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media debate • books • movies

Shouting Outside the Halls of Art

TW Opinion by Andrew Vanden Bossche

Metroid is as obtuse as a silent film, crude as a pictogram, an endless winding maze without a human soul.

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inspiration
why I write • faith • visual art

The Art of Relocation

Essay by Trina Gaynon

Every time you move, you hear doors snapping shut in your brain.

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craft
advice • teaching • interviews

“A Quarter Past Three”  © Christopher Woods; used by permission
Getting Beyond “Someday I’ll Write”

Theme Essay by Steve Adams

Don’t worry about the expectations you imagine others have; play with the mud you’ve found, like a child.

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stories
fiction • memoir • writer's life

© Soulfull; Creative Commons license
All the Things the Mohawk Stole

Flash Nonfiction by Tracy Roberson-Woolard

By the time the last clip of hair fluttered to the floor, he was a teenager.

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poetry
featured poets • poetry spotlights

"New York" © Michael Connors
Alicia Ostriker: Poem

TW Poetry Spotlight

You are an island, a granite crust on a black platter of rivers...

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hot topics
from adoption to writerly sins...

An Unexpected Hero’s Journey

TW Column by Steven Lewis

Yet, don’t think for a moment that we five were not swept along in the undeniable currents that carried Neil beyond himself.

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