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media debate • books • movies

"Hoodoos in DigiLand" © Martha Nichols
Digital Media and the Wild Imagination

TW Column by Martha Nichols

There’s nothing like a thirteen-year-old to get a parent raving about the evils of technology.

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inspiration
why I write • faith • visual art

© Heather Robinson
How I Grew Wings

Essay by Kim Triedman

I steered clear of anything creative, preferring the safety of science over nuance. I lived my life with one finger on my own pulse.

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craft
advice • teaching • interviews

Anjan Chatterjee
Author Talk: Anjan Chatterjee

Video Interview by John Vogel

How do you make the case to people who don't necessarily believe that art matters?

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stories
fiction • memoir • writer's life

Enough With the Copy

Essay by Christine Grimaldi

Nora Ephron’s pearls of wisdom could not make the grain of sand at their core any less irritating.

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poetry
featured poets • poetry spotlights

"Bone" © Terje Asphaug; Creative Commons license
The Grimm Forest Open-Air Museum

Hybrid Poetry by Sarah Ann Winn

Snow White, anemic: Should have eaten more red meat.

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hot topics
from adoption to writerly sins...

"Without Love You Are Nothing #6/6" © Ronn aka "Blue" Aldaman; Creative Commons license
My Mother’s Mantra

Flash Nonfiction by Nicole Simonsen

I was, at that point in my life, an authority on nothing, except maybe seizures.

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