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media debate • books • movies

Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So book cover detail
Why Going Crazy Isn't Just a Good Story

Theme Essay by Martha Nichols

Having a famous parent is a leg up to nowhere. It made sense to people that Kurt Vonnegut’s son would have mental health problems.

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inspiration
why I write • faith • visual art

Rebecca Sugar Comic (panel 6) © Mercury-Marvin Sunderland; used by permission
My Meeting with Rebecca Sugar

Comic Feature by Mercury-Marvin Sunderland

Art school helps, but stubbornness and passion for learning are vital.

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craft
advice • teaching • interviews

The Truth About the Slush Pile

Theme Essay by Wendy Glaas

Even small agencies are inundated by the river of junk that streams through their doors—and there's often little that's new and different.

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stories
fiction • memoir • writer's life

Singed by the Flames

Theme Essay by Jeremiah Horrigan

It’s easy to spot hypocrisy in others, not so easy to spot it in oneself.

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poetry
featured poets • poetry spotlights

"Pacific Ocean from Space" © blueforce4116; Creative Commons license
Ellen McGrath Smith: Two Poems

TW Poetry Spotlight

I'm a dot connected to dots across the earth. Technology can trace the lines we used to just imagine.

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hot topics
from adoption to writerly sins...

Porcelain Bones

TW Column by Judith A. Ross

I’d never witness her body’s natural aging process—her bones becoming brittle, her hair turning white.

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