own way, finds its own home,
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The subject of determination and stamina came up recently with some writer friends. I feel like I can talk about this with some authority not just for myself but because I’ve been in contact with writers from all stages since I was in high school, when my best friend and I decided we were going
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There is a common ingredient to all writing I find most compelling: soul-baring honesty. This is true for both fiction and nonfiction. Most of what’s considered nonfiction is actually fiction, as it’s necessarily filtered through a perception shaped by beliefs and experiences and opinions and biases. But when a writer testifies — when she writes
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Savannah Johnston is a citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. Her work has appeared in Gulf Coast, HTMLgiant, and Gravel, among others. She lives in New York City. Johnston is the author of Rites: Stories
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Donna Miscolta, who grew up in California and now lives in Seattle, has a bachelor’s degree in zoology from San Diego State University and a master’s degree in education and public administration from the University of Washington. Through the years, she took classes and workshops in fiction writing and published two novels: When the de la
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Sion Dayson grew up in North Carolina and earned an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her work has appeared in Electric Literature, Utne Reader, and many other venues, and her writings often focus on travel, living abroad, and her literary hero, James Baldwin. Her popular blog paris (im)perfect explored the City of Light’s less glamorous side. After a
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Fayeza Hasanat, a Bangladeshi-American writer, teaches at the English Department of the University of Central Florida. Born and raised in Bangladesh, Hasanat completed her MA from the English Department of Dhaka University, Bangladesh before coming to the US. A Fulbright scholar, she then earned an MA and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Florida.
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Kim Dana Kupperman a critically acclaimed, award-winning essay collection, I Just Lately Started Buying Wings. Missives from the Other Side of Silence(Graywolf Press, 2010). She is the lead editor ofYou: An Anthology of Essays Devoted to the Second Person (2013) and publisher of the anthologyEssaying the Essay (2014). Ms. Kupperman is the founding editor of Welcome Table Press, an independent
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Rosalie Morales Kearns, a writer of Puerto Rican and Pennsylvania Dutch descent, is the founder of Shade Mountain Press, the author of the magic-realist story collection Virgins and Tricksters, and the editor of the short story anthology The Female Complaint: Tales of Unruly Women. A product of Catholic schooling from kindergarten through college, Kearns has a B.A. in
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