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media debate • books • movies

No One Is Coming to Save Us (Except Us)

A Call to Action by Martha Nichols

Don’t let the Court’s decision to overturn Roe—or the findings of the January 6 hearings—or the continuing disaster of climate change—make you give up.

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inspiration
why I write • faith • visual art

“Silence” © Sean MacEntee; Creative Commons license
Technology, the Snake in My Garden

Theme Essay by Wm. Anthony Connolly

I developed my own online platform—until six months in, I felt as if I’d swallowed poison.

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advice • teaching • interviews

Ben Purkert © Siddhartha Sinha; used by permission
Ben Purkert: Sinister, Brutal, and Honest

TW Interview by David Cameron

Whoever is holding the book is the beloved in some sense.

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stories
fiction • memoir • writer's life

Ancient Greek Kylix; Public Domain
Deaf Uncle

TW Prizewinning Flash Fiction by Charlotte M. Porter

His father, Ronald “Beau” Rutledge, III, pronounced coin like co-win although he didn’t care a fig for teamwork.

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poetry
featured poets • poetry spotlights

Emily Dickinson, Zombie

Theme Essay by Martha Nichols

Those who believe the fey little spinster never took off her ghostly white dress may require smelling salts.

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hot topics
from adoption to writerly sins...

Terry Tempest Williams: “Silence Is Where We Locate Our Voice”

TW Interview by Lorraine Berry

All a writer really has is time. Time to think. Time to read. Time to write.

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