Fall 2020: TW at Ten

"The Way Home" © Patricia Joynes; used by permission]

Happy Tenth Anniversary, Talking Writing! (2010–2020)

Yet that’s the task: to understand it’s your choice. Nothing else is given. Rump parked in chair, hands poised over paper or keyboard: the only sanctuary, the only solace, the only control; the place where one feels purposeful, defined, alive.

—from “You’ve Made It”

New pieces will appear on the Table of Contents as they
publish throughout the issue cycle.

Personal Stories

The Balance Beam by Scott Fleming

Receipts by Lloyd Sy

The Guy Who Hated Running by Aaron Giddings

The Familiar by Laura Sergeant

Magic Smells Like Chicory Root by Marjorie Hakala

BMX Racers on My Wall by Yi Shun Lai

Balcony by Mark Brazaitis

White People by Kent Jacobson

Writer's Life

Dear Writers During Hard Times by Martha Nichols

You’ve Made It by Joan Frank

Elegy for a Curbside Poet by Khalil Elayan

A Menagerie of Writing Possibilities by Ronald J. Pelias

First-Person Reports

It’s Your Fault, Chicago by H Jonathan Klijn

Writing and Faith

A Reasonable Confusion by Don Delo

Dropping Ashes by Bonnie Neubauer

Translations

Roads Not Changed by the Feet of Walkers by Zizi Shosha

Sips of Light by Juana Rosa Pita

Interviews

Talking Flash Nonfiction with Brevity by Dinty W. Moore

Art

Darling Nikki by Alicia Augeri

Alchemy of the Mind by James Notarianni

Sundown by Troy Wandzel

Poetry Spotlight

Narrow Negotiations by Rusty Morrison

The Land of Innocence by Alan King

Frontier: A Definition by Iris Jamahl Dunkle

Adrift by David Meischen

Exuberant Pink by JP Howard

Therapy by Ellen McGrath Smith

Musings From a Math Woman by JoAnne Growney

Lunes During This Pandemic by Amy Uyematsu

Corona Archive #3: Day by Sheila Black

Catbird by Lesley Wheeler

Zinnia Becomes First Flower to Bloom on Space Station by Alice Major

Genre Borders

My Weird Music by John Vogel

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