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media debate • books • movies

Ursula K. Le Guin © 2014 Jack Liu; photo by Jack Liu and used with permission
My Favorite Misfit: Ursula K. Le Guin

Essay by Martha Nichols

Rather than walking the road back to my teenage obsession with science fiction, I’ve realized what I owe her as a journalist and teacher.

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inspiration
why I write • faith • visual art

"The Renovation of the Left Wing" © Josep Serra; used by permission only
The Renovation of the Left Wing

Animations by Josep Serra

...and the market dances while the music is playing.

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craft
advice • teaching • interviews

What’s a Creative Writing Program Good For?

Book Review by Fred Setterberg

More than a few graduates do recollect the Workshop’s warts: episodes of cutthroat competition, the classroom’s sexual jungle.

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stories
fiction • memoir • writer's life

“Cluster Series” © Troy Wandzel; used by permission
Magic Smells Like Chicory Root

Essay by Marjorie Hakala

The nice thing about magic, from what I could tell as a young reader, was that it gave such an order to existence.

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poetry
featured poets • poetry spotlights

"Backing the Blue" © Staff Sgt. Susan L. Davis, U.S. Air Force photo; Public Domain
Faculty Development Workshop

Poem by Julia Lisella

When should we run? After we have locked the door?

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hot topics
from adoption to writerly sins...

"A Bit of 'Car Bored'" © Mister G.C.; Creative Commons license
Dispatches from the Land of Well

Personal Essay by Jamie Passaro

I can go out to a restaurant and no longer think the people at the next table are sending me messages in their sentences.

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