What I’ve Come So Far to Tell Them
January 25, 2016Theme Essay by Robin McCarthy
I understood the blank stares and raw anguish when I asked those students about their homes.
Talking Writing Magazine
How I Learned to Love the Void
December 28, 2015Theme 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.
Purple Velour and Other Writing Rituals
December 21, 2015TW Column by Emily Toth
If I do things just right, the terror of the empty page won’t rise up and engulf me.
Doing Somersaults
December 14, 2015Theme Essay by Laura J. Wolfe
Words have the power to bless or curse, whether they’re spoken, written, or thought.
Life on Other Planets
December 9, 2015Flash Nonfiction by Julie Jeanell Leung
As a child, whenever I walked to school in the rain, the earthworms frightened me.
My Mother’s Mantra
December 7, 2015Flash Nonfiction by Nicole Simonsen
I was, at that point in my life, an authority on nothing, except maybe seizures.
An Outsider's Faith
November 30, 2015Theme Essay by Anjali Mitter Duva
Even as I created these characters, I wondered if I had the authority to portray their beliefs.
