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media debate • books • movies

The Word Thieves

Feature by David Biddle

The digital frontier is a wide-open vista for both publishing and plagiarism.

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inspiration
why I write • faith • visual art

“Gregory Ojakpe Revisit” © Betty Southerland; used by permission
Betty Southerland: “There Are No Mistakes”

TW Interview by Donna Tallent

I watched my creative friends and learned how they made time for art: They stole their time back from the things that didn’t matter.

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craft
advice • teaching • interviews

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Ron MacLean on Writing

Interview by Kelcey Parker

They pushed me over the ledge into a free fall where I found my voice.

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stories
fiction • memoir • writer's life

"Ayatollah Khomeini’s Shrine in Southern Tehran" © Mojgan Ghazirad; used by permission
Khomeini’s Mausoleum

Essay by Mojgan Ghazirad

I felt as if I were standing under a giant tent erected on top of a jewelry box that bore the Ayatollah’s body.

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poetry
featured poets • poetry spotlights

Jennifer Denrow: From “At Cause”

TW Featured Poet

Places become very far away—they reserve themselves to time. They are rescued.

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hot topics
from adoption to writerly sins...

“A Woman’s Place” in the NYT Book Review

TW Opinion by Lorraine Berry and Martha Nichols

The issue could have been dubbed 'all that women's stuff we rarely cover.' It’s ironic, but not in a good way.

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