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Writing in a Crisis

Apr 20, 2020

TW Contributors Respond to the Global Pandemic

It makes no sense to close yourself off from others now. I receive a joke, laugh my head off, pass it on. If it's not in a language that the other person knows, I translate it.

Writing and Faith, Illness, Transitions | Read More

Frasier 2099

Dec 09, 2019

Poem by Shaw Patton

It’s been so long that laugh tracks seem fresh again.

Featured Poetry, Nature, Transitions | Read More

Isolation Hospital

Dec 02, 2019

Flash Essay by Kenneth Michael Stewart

It’s not the spasms or pain I remember, only the damp, hot, itchy, smelly strips of wool.

Memoir, Illness, Transitions | Read More

Let It Rain

Nov 18, 2019

Essay by Derick B. Donahoe

We didn’t realize the degree to which irrigation saturated our lives until our first trip to the Oregon coast.

Nature, Transitions, Politics of Place | Read More

Blocked: A Day-Old Memoir

Oct 28, 2019

Essay by Gina Hanson

I like first-person headshots possibly more than I like writing.

Writer's Life, Distraction, Transitions | Read More