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media debate • books • movies

Adoption, Light and Dark

Book Review by David Biddle

Greene's memoir is alluring, almost like a reality TV show where you care about the characters.

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inspiration
why I write • faith • visual art

"The Glinters Underwater" © Aurora Chisté
Entrepreneurs Under the Water

Image Essay by Aurora Chisté

Water represents a discomfort zone for most people—a place where entrepreneurs and creative artists live.

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craft
advice • teaching • interviews

What Students Need: a BS Detector

TW Opinion by Lorraine Berry

Here’s what I see each semester when I look out at the crop of new faces: terror.

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stories
fiction • memoir • writer's life

The Best of Brevity (book cover detail)
Talking Flash Nonfiction with Brevity

Interview by Dinty W. Moore

The flash form often invites me to use what I call a communal or a collective voice.

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poetry
featured poets • poetry spotlights

“Broken Piano Keys” © Matthew T Rader; Creative Commons license
Floating and Rising in Federal Setting Level Four

Poetry by Mary Jo Robinson-Jamison

Sound like flesh warms the back of our necks, fills that space between vertebrae and skull.

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Freeing a Life at Chinese New Year

Personal Essay by Li Min Mo

Fog obscured the houses. The scrawny, shaven-head rickshaw man sighed and hummed with the pedaling noise.

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