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At Sea: Transform Your Writing and Your Process By Allison K Williams I’ve attended many writing conferences, each inspirational in their own way. The behemoth of AWP, with scholarly panels and hundreds of small publishers on the convention floor, with readings in every local bar, every night. The warm, welcoming Hippocamp, where Mary Karr, Dinty W. Moore, and other nonfiction notables gave not […]
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Chill Subs Community Favorites Best Lit Mag Awards: Celebrate your Faves including the Blog—Vote Now! We’ve long admired the user-friendly, ultra-hip platform the folks at Chill Subs have built to demystify the lit mag submission process and help writers get their work published. And we are impressed with how they continue to innovate, regularly adding free options to support the writing community. Now, the folks at Chills Subs are giving […]
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The Craft of Flash Nonfiction: A Brevity Blog Round Up By Allison K Williams Brevity magazine and The Brevity Blog: two glorious, symbiotic creatures. Not so much shark and lamprey as Spike and Chester: a powerful literary bulldog and an eager terrier ready to explore the world of words. One great benefit of our partnership is peeking behind the curtain—Brevity authors writing for the Blog […]
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Essays in Belonging: Baby Owls, Bobtail Squid, and the Power of Asking 100 Questions “I’ve learned my books aren’t done when I answer question, it’s when I’m asking a new and much better question than when I started.” In her latest book, Held, Kathryn Nuernberger makes brilliant use of the flash nonfiction form to provide meticulously researched yet deeply personal stories, a rare blending of the lyric essay with […]
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Second Draft: How Dramatic Structure Powers Revision By Allison K Williams Maybe you rushed out a first draft in one glorious November. Maybe you’ve been slowly pecking away for 10 years or more. Somehow, you’ve made it to “The End.” But you know it’s not done yet. In fact, you’re not even sure what done will look like. Your initial inspiration still […]
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