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media debate • books • movies

Beyond the Tiger Mother

Book Review by Grace Hwang Lynch

Being a real Tiger Mom or Dad is more complicated than hectoring kids with Confucian ideology.

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inspiration
why I write • faith • visual art

"So, I Decided to Write Down My Feelings" © Scott Miles Love; Creative Commons license
After the First Cremation

TW Column by Steven Lewis

This year, I added a new event: the Journal Burning Bonfire.

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craft
advice • teaching • interviews

What Writing Program Critics Don’t Know

Theme Essay by Theresa Williams

They think people are either born to be writers or they’re not.

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stories
fiction • memoir • writer's life

"If Everything Is Connected, so Am I" © Jill Slaymaker; used by permission
Camera Obscura

Personal Essay by Rebecca Schumejda

I’m afraid of contributing to the stigma of mental illness by telling this story.

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poetry
featured poets • poetry spotlights

“Temple of Baal, Starry Sky” © Saïd Nuseibeh; used by permission
Mehrnoosh Torbatnejad: Two Poems

TW Featured Poetry

Climb until every pixel
 of the sky’s bloom falls directly into your view.

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hot topics
from adoption to writerly sins...

The Kitchen Conjuror

Book Review by Lorraine Berry

Anger is the sensation of 'peppercorns in a mortar and pestle, grinding around in a circle until they finally yield and crack.'

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