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A Conversation with Melanie Brooks

I first met Melanie Brooks, author of Writing Hard Stories: Celebrated Memoirists Who Shaped Art from Trauma, at The Iota Short Prose Conference in the..

Interview

An Interview with Bud Smith

Bud Smith is the author of several books of fiction and most recently, a memoir, WORK, now out from CCM Press. WORK is a collection..

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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..

Review

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”..