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Putting Pen to Page
19 September 2019 on Blog, Nonfiction, StorystormSometimes, the most difficult part of writing is simply getting yourself to write. It’s easy to get distracted or overwhelmed by “real life,” to tell yourself that you’ll start working...
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“Crushes” by April Vazquez
03 May 2019 on NonfictionHow old were you when you had your first crush? you ask me out of the blue as I lean over the table, clearing the supper dishes. We’re alone, your...
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Being Around People Who Get It
19 April 2019 on Blog, Nonfiction, StorystormEn route to the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference, I ran into a writer at the airport who I knew from my past life as a newspaper reporter....
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“Missing in Action” by S.C. Beckner
29 March 2019 on NonfictionIt was somewhere in the mountains of Afghanistan that I was no longer “Mom,” but now “Momma.” At some point while Joshua was carrying ninety plus pounds of radio gear...
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“This Ragged Cat is Not My Heart” by Charlotte Gullick
22 February 2019 on NonfictionBanjo, the cat, looks rough. Thinner. No, too thin. Maroon inner eye sockets that take up more space each day. I hold him while I look at his litter mate,...
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The Writer’s Hot Seat: Keith O’Brien
22 February 2019 on Blog, Nonfiction, The Writer's Hot SeatKeith O’Brien’s bestselling 2018 release, Fly Girls, received rave reviews from the likes of The Wall Street Journal, Kirkus Reviews and Publisher’s Weekly, among many others, and was listed as...
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What Do We Look For in Nonfiction Submissions?
01 February 2019 on Nonfiction, StorystormWe don’t read creative nonfiction just to be informed — we also want to be moved. All our readers have wonderfully distinct perspectives, and all are moved by different elements...
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“Objects and Bones” by Maggie Montague
14 December 2018 on NonfictionBy the time our bags were packed and our dogs hoisted into the van, ash had started to fall around us. The gray flecks covering the green grass were the...
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“Leaning Into the Rocks” by Pamela Galbreath
16 November 2018 on NonfictionComets. Powerful, turbulent. Looming, in chilling silence. It is difficult to think of them as ice and gas. Easier for me to think of them as massive rocks set ablaze...
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The Writer’s Hot Seat: Kim Adrian
09 November 2018 on Nonfiction, The Writer's Hot SeatKim Adrian is the author of The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet, a memoir that David Shields calls “a stunning merger of form and content,” and Sock, which is part of Bloomsbury’s Object Lessons Series and...
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Small & Large
26 October 2018 on Blog, Nonfiction, StorystormI like Small. Always have. Not because of my height, which is average. Not because of my scope, which, I like to think, is Large. But because Small, in terms...
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“Good Neighbors” by Theresa Starkey
12 October 2018 on Blog, NonfictionMy mother and I lived in a tiny wood panel house shaped like a squat box. We had five sets of neighbors. The family to the left of us had...
