Talking Writing Magazine

How I Learned to Love the Void

Theme Essay by Marlene Adelstein

It felt like being on a ledge, with vast emptiness below my feet. I wasn't writing—but I wasn't not writing.

Doing Somersaults

Theme Essay by Laura J. Wolfe

Words have the power to bless or curse, whether they’re spoken, written, or thought.

Life on Other Planets

Flash Nonfiction by Julie Jeanell Leung

As a child, whenever I walked to school in the rain, the earthworms frightened me.

My Mother’s Mantra

Flash Nonfiction by Nicole Simonsen

I was, at that point in my life, an authority on nothing, except maybe seizures.

An Outsider's Faith

Theme Essay by Anjali Mitter Duva

Even as I created these characters, I wondered if I had the authority to portray their beliefs.

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