Talking Writing Magazine

No Trespassing

Essay by Ellen Prentiss Campbell

I was nervous. Would she in some way feel that I had overstepped the bounds, appropriated her story?

Church Pew in Transit

Flash Nonfiction by Laura Page

The boy’s pulse listed as he helped me learn the jerk of the clutch.

How to Bury the Dead

Essay by Samantha Leigh Miller

Writing has saved my life on more than one occasion, although I didn’t realize it at the time.

My Postcards to a Dead Author

Essay by Kelcey Parker Ervick

I was the biographer of one woman, but I was also writing my own life.

Grace Marie Grafton: Poem

TW Featured Poetry

Mother be forgotten, buffalo meat cut to strips to dry. The sun.

Moving Through a Country Is Never Done Quickly

Hybrid Poetry by Sue Landers

the priests—told the neighbors not—to sell their houses—told the white neighbors—not to sell their houses to black people—that to do so would be a beginning of an end

Words to Light the Way

Theme Essay by Wendy Brown-Báez

When my youngest son died by his own hand, my life shattered, and my faith crumbled.

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