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media debate • books • movies

"We All Have the Tools to Fly, Just Imagine You Can" © Rubén Chase; Creative Commons license
The Case of the Disappearing Editor

TW Column by Martha Nichols

In the battle over submission fees, what troubles me most is the idea that writers do everything and editors do nothing.

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inspiration
why I write • faith • visual art

Edited WPA Literacy Poster © Federal Art Project; public domain
Turn the Page

Essay by Miriam Cole

A survivor craves closeness, yet sabotages even the slightest hint of it.

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craft
advice • teaching • interviews

"Ash Point, Maine" © Heather Phillips; Creative Commons license
What I’ve Come So Far to Tell Them

Theme Essay by Robin McCarthy

I understood the blank stares and raw anguish when I asked those students about their homes.

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stories
fiction • memoir • writer's life

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Airbrushed Memories

Flash Nonfiction by Marlene Olin

She convinced herself that the people on the walls were really her family.

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poetry
featured poets • poetry spotlights

“County Storm” © Jennifer Powers; used with permission
Mad Libs: Deep State

Poem by Susan Terris

It was the best of times, until the big man whose clock struck thirteen made it the worst of times.

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hot topics
from adoption to writerly sins...

“bioDIVERSITY: Ridgeline-Presence” © Kathleen Caprario; used by permission
Tonnage

Poem by Samantha Grenrock

We don’t know who buries us.

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