Talking Writing Magazine

Free Speech and Grassroots Writing

TW Column by Martha Nichols

I sometimes forget that the most effective creative writing has nothing to do with schooling or publishing.

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.

My Place in Line

Poem by Lucy M. Logsdon

The dying have more important things to attend to: like dying.

Can a Woman Make a Joke?

TW Column by Emily Toth

Women are more apt to tell drawn-out stories, with caresses and tweaks.

Self-Portrait at Five

Three Poems by Louisa Howerow

What stays. Stone barracks, a garret room, a too-high window.

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