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media debate • books • movies

"The Devil Extras" © Christine Mahler; Creative Commons license
Dear Rupert Murdoch (and Mark Zuckerberg)

Open Letter by Jeremiah Horrigan

As I’ve learned the hard way, Mr. Murdoch, you weren’t the worst thing to happen to me or journalism.

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inspiration
why I write • faith • visual art

"Stones" © Rachel Kramer; Creative Commons license
In Search of Small Stones

Theme Essay by Carla M. Wilson

Happy holidays from Talking Writing! As a gift to yourself, try the writerly 'New Year's Challenge' offered with this piece.

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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

“Blanket Peek” © Evan Long; Creative Commons license
Princess Hair

Flash Nonfiction by Kira Venturini

I’ll put her hair in pigtails, fishtails, French braids, waterfall braids, Dutch braids—whatever she wants.

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poetry
featured poets • poetry spotlights

“Himalayas (2)” © Janel Houton; used by permission
Pluto’s Heart

Poem by Alice Major

The heart is a crater, a cardiac whack from an accidental asteroid on its selfish passage.

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hot topics
from adoption to writerly sins...

"A Bit of 'Car Bored'" © Mister G.C.; Creative Commons license
Dispatches from the Land of Well

Personal Essay by Jamie Passaro

I can go out to a restaurant and no longer think the people at the next table are sending me messages in their sentences.

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