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You Should Do This Thing You Can’t

I had just walked into Worries of the Poet, Tools of the Essayist, a pre-conference session facilitated by essayist Randon Billings Noble and poet Marshall..
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A Friend for Life

As the Tom Delaney song goes, “everybody wants to go to heaven…. but nobody wants to die.” Laura Pritchett is no exception. In fact, a..
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Writers at Work

TRUE editor, Dina Relles, asked several nonfiction writers about their working and writing lives. Below is a composite of their thoughtful, varied answers—a collage of..
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Everyone should go to Live Lit Events

Who should go to storytelling—or “live lit”—events? Humans should. Sure, many in the audience are writers like myself, who have been on both sides of..
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Writing My Truth

My son is doing that thing with his fingers. He’s done it his whole life whenever something makes him anxious—the top of his pointer finger..
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Micro-Change

Over the last three months, TRUE called for micro-essays that recounted conversations that bridged two opposing view points. Sharing a true story requires courage.This “BRIDGES”..
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A Work in Progress

It’s 3 a.m., my witching hour. Miss K, my therapist, calls it the “common hour” because apparently so many people are awake at this time..
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off with the truth

Book Sellers keep asking me how old I am. They cup my elbows in their bony lady fingers and whisper, can I ask you a..
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The Book Doctor

This spring, I sent the vomit draft of my memoir to what I will call a “Book Doctor.” A trained specialist who came highly recommended...
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Yes All Afghan Women

Free Women Writers is a non-profit, non-partisan, and all-volunteer collective of writers, students, and activists based in Afghanistan and the diaspora, all working for a more..